Example sentences of "be some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Your tone would seem to imply that I am some sort of Bluebeard who keeps her incarcerated . |
| 2 | He seems to think I am some sort of double-dealing rascal who is going to cheat him — " |
| 3 | Some result from experiences or preferences , and are reactions to our fears or those we feel are some kind of threat to us . |
| 4 | ‘ You are not going to have them say you are some kind of dickhead . ’ |
| 5 | Monsterland are some kind of weird Beatles from hell , Hüsker Dü without the ennui factor , badly-produced feedback guitar shouters from Nowheresville who start off like Mudhoney , turn into late-era Byrds and then go haring off on their revving guitars before we can have them arrested . |
| 6 | I was just there for Type ninety , and he has a wall of books in his living room that — the shells are some kind of Danish wall system from nineteen fifty-five and it seemed , you know , that the shelves were slightly saggy , a few nicks and scrapes , so it 's not new looking at all . |
| 7 | Are some teaching styles inappropriate for individual children ? |
| 8 | ‘ Here are some tree diagrams showing how we fit into the conglomerate , and the management structure of the company . |
| 9 | Here are some comedy ideas . |
| 10 | Here are some self analysis questions to consider after each interview . |
| 11 | There are some utility furniture designs up here . |
| 12 | ‘ At this level there are some land deals being done . ’ |
| 13 | There are some withdrawal symptoms though do n't he ? |
| 14 | Most racket games are good examples , as are some ball games such as football . |
| 15 | If there are some brute facts , perhaps social , but founded in biological difference , which separate the lives and experience of women from those of men , may these not continue ineluctably to affect the moral ideals they may hold ? |
| 16 | Here are some horror stories — they may be all-too familiar . |
| 17 | Er , so that 's okay to an extent , but obviously we 've got an approved list of building societies and banks , which we never used to have , but we 've realized that er since B C C I p particularly and the housing market as bad as it is , there are some building societies and banks who may be in difficulties , and if they go down erm then they may not be taken over . |
| 18 | There are some syllabus makers , often expatriates , in all subjects , who would see anything African as desirable and anything European as irrelevant ; the antithesis of the old Euro-centred approaches and equally ridiculous . |
| 19 | So why are some State governments , notably those in the South , apparently unprepared to spend ‘ other people 's money ’ on some of their residents ? |
| 20 | And Banbury Town centre , there 's the Michaelmas Street Fair going on until Saturday , so there are some road closures and various diversions for traffic . |
| 21 | A masterweaver in Persia or Anatolia was held in the same esteem as we hold Rembrandt or Vermeer , and even today there are some textile artists whose reputation and status are equivalent to those of any contemporary artist in the West . |
| 22 | Here are some sample questions and answers ; as you can see , they do n't know much , and lack the mental equipment for intuitive or imaginative leaps . |
| 23 | However , there are some drafting points which should be considered . |
| 24 | We are some way yet from Autumn but that is no reason not to consider the way we can change colours on the needlebed to use up left over yarn or simply make a splash with colours we 've always wanted to knit together . |
| 25 | Abertillery and Glamorgan Wanderers , who were in the top division , last season , are some way off the pace . |
| 26 | By the stage we define broadly as intermediate , learners are some way towards developing control of the language they are learning : their store of language has grown to a point where they can adapt , adjust and add to it with some facility ; they can transfer language use from one context to another ; they are building up more complex networks of language and the work we do in the classroom at this level is similarly more complex and less controlled . |
| 27 | We are some way short of being able to judge precisely what is required , especially as questions have been raised about the regulatory machinery under the Financial Services Act 1986 , as well as the arrangements of the Occupational Pensions Board . |
| 28 | We are some way from the context of the debate , but if the Minister really wants evidence of how appallingly badly the service is being delivered , I shall be extremely glad to send him the 20-page Tower Watch survey of Archway Tower social security office . |
| 29 | Boro will be among the clubs stepping up their recruitment as their mid-table finish in North One proved they are some way short of promotion standard . |
| 30 | Waiting for the hatchings to finish , checking the mirror , the vehicles are some way behind now . |