Example sentences of "be a [noun] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mind , I can always claim to have had running water at Low Birk Hatt but it did happen to be a stream some way down the meadow . |
| 2 | It 's a pity some of the up and coming players do n't follow Martina 's example and bit a bit more cheerful on court . |
| 3 | That 's a making some of them fourteen feet long now . |
| 4 | It is a pity some of the professionals were not there learning alongside them : back on the South Bank a full-scale festival of Canadian music is running all week , but its profile has barely risen to the Plimsoll line . |
| 5 | It is a pity some of those guys do not get up and learn to do commerce in the way that the rest of the world has to and put to advantage their expensive educations which are paid for out of general taxes . ’ |
| 6 | The motion itself is a compromise some on my side have said it 's too much of a compromise they 've said you 're tr trying to be all things to all people . |
| 7 | It is a change some make in private . |
| 8 | This is not as wild a question as you might suppose in a country where every Buddhist is a monk some time in their lives , and can slip into the habit again at any time . |
| 9 | It is impossible to think of Aragorn as irretrievably damned for his ignorance of Christianity ( though it is a view some have tried to foist on Beowulf ) . |
| 10 | I do n't want to ‘ politicize ’ the homeless in a way that makes them look like the front-line infantry fighting a barbaric government , which is a line some people have taken , simply because when you 're out there , it just is n't like that . |
| 11 | Given that the end product is a pension some time in the future , then the majority of assets are viewed as long term . |
| 12 | When I was a schoolgirl some friends took me on to a farm and I used to watch the milking and think what a grand life it was , so healthy , not at all like life in the pits and the factories . |
| 13 | There was a case some time ago where a vet accidentally injected himself with some . |
| 14 | The road ran straight ahead of us until it disappeared in the mist , except that at the man 's feet it was gone and there was a gap some fifty metres or so wide through which a brown torrent ran so high and in such furious waves that it almost lipped the broken macadam where the road had been swept away . |