Example sentences of "is [adv] [verb] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | The phase of confusion is strikingly illustrated in some metopes from a large Doric temple at Selinus in Sicily ( fig. 23 ) . |
| 2 | It is somewhat eased for some by the student loans system . |
| 3 | The value to the holder , apart from the intrinsic expertise developed , is only rewarded in some local education authorities where an extra scale point may be offered to an otherwise fully qualified teacher on successfully completing a Diploma course . |
| 4 | This vitally important point is apparently misunderstood by some of the philosophers who have , in recent years , taken an interest in the theory of natural selection . |
| 5 | The driver is a ribbon transducer , which , though rare in this country , is much favoured amongst some of the more exotic US manufacturers . |
| 6 | Medical advice is generally sought at some stage , but the action taken by general practitioners still seems to be suboptimal and shows considerable geographical variation . |
| 7 | A collectivity is thus endowed with some of the characteristics of an individual behaving according to motives , objectives , intentions and rational thought . |
| 8 | Once at Stonham the primary school pupils get off the bus leaving room downstairs which is soon filled by some of the people who have been sitting upstairs . |
| 9 | He is not engaged in some new and unnatural vice . |
| 10 | Is he aware that that drug is not grown on some poppy field in South America but that 98 per cent . |
| 11 | The effect is not observed in some renal and heart disorders ; then the rate of urine flow on lying down at night is greater than during the daytime and this will be diagnostically useful to the physician . |
| 12 | We need a government which is not afraid of playing its part , a government that is not clinging to some of the apparent certainties of the Cold War but one that is willing to step off the sidelines and help ensure that through co-operation between East and West we can move from the two old Europes to the one new Europe with stability . |
| 13 | The great majority of French fabliaux too are to be found in manuscripts that contain extensive collections of fabliaux , and other genres , reflecting a development in manuscript production of the thirteenth century that it is difficult to believe is not connected in some general way to the growth of scholarly " compilations " ( compilationes ) at the same time . |
| 14 | Bernier constantly contrasts Mughal India and seventeenth-century France : the Jumna compares favourably with the Loire , he thinks ; adultery is easier in Paris than it is in Delhi : ‘ in France it only excites merriment , but in this part of the world there are few instances where it is not followed by some dreadful and tragical catastrophe . ’ |
| 15 | However , in order to expose the nature of capitalism , Marx first had to show that capitalism is not based on some eternal immutable truth , as presented by economists , but is the product of a long history . |
| 16 | Denying the vote to children is not based on some false assumption about 10-year-olds ' political knowledge , nor to deny that they have interests , nor to protect them from the harm their votes might do . |
| 17 | If this mental scarring is not treated in some way , whether by hypnosis or some other means , then the effects will last literally for the whole of his life . |
| 18 | In such circumstances if the turnover of the reception centres is not apportioned in some way , the tenant will in effect pay double rent for the place at which the cleaning is carried out . |
| 19 | Firstly , the distinction between manual and non-manual work is not seen by some as an adequate way of distinguishing between classes . |
| 20 | It would be difficult to think of a linguistic topic which is not covered in some form , although I will admit to a passing irritation with the way in which my browsing ( and the book is eminently browsable ) was constantly interrupted by a brief listing of some exotic language-family . |
| 21 | With this mysterious absence of ‘ stain' goes a forgetting of grief ; though the Fellowship has just lost Gandalf in Moria , the fact is not mentioned for some twenty pages ( I , 350–70 ) , and indeed we are told that ‘ In winter here no heart could mourn for summer or for spring ’ . |
| 22 | Even the new name of Israel is not used for some time ( it reappears in 35.10 and thereafter in Genesis is used interchangeably with Jacob ) . |
| 23 | Quantification is usually taken for granted in social dialectology , but it is not used in some other branches of sociolinguistics ( for example , those researches that follow Gumperz 's model ) , and there can be disputes about whether or not it should be used in given instances . |
| 24 | It may be surprising , but when a cat brings a live mouse to her kittens — perhaps for them to first play with and then kill , or perhaps so that she can kill it while they watch — this is not considered by some experts to be a form of teaching . |
| 25 | The child who is cast in role as abbot of the cathedral is not identifying with some fictitious character called ‘ Abbot ’ , he is merely taking on an abbot 's function vis-à-vis the situation of being in charge of other people in the community , just as the football captain in a game is not playing a ‘ character ’ of a football captain , he is functioning in the required role of being in charge of his team . |
| 26 | Clearly there is a need in most towns for increased and improved shopping facilities and there is a danger that , if it is not provided in some form , there will be pressure for major developments outside town or on the outskirts . |
| 27 | But whatever difficulties attach to Bentham 's particular position , an ethical outlook which , like that of some more recent utilitarians , is not associated with some theory of human motivation is also somewhat unsatisfactory . |
| 28 | Professor Mark Roberts , speaking from the centre of the critical consensus , declared : ‘ It does n't issue from an understanding of reality which is not to be denied , it is not moulded by some controlling vision of things which is at the same time its raison d'être . ’ |
| 29 | It is interesting to note that stereo sound is already featured on some video recorders and camcorders , and it seems that it is only a matter of time before it becomes standard as for sound recorders . |
| 30 | I understand this is already done in some districts . |