Example sentences of "[pron] [is] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stig makes a full recovery which is some compensation . |
| 2 | The Monopolies and Mergers Commission is currently investigating the pre-tax price of cars , which is some 30% higher in Britain than in , say , Belgium . |
| 3 | A reservoir had to be constructed to drive the wheel , which is some distance away from the pump shaft . |
| 4 | Peter Curd , a spokesman for NIREX said this week that ‘ preliminary approaches ’ had been made to ICI about the mine , which is some 300 m deep . |
| 5 | The Department will be connected via a private telephone line to the processing units in the computer room which is some half a mile distant . |
| 6 | I mean , John , who was a local builder , sold a house a day for five years , which is some building . |
| 7 | 639 to ‘ this day ’ , that is , Adomnán 's time of writing , c . 700 , which is some time after the power of the northern Angles beyond the Forth had been shattered at Nechtanesmere in 685 , and the reference is rather to the failure of the kings of Scottish Dál Riata to regain control of Irish Dál Riata in Antrim . |
| 8 | In the first half of 1991 it was £2.1 billion , which is some 30 per cent . |
| 9 | I 'm using ‘ happy ’ in one specific turn of phrase , which is some kind of extension of its basic meaning . ’ |
| 10 | Where a word used in a lease has multiple meanings , one of which is its ordinary meaning and the other of which is some technical meaning , there must be some objective evidence that the parties intended the technical meaning to be adopted , otherwise the word will be construed in its ordinary sense ( Holt & Co v Collyer ( 1881 ) 16 ChD 719 ) . |
| 11 | The client will not necessarily understand , particularly a first-time buyer , that the deposit has to be paid on exchange of contracts , which is some time before the mortgage advance becomes available . |
| 12 | Now turning to the , the the good news and that is that the Lincolnshire Flood Defence Committee was set to increase after ninety-four , five which is some twenty per cent below the normal three-four level . |
| 13 | What we do need is the equivalent of what we 've got in the documents which I 've given to you which is some sort of allowance for every bit of control of the thing . |
| 14 | This is one of the reasons why we are saying to the government that they should consider what our competitor countries do , which is some form of temporary credit management ; some form of temporary credit controls to squeeze off this surge in demand before it really gets going and pushes inflation up again . |
| 15 | She says she 's some sort of detective . |
| 16 | ‘ Maybe she 's some kind of nut . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ You think she 's some kind of idiot ? ’ |
| 18 | Just because she 's read some trashy paperback she thinks she 's some kind of expert on the modus operandi . |
| 19 | Oh I 'm just sitting here having had a long , well erm I I 've just had a , a chat with Gillian who erm rang me up and we were on the phone for about half an hour I suppose , she 's some lucky girl ! |
| 20 | No , she jumped on my bed and when she gets on top of you she thinks she 's some little baby . |
| 21 | when we played CBGB 's this guy who 's some sort of junior manager for Marvel came up afterwards and said he really liked the band and that it was a shit thing they sued us . ’ |
| 22 | who 's some of that for ? |
| 23 | Mr Blair-Gould said : ‘ The prosecution clearly suggest … that she is some kind of dreadful rebel on a crusade against censorship . ’ |
| 24 | No one wants to feel owned by another person , and perhaps what Matthew needs from you is some breathing space , some freedom , a demonstration of trust in him . ’ |
| 25 | planning for you but what I can show you is some sketches which the gentleman who bought the plot at Grey Lane brought to show me asked my opinion . |
| 26 | That in itself is some indication of the influence his life and work still bring to bear — and , perhaps , an equal indication of the lack of progress which makes it still necessary . |
| 27 | Even if this wo n't always happen , it will certainly happen often enough for the range of my knowledge to be considerably reduced , and this itself is some sort of an objection . |
| 28 | That itself is some forty million pounds below the association of Welsh counties assessment of what is actually needed to meet the needs of the community and it is in any event not available for general spending . |
| 29 | One character remarks , ‘ everything is some kind of a plot , man ’ ’ , and the sentiment is echoed , though less cheerfully , by the novel 's main protagonist , an American intelligence officer called Tyrone Slothrop ( Pynchon 1975a : 603 ) . |
| 30 | One is an outright buyer , one is a partner , one is some other form of investor and one is for Kiam to stay put . ’ |