Example sentences of "it [be] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the poem progressed farther in the mind than on paper , and all that survives of it are some verse fragments describing the distant wail of swallows and seagulls , water dripping one Sunday from the miller 's wheel ( perhaps at Kilve ) , the snow blown curling from a wood ‘ like pillars of cottage smoke ’ , and a wild Quantock pony racing in the wind . |
| 2 | Could it be some sort of retribution for sending a 440k gif file last week ? |
| 3 | Might it be some form of … |
| 4 | Could it be some form of horse decoration . |
| 5 | He was studying it reverently , as if it were some breviary of tobacco . |
| 6 | Lying near it were some plates which had been washed and left to drain , and beside them stood the most delicate of porcelain cups . |
| 7 | But again the accent was on seniority : ‘ Commonly wee do not call any a yeoman till he be married , and have children , and as it were some authoritie among his neighbours ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They built a house , the Villa Eugénie , which eventually grew into the present Hôtel du Palais , a vast building close to the lush sands of the Grande Plage ( formerly known as the Plage tea Fous , because only the reckless , if not the insane , were thought likely to risk swimming there ) , very monumental and with a tricolour flying above it , as if it were some government department rather than merely a hotel . |
| 10 | No it were some spy . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | People often treat science as if it were some sort of ‘ forbidden country ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It 's some day it 's turned out . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's some master plan , that I 'm certain of . |
| 17 | It 's some hotel . |
| 18 | But I would say it 's some kind of tribesman . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 20 | I think it 's some kind of systems error . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ It 's some kind of plant ! ’ |
| 22 | I think deep down it 's some kind of fear , a fear of comparisons . |
| 23 | Harpo said , ‘ If you ask me , it 's some kind of contemporary sculpture . |
| 24 | It 's some kind of personal statement . |
| 25 | He says it 's some kind of sadist that carries out this kind of attack . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's some play about love he was in . |
| 27 | Oh Margaret had some the other day , she said do you want a bit of this cheese , it 's green , it 's some , it 's some green , I said I do n't want any of that |
| 28 | ‘ Some people tend to think it 's some faraway problem that will never come to anything , but it destroyed human decency before and it can again if we do n't stand up to it . |
| 29 | Even if it 's some idea like building a restaurant like a ship . |
| 30 | It 's manic , it 's evil , it 's some devil 's work . ’ |