Example sentences of "it [be] some [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could it be some sort of retribution for sending a 440k gif file last week ? |
| 2 | Might it be some form of … |
| 3 | Could it be some form of horse decoration . |
| 4 | He was studying it reverently , as if it were some breviary of tobacco . |
| 5 | Condensation is an epidemic on this estate and usually the tenants are blamed , as though it were some kind of social disease , not a structural defect . |
| 6 | The establishment was ringed with barbed wire , and guarded by men of the R.A.F. Regiment whose N.C.O.s kept discipline by threatening their men that misdemeanours would result in their being sent ‘ inside the Park ’ , as if it were some sort of madhouse . |
| 7 | Usually , one then treats one set of relations as problematic and.simply assumes the existence of the other , as if it were some sort of indeterminate background noise or , more contentiously , assigns truth to one and falsity to the other . |
| 8 | People often treat science as if it were some sort of ‘ forbidden country ’ . |
| 9 | It was disguised as if it were some form of regional assistance , whereas it was bailing out uneconomic , old industries which ought to have been modernised . |
| 10 | But I would say it 's some kind of tribesman . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 12 | I think it 's some kind of systems error . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ It 's some kind of plant ! ’ |
| 14 | I think deep down it 's some kind of fear , a fear of comparisons . |
| 15 | Harpo said , ‘ If you ask me , it 's some kind of contemporary sculpture . |
| 16 | It 's some kind of personal statement . |
| 17 | He says it 's some kind of sadist that carries out this kind of attack . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's some friend of yours who 's responsible for man , is n't it ? ’ asks Michael , looking sideways at Howard . |
| 20 | Or if it 's not being entertaining , coming away absolutely hating or loving it — as long as it 's some sort of reaction . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's some sort of kick , this work . |
| 22 | ‘ I think it 's some sort of demonstration , Moira , ’ replies a man with ‘ husband ’ written all over him . |
| 23 | ‘ They live right by the place the going-up jets go from and they think it 's some sort of magic place ! ’ he said . |
| 24 | I get the impression that it 's some sort of systematic research , maybe a response to a leak . |
| 25 | Er , well , that 's part of what 's on the spreadsheet , It 's some sort of diagram . |
| 26 | 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 . ’ |
| 27 | It 's some sort of fraud all right . |
| 28 | Yeah it comes on , a comes on and then it shuts down so it 's some sort of shut down fault . |
| 29 | I suspect it 's er it 's it 's er it 's some sort of little office at a guess . |
| 30 | 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 . |