Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] be [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , they underestimate the amount of opposition there is from some groups of men to women getting good jobs . |
| 2 | The reminiscing continued — the deaths of friends , one man marching alone through the night , the terrible hard labour it was for some men to die , night marches from one safe house to another , the rain , the wet , the damp , the cold of waiting for an ambush in one place for hours . |
| 3 | In its grace , fire , and expressive fluency it was in some ways an important transition between the old Teutonic Bach style of the nineteenth century and what we expect now from the so-called authenticity movement . |
| 4 | But resistance to government reorganization was not simply based on self-interest ; what a person 's self-interest was , was defined by institutions and economic expectations , by a social framework which was to some extent traditional and entrenched . |
| 5 | The bible is considered to be inspired literature which is in some way normative for the religion . |
| 6 | If you are caring for an elderly parent who is at some stage of grieving for a lost partner , whether she is experiencing the shattering despair that follows soon after bereavement , or the long sad loneliness and feeling of deprivation characteristic of its later stages , her deepest need will be for your practical and emotional support during her period of sorrow and adjustment . |
| 7 | One way of conceiving of this is that in any period there are in some islands a greater than average number of demanders , and in others a smaller number than average . |
| 8 | What humbug it is for some Opposition Members to say that one should buy British and then travel around in foreign cars . |
| 9 | Crossing the hind part of the cranium there is in some insects an occipital suture . |
| 10 | This presupposes that a person ( a ) is now conscious of the self he is now ; ( b ) is now conscious of the self he was at some time in the past ; and ( c ) can discern the identity of the self he is now and the self he was at some time in the past . |
| 11 | This presupposes that a person ( a ) is now conscious of the self he is now ; ( b ) is now conscious of the self he was at some time in the past ; and ( c ) can discern the identity of the self he is now and the self he was at some time in the past . |
| 12 | The second group of experiments examine how face recognition is affected by the context in which a face is presented , and allow a comparison with contextual effects observed in studies of word recognition , a comparison which is of some theoretical interest . |
| 13 | Such matters are to a great extent determined conventionally by syntax , and become noticeably expressive only when a writer makes a graphological choice which is to some degree marked or unconventional , such as a deliberate misspelling . |
| 14 | The other dimension , he argues , is found in an everyday life which was to some extent in harmony with the market economy — in consumption , in fashion and especially in changing forms of plebeian drinking . |
| 15 | Conversations with both field and headquarters staff revealed a tendency to identify certain area offices and certain area men with a particular approach to negotiation and enforcement : ‘ the people at X office ’ , ‘ the officers in Y area ’ , or ‘ Eddie Osborne 's people ’ describe in agency language an enforcement style which was in some way distinctive to the area . |
| 16 | An alternative to both monism and dualism which is in some ways more enlightening than either is the approach which may fittingly be called stylistic PLURALISM . |
| 17 | And from previous experience it was for some no longer a matter of automatic belief when Hitler declared that ‘ the Bolshevik hordes … will be smashed into oblivion by us in the coming summer ’ . |
| 18 | There are arguments about whether we have some ‘ primordial ’ sense of the world which is in some way independent of the symbol systems we use , or to what extent our visual or aural perceptions of painting or music depend on or are penetrated by the knowledge we have through such systems . |
| 19 | However , there is a distinction that can be made within ‘ expected ’ status which is of some significance in lexical semantics . |
| 20 | The dissociation of the Muftilik from a kadilik is thus important in that it seems to represent the further definition of a chiefly " religious ' authority , the representative of the more spiritual aspect of the Seriat as opposed to its practical application which was to some degree tainted , in the eyes of the pious , by its close association with secular government . |
| 21 | Many managerial positions involve the employee being both a representative of the capitalist and a worker who is in some degree exploited . |
| 22 | Yeah but not but it 's not for school it 's for some people outside school , it 's a sort of |
| 23 | The user of the vehicle is the owner of the vehicle or the person in whose possession it is under some hiring or leasing agreement ; this is often not the driver himself but the driver 's employer or principal . |
| 24 | She had the impression she was on some kind of rollercoaster ride , exhilarating but inherently dangerous . |
| 25 | One time we were on some stunt on the airfield and the people were encroaching on the ground and we were told to push them back . |
| 26 | Well , this morning it 's our great pleasure to welcome three visitors to the session , one of whom I 'm not entirely sure is welcome because I understand that in fact he 's in some way a slight opposition in that he runs his own training course . |