Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [be] some [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | particularly if you can supplement this and , and show how it erm fits into the way people discuss these issues , you know here 's some real talk , here 's some real quotes , you know , er stuff like that , it can look quite yeah , yeah , great . |
| 2 | Even if you become a great painter you end up being some rich man 's lackey , sponsored and dabbled with — if you 're lucky . |
| 3 | Nonetheless , there have latterly been some notable donations from individuals in Britain : like the Sainsbury brothers ' new wing for the National Gallery and the Clore Foundation 's for the Tate ; Terence Conran 's £7m for the establishment of the Design Museum in Docklands , and Paul Hamlyn 's cheap weeks for children at the Royal Opera House . |
| 4 | True , the FBI can help protect Arab-Americans : there have already been some scattered incidents of violence . |
| 5 | There have already been some 10,000 collisions between West and East German cars this year . |
| 6 | Setting this show and its problems aside , what we need generally is some fresh thinking and some fresh air . |
| 7 | But to imply , in however tentative a way , that there have not been some fundamental changes in the English experience of Ireland since Spenser 's day , helps on the one hand to re-energise the Renaissance texts by demonstrating their continuing cultural negotiations , but also curiously helps to valorise Spenser 's perspective . |
| 8 | OK , so the Prince and Princess of Wales may have separated , house prices might have plummeted and Luton Town have been relegated — but there have still been some fantastic technological and social advances in the past 12 months . |
| 9 | There have always been some old people who were influential and highly regarded , in contrast to the many others who were treated with ridicule , antagonism , or at best patronized as dependents . |
| 10 | There have also been some striking results from an Australian project which developed methods by which the students ( aged 15-16 ) took greater control of their own learning , including planning the lesson sequences and posing their own questions for enquiry . |
| 11 | Expressing the above statement in terms of functionals we have where is some functional to be determined . |
| 12 | To be sure , I have had to deal with various phenomena and minister to those who have experienced them , and there have certainly been some chilling moments , but in general a ghost would have to flay me alive with its chains before I raised an eyebrow at the possibility of its presence . |