Example sentences of "be [adj] [adv] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Theseus 's ship , Aeolus , and the abandoned Ariadne — these too are absent , or at least they are present only in some later wish for an imaginative reconstruction , |
| 2 | Failure on such a scale can be attributable only to some major underlying cause , which has stubbornly defied discovery , or has been equally stubbornly kept hidden by those who , whilst being aware of it , are interested only in its continued existence . |
| 3 | It would be dangerous enough with some space and several tablecloths between their nearly naked bodies , but if he touched her she knew she would be lost . |
| 4 | This may seem an attractive proposition , but in fact it is rather frightening — because it would be available only to some of us . |
| 5 | Nor did he say that he thought it was unlikely , on the whole , that the Bishop would sack a perfectly competent administrator who happened not to be smarmy enough to some thruster from the Scottish lowlands . |
| 6 | The random nature of turbulent motion gives a diffusive action ; two fluid particles that happen to be close together at some instant are likely to be much further apart at any later time . |
| 7 | A small number of teaching assistantships and teaching supplements are available annually in some Faculties . |
| 8 | The other thing that 's been done , erm , and has been ongoing now for some months without too much success , but things seem to be moving a little bit , at least we 're told they are , is that I I pressed for , not really a presentation but a technical meeting , I wanted to get there there product engineers |
| 9 | The idea that mind and body were separate yet in some sense connected has dominated European thought . |
| 10 | We were alone together in some prelapsarian grotto . |
| 11 | I 'm not being stuck away in some smelly old truck . ’ |
| 12 | In any scientific investigation , the extent to which an observed difference is due only to some deliberate perturbation ( internal validity ) and the extent to which such a difference reflects a real difference in the parent population ( external validity ) is dependent on avoidance of a variety of pitfalls . |
| 13 | It is possible too for some adopters to attempt to improve their self-image if they believe , perhaps subconsciously , that ‘ having a black child in the family confirms our self-worth because they are much less than we are ’ . |
| 14 | One difficulty is that whereas in London , London English is felt to be appropriate in nearly all situations , Creole is appropriate only in some of these . |
| 15 | So a range of behaviour is very important in influencing that we identify where we 're coming from and where the other party 's coming from as well , so that we can maybe begin to mould our behaviour and decide what is appropriate maybe on some occasions towards a passive actually gon na help us achieve for influence . |
| 16 | Most have interesting things to say , but why they appear in the order they do is explicable only on some deep theory of random numbers : the editors provide no justification for the selection or their order — or useful introductory remarks or guidelines . |
| 17 | Yet , owing to the intervention of many factors , the deliberate regulation of fertility by other than traditional means ( i.e. control by breast-feeding and post-partum abstinence ) is commonplace only in some of the economically more advanced countries . |
| 18 | Certainly schools will not be handling such retrieval techniques in the present economic circumstances for a long time yet ; though a service to teachers and educational researchers is offered in the United States ( and is available here in some libraries ) by the ERIC system , which provides micro-copies of research papers together with a tolerably thorough indexing system which can be computerized for quick search . |
| 19 | All I would say is that the principle of fairness , though concerned exclusively with the use of evidence at trial , is not susceptible to categorisation or classification and is wide enough in some circumstances to embrace the way in which , after the crime , evidence has been obtained from the accused . |
| 20 | The M-form is suitable only in some environments . |
| 21 | These poets have not been well-served even by some modern critics . |
| 22 | Like Christopher Gray [ q.v. ] , he bought some of the plants collected at Fulham Palace by Henry Compton , bishop of London [ q.v. ] , after the bishop 's death in 1713 , and by 1724 his stock was rich enough for some of his exotic trees and shrubs , including the moss rose , to be listed by Philip Miller [ q.v. ] in his Gardeners and Florists Dictionary ( 1724 ) . |
| 23 | She seemed as if only her outer shell were present , while the real Susan was far away in some secret world where no one could follow her . |
| 24 | It seemed that Britain was wealthy enough for some redistribution to be possible , as , arguably , it had not been in the 1830s , and that voluntary effort had achieved little in this respect . |