Example sentences of "it some [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Was it some trick of the light ? |
2 | Driving through fog on the M25 , listening to yet another radio programme about the recession , it is difficult to imagine that there might be light at the end of the tunnel ; but spring is on its way , and I hope it will bring with it some sign of the long-promised upturn in the economy . |
3 | At a time when product design has lost its way , the gallery fails to provide a proper historical context that might give it some sense of direction . |
4 | To suggest that there is an interested and informed big brother , on whom one side could lean , to give it some advantage over the other , is only to prolong the agony . |
5 | Few managers admit that boredom is a threat to the job but equally few would deny that being part of a pilot scheme or of being part of a trial run of new development can carry with it some air of excitement . |
6 | To summarise , the problem was to build a machine that could examine enough positions in three minutes to give it some protection against the clumsiness of its evaluation functions . |
7 | At 2 p.m. , rather than face more questions from the femme ménage , she ladled the food that had been left for her to eat into one bowl and carried it some way down the hill to a place where she knew it would be picked up by stray dogs and cats . |
8 | This put it some way below soccer hooliganism , which 75 per cent thought was wrong , and the use of soft drugs such as cannabis ( 60 per cent ) . |
9 | To overcome it some look upon their own experience and try to offer its essential characteristics to others . |
10 | Was it some kind of ‘ leak ’ ? |
11 | But if you 're religiously inclined , then clearly the universe looks a bit different , because the universe has a creator , and having a creator gives it some kind of meaning . |
12 | Is it some aspect of your work or your life that is getting out of control ? |
13 | The inroad of foreign capital always means for it some loss of independence , and it has nothing to gain by agreement among competing Empires … |
14 | It could be useful to remind Stuart Baxter of it some time in the future . |
15 | Not only did she need Vitor 's goodwill now , but she could need it some time in the future ; so turning him into an outright no-holds-barred enemy was shortsighted … and potentially dangerous . |
16 | All this gives it some importance in bringing the workforce to acceptance of the new work disciplines of the industrial revolution . |
17 | ‘ Is it some sort of insurance policy ? ’ |
18 | Is it some sort of extra-wise one , or something . ’ |
19 | Is it some sort of reference to your own noble persistence in trying to restore our marriage ? |
20 | Marriage , I assume , carries with it some sort of carte blanche for endless promiscuity — and a dispensation from the Pope . |
21 | Was it some sort of ruse or what ? |
22 | Is it some sort of or something ? |
23 | It 'll give it some form of protection which we have n't got round to doing the erm oh |
24 | Was it some insensitivity in his nature that had failed to respond to the nuances of the relationship , some obtuseness of perception that had prevented him from seeing , as it still prevented him from understanding ? |