Example sentences of "to be [adj] of some " in BNC.

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1 One can not be critical in the abstract : one has to be critical of some thing , And the act of criticism takes place in the context of standards .
2 She judged the first to be that of some official and wondered what such a one would be doing there at an hour now close to midnight .
3 Respondents are selected according to some sampling procedure to be representative of some group , collectivity , attribute or process .
4 However , the same has again been found to be true of some normal schizotypal individuals and , notably , the genetically related children of schizophrenics .
5 Like the term ‘ deindustrialization ’ , the term ‘ services ’ is open to a number of interpretations and it is important to be aware of some of the different uses of the term before turning to the question of whether Britain is or is not a service economy .
6 Being married to Brightman , he has said , has made it " much easier for performers to get in touch and feel they cart talk about their problems , and it 's a good thing for me to be aware of some of the problems on the other side of the theatre fence " .
7 What is perhaps more disturbing is that many existing IT specialists do not appear to be aware of some fundamental principles involved in designing reliable , " user-friendly " and " environment-friendly " information systems .
8 She took no notice , and I began to hate her , not because I was having to apologize — she looked so old and sad that I was genuinely sorry — but because she would n't listen and it was such a-terrible physical struggle for me to talk ; my mouth seemed to be full of some sickly , sticky stuff , like chewing-gum .
9 But you asked me to comment on potential weaknesses , and this is one area which you may consider to be worthy of some serious attention .
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