Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [be] [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Information about shape and size will of course be to some extent writer dependent . |
| 2 | A second satisfaction of indeterminism is in some relation to the first . |
| 3 | There are critical windows of time during which maturation must be achieved ; failure of maturation is to some extent irrecoverable . |
| 4 | The years of slavery are in some measure paid for by the clothes and jewellery heaped upon them by the Egyptians , now only too anxious to see them go . |
| 5 | The allocation of work was in some cases based upon people 's skills outside ; for example , prisoners who had been barbers , washermen , gardeners or ‘ sweepers ’ ( refuse collectors and cleaners from the lower castes ) were given similar jobs if available , but , generally speaking , new inmates were assigned a task without much deliberation or consultation . |
| 6 | For lone mothers the experience of poverty and the consequences of poverty are in some respects similar to , and in others different from , those of married mothers . |
| 7 | Because the experience of parenthood is to some extent idealized in our culture we have chosen to draw attention to stressful aspects of the transitions involved . |
| 8 | And , thirdly , there is the expectation that the body of knowledge is in some sense developmental or cumulative , though this notion is perhaps easier to relate to the sciences and technology than the social sciences and easier to the social sciences than the arts . |
| 9 | Dr. Leadbetter then commented on the other side of the coin ; the problems of under-funding were to some extent compensated for by the rewards of hard earned success . |
| 10 | ‘ I think that there is a real risk that an imaginative child may get the impression that a bit of palm is in some way a magical charm , ’ he considered . |
| 11 | Income support is , of course , only paid on test of need , but in assessing a person 's means certain forms of income such as disability pensions and a reasonable level of capital are to some extent disregarded . |
| 12 | The idea that control of ‘ inferior ’ governmental bodies and officers by the higher echelons of government is in some way particularly desirable is reflected in the history of the so-called ‘ prerogative ’ orders : certiorari , prohibition , and mandamus . |
| 13 | This state of detachment is in some ways like the discrimination of Shankara in which all things are seen to be the same though they possess the illusion of being different . |
| 14 | The architecture of parallelism is to some extent in conflict or in counterpoint with the grammatical structure of each sentence , so that the main verb ( shown in capitals ) occurs in mid-parallelism , and forms ( continuing the architectural simile ) a concealed centre of gravity , balancing subject against predicate . |
| 15 | Relations of production were in some cases clearly oppressive , but that was more attributable to the nationalism of the government and the ethnic prejudice of the employers than to their capitalism : relations of wealthy to poor Zuwaya did not constitute class relations , and secondary characteristics of class — segregation in housing , schooling and medical care — — were absent . |
| 16 | As to those who force horses forward with blows in such a case , they only inspire them with greater terror ; for they imagine , when they suffer any pain at such a time , that what they look upon with alarm is in some way the cause of it . |
| 17 | Not only biologists : politicians , too , have sometimes liked to argue that political systems based upon competition are in some sense ‘ natural ’ , because competition is such an essential part of nature . |
| 18 | His taste in furniture was in some ways mirrored by his choice of restaurants . |
| 19 | As Freudian ideas entered the popular discourse ( which happened but slowly in Britain ) , they strengthened the view that biology was destiny and that women who did not find satisfaction in motherhood were in some way abnormal . |
| 20 | One of the key assumptions of Morgan and Engels was that the shift from matriliny to patriliny was in some ways linked with the introduction of herding and , subsequently , agriculture . |
| 21 | His range of roles has crossed many more adventurous and challenging boundaries , from the devil himself through to perhaps his now most famous portrayal of The Joker in Batman and when Nicholson insists that everything he does on screen is in some way autobiographical , delves into what makes him tick find contradictions and confusion at almost every turn . |
| 22 | Attempts by the Orthodox clergy to convert the indigenous peoples , mainly shamanists , to Christianity were in some case approved of by the authorities , but generally in the period under study there was a reluctance to permit the baptism of natives , since they then ceased to pay yasak . |
| 23 | Firstly , the heading gives the impression that the production plans for the car and its fitness for purpose are in some way in doubt and this is very far from the true situation . |