Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It 's perhaps of some interest to us that erm these to great -isms , liberalism and nationalism I think we can see them as products of the French revolution .
2 ‘ Did you mention when you wrote that he is in with some Cockney riff-raff ? ’
3 It is only from some insistence , within some other social and cultural order , that signals should always be singular in dimension — indicating ‘ pure art ’ and the ‘ purely aesthetic ’ in manifestly specializing , and then both emphasizing and excluding , ways — that these historical and sociological complexities are resisted .
4 There you are , there 's enough for some Coke .
5 Beccaria 's appearance of humanity is perhaps to some extent due to the fact that , unlike Bentham , he often glossed over the darker implications of his arguments .
6 Finally , if different underlying forms of firm differ in efficiency and so in cost , this is obviously of some importance .
7 He 's away for some time .
8 It is thus with some trepidation that I say the cohabitation rule makes sense .
9 And there is still another way of understanding time , which is that when a mother gives birth , she is giving birth to time itself , to a ‘ life-time ’ , and she is thus in some sense beyond time itself .
10 The field anthropologist is thus in some respects a kind of cross-cultural private eye , relentlessly pursuing clues to lay bare the soul of his foreign hosts .
11 This again suggests that the right hemisphere is not without some word recognition ability .
12 The continuity thesis is not without some merit if carefully defined .
13 This is not without some justification .
14 This argument is not without some validity .
15 Sometimes a most carefully planned game structure is ineffective because it is not for some reason appropriate either to the material or to the particular class .
16 In ordinary parlance one might say that anyone who has been forcibly subjected to this offence has been raped ; the psychological effects are likely to be deep , and even if there is no risk of pregnancy ( as there is not from some rapes , since ejaculation is not part of the definition ) , there may be the risk of disease .
17 We can be well aware in the abstract of the horror , misery and emptiness of much of life , but is there any such thing as an intense imaginative vision of life , however pessimistic , which is not in some sense pleasing ?
18 The new image is already on some packaging and signs in the US .
19 This last sign , although not of diagnostic significance here , is nevertheless of some interest and we shall return to it , together with some other features of Hoccleve 's mental state , in Chapter 10 .
20 It 's not beyond some people in churches to lift a phone and get young people up .
21 It 's not beyond some people in churches to lift a phone and get young people up .
22 It 's not In some cases like erm the diagram you were doing about the two girls running , erm then the distance against time gradient will give you speed , give you velocity .
23 Many of us spend much of our working day slouched over office desks , typewriters , computers or other instruments , and our leisure time slumped in front of a television set , while the journey from home to work is usually by some sort of mechanized transport — often in cars which do little to improve our posture .
24 Secondly , the model implies that curriculum planning is always to some extent a contingent matter , in which there will be few across-the-board answers .
25 However , the situation is always to some extent fluid , and the dimensions of the disciplinary space may change , expanding here or contracting there , sometimes under pressure from a contiguous discipline .
26 It is probable that deliberate equivocation in respect of the intended sense of word forms is always to some extent odd .
27 Therefore , whereas the market participation of asset owners is always to some extent protected ( by the peculiar qualities of the assets possessed ) , the market activity of the entrepreneur is never protected in any way .
28 Whether Henry Eliot 's letter is still on some Home Office file or other among the seventeen miles of paper which Toynbee ( if I remember right ) calculated to comprise the total government documentation of the war , I do not know ; but some research worker may conceivably yet come upon it , and it would be interesting to learn whether it contained any apt comments .
29 The placement of tonic stress is still to some extent an unsolved mystery ; it is clear , though , that it is at least partly determined by the larger context ( linguistic and non-linguistic ) in which the tone-unit occurs .
30 That is still to some extent , erm though less true , I daresay , than it once was , but the mystique , I think , survives , does it not , Anne will tell us , in Whitehall , that these people bring erm who , who are essentially amateurs in matters of political science , sociology , international relations and diplomacy , bring a gentleman amateur 's omnicompetent wisdom .
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