Example sentences of "it [is] some [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I would say it 's some kind of tribesman . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Guess it 's some kind of indigenous British bird , huh ? ’ , suggested an American copy editor I worked with recently when he was checking the meaning of the term ‘ reggie-spotter ’ . |
| 3 | I think it 's some kind of systems error . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It 's some kind of plant ! ’ |
| 5 | I think deep down it 's some kind of fear , a fear of comparisons . |
| 6 | Harpo said , ‘ If you ask me , it 's some kind of contemporary sculpture . |
| 7 | It 's some kind of personal statement . |
| 8 | He says it 's some kind of sadist that carries out this kind of attack . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's some play about love he was in . |
| 10 | Even if it 's some idea like building a restaurant like a ship . |
| 11 | If it 's some notion of individuation which has nothing to do with the body , nothing to do with the soul and nothing to do , ultimately , with the intellect either . |
| 12 | But perhaps it 's some quirk in your nature , and you actually get a kick out of despising the women you get involved with ! ’ |
| 13 | ‘ It 's some friend of yours who 's responsible for man , is n't it ? ’ asks Michael , looking sideways at Howard . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's some distance beyond the village , by the stream . ’ |
| 15 | A horrible way of explaining it but er it 's some attempt at some some preciseness . |
| 16 | Or if it 's not being entertaining , coming away absolutely hating or loving it — as long as it 's some sort of reaction . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's some sort of kick , this work . |
| 18 | ‘ I think it 's some sort of demonstration , Moira , ’ replies a man with ‘ husband ’ written all over him . |
| 19 | ‘ They live right by the place the going-up jets go from and they think it 's some sort of magic place ! ’ he said . |
| 20 | I get the impression that it 's some sort of systematic research , maybe a response to a leak . |
| 21 | Er , well , that 's part of what 's on the spreadsheet , It 's some sort of diagram . |
| 22 | You 're lucky in a way that he 's there , and lucky , too , that he 's got his music and that it 's bringing him a name , for it 's some sort of compensation in the meantime , helping his waiting . ’ |
| 23 | It 's some sort of fraud all right . |
| 24 | Yeah it comes on , a comes on and then it shuts down so it 's some sort of shut down fault . |
| 25 | I suspect it 's er it 's it 's er it 's some sort of little office at a guess . |
| 26 | We have already seen how naturally the need to fit a certain number of half wavelengths into an interval leads to discreteness and it is some way of introducing a radical discreteness into mechanics which we are looking for . |
| 27 | Canetti 's great foe is death and his belief in the power of words to fight it is some kind of myth that motivates his pen . |
| 28 | We we tried to do as much as we could we drove from erm Colorado right the way round California up through Utah and stuff and so it is some parts of the desert are very boring . |
| 29 | When students come across it they assume it is some sort of technical language . |
| 30 | The depression on the ‘ blade ’ and the overall shape suggest to me that it is some sort of agricultural implement , such as a weeding paddle or potato lifter . |