Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [adv] [prep] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus we have to say of medieval popular drama that the sense of ritual ‘ presence ’ , of the kind still indicated by the formalized words and movements of the mass , has significantly changed , but may in some new combination of signals be still to some extent active , in ways that it is clearly -not in later forms and systems . |
| 2 | But if these men who had split into two parties were here for some heist or scam , they were being slow about it , for they sat calmly in silence , one of them in the seat next to Jarvis , a dusty-looking , very ordinary , middle-aged man in a voyeur 's dun-coloured raincoat . |
| 3 | The impact angle was very shallow and the aircraft was apparently under some control as it settled only three feet over a horizontal distance of 420 feet . |
| 4 | Many of us spend much of our working day slouched over office desks , typewriters , computers or other instruments , and our leisure time slumped in front of a television set , while the journey from home to work is usually by some sort of mechanized transport — often in cars which do little to improve our posture . |
| 5 | Even so , worklife mobility is still of some importance ; the Oxford researchers ( Goldthorpe , 1980 ) found that many of the downwardly mobile men recovered their position of origin through this means . |
| 6 | Beccaria 's appearance of humanity is perhaps to some extent due to the fact that , unlike Bentham , he often glossed over the darker implications of his arguments . |
| 7 | But management still lay , in Britain , more with LEAs than with heads or governors because in schools — primary , secondary or special — daily management was still at some distance from the control of finance , from the decision about a school 's total allocation of teaching staff , from the establishment of policies and schemes of priority in the school 's curriculum and organization and from the presentation of the whole picture of aims , methods and performance to parents and to other members of the local community . |
| 8 | The mammalian carnivores are also of some antiquity . |
| 9 | Plants are normally under some form of stress — heat or light stress are two of many forms — but nevertheless plants are generally healthy , from which we may conclude that nature is continually carrying out a delicate balancing act among the contributing reactions making up the complete photosynthetic ‘ machinery ’ . |
| 10 | Bear in mind how things are still to some extent put into newspapers these days . |
| 11 | Therefore , whereas the market participation of asset owners is always to some extent protected ( by the peculiar qualities of the assets possessed ) , the market activity of the entrepreneur is never protected in any way . |
| 12 | The water is often at some distance from the canal and is fed to the navigation in a series feeder channels . |
| 13 | The placement of tonic stress is still to some extent an unsolved mystery ; it is clear , though , that it is at least partly determined by the larger context ( linguistic and non-linguistic ) in which the tone-unit occurs . |
| 14 | Given the increased emphasis in Soviet military planning upon unreinforced attack by forward deployed units , the quality and reliability of the non-Soviet military establishments is clearly of some significance . |
| 15 | Thus the family name was already to some extent associated with extraterrestrials . |
| 16 | Demographic techniques are also of some use in ecological surveillance where there is interest in the breeding stability of a colony of birds or animals or where concern exists over culling programmes or the depletion of fish stocks . |
| 17 | But semantically innocuous re-orderings are also to some extent resisted : |
| 18 | In West Germany , pressures from the shopfloor movement were also to some extent incorporated by legislation ( in 1972 ) to extend the size and powers accorded to works councils in order to tackle workers ' grievances . |
| 19 | In West Germany , pressures from the shopfloor movement were also to some extent incorporated by legislation ( in 1972 ) to extend the size and powers accorded to works councils in order to tackle workers ' grievances . |
| 20 | Techniques were initially to some extent specific to particular branches of geomorphology but increasingly were found to have much in common and this trend should be further intensified as the potential of environmental monitoring by remote sensing becomes even more widely available and fully utilizes the opportunities offered by developments in microelectronics . |
| 21 | Secondly , the model implies that curriculum planning is always to some extent a contingent matter , in which there will be few across-the-board answers . |
| 22 | The flat was indeed in some disarray : immaculately clean , evidently she had done that first , but with most of its furnishings disposed in boxes on the floor . |
| 23 | The location and seriousness of the incident are still in some doubt . |
| 24 | Doctors were always in some way or other community leaders , much more so than lawyers or bankers . |
| 25 | Leibniz is clearly in some difficulty here . |
| 26 | Dr Ramey also explains that when couples are together for some time their hormone levels often begin to co-ordinate in the same way , so regular sex — say on Saturday nights — mean you tune into each other 's hormone levels . |
| 27 | Criminals were thus in some sense public benefactors ( this clearly being a case where crime does pay ! ) . |
| 28 | The counsellor is also to some extent directing the course of the discussions when making a selection from the many possible areas of interest . |
| 29 | Feeding behaviour among cetaceans is also of some fascination and there is clearly social co-operation between members of the same species , especially among Killer whales , which tend to hunt in packs , as do lions or wolves , using particular strategies for catching their prey . |
| 30 | Whether Henry Eliot 's letter is still on some Home Office file or other among the seventeen miles of paper which Toynbee ( if I remember right ) calculated to comprise the total government documentation of the war , I do not know ; but some research worker may conceivably yet come upon it , and it would be interesting to learn whether it contained any apt comments . |