Example sentences of "[prep] be [verb] [prep] some [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He appeared to be searching for some key document . |
| 2 | She wrote a memorial to his brother George , now Prince Regent , Nelson 's friend , reminding him of the codicil which the national hero had made to his will leaving her and Horatia to the nation , and asking for it to be recognized in some tangible form . |
| 3 | His heart sank , perversely convinced that he was to be transferred to some damp hole where he would be able neither to stand upright nor lie at full length , and chained there in darkness . |
| 4 | Bremner and Jimmy Johnstone made Willie Ormond 's period as Scotland manager into a nightmare of infuriating incidents and in the '60s , the city of Turin was to be treated to some memorable scandals when Denis Law and Joe Baker both signed for the Italian League side Torino . |
| 5 | ‘ Then Love Begins ’ only lives to be heard on some Midwestern FM easy listening station — which you may find funny or sad in itself . |
| 6 | ‘ Then Love Begins ’ only lives to be heard on some Midwestern FM easy listening station — which you may find funny or sad in itself . |
| 7 | Whether the draftsman of sub-rule ( 3 ) had in mind the possibility that costs might , for contractual reasons , need to be taxed on some other basis than standard or indemnity seems to me doubtful . |
| 8 | He thought of a Socialist future for his half country , and conceived the hope of a job in which he might have the luck to be gripped by some stupendous ire of work , trying to avoid the spectacle of the people around him and in the wet street outside , which pointed out a fraternal indifference in the world that was the last perception he cared to harbor . |
| 9 | Instead , the probabilities would have to be assigned in some arbitrary way . |
| 10 | If ideas sound good and meet the needs of a current state of affairs , they will tend to be accepted in some simple assimilable form without being subjected to scrutiny . |
| 11 | If leave is refused a direction must be made dispensing with service or providing for the documents to be served in some other manner . |
| 12 | Any piece of computer equipment which has to be fitted to some other equipment , such as a replacement " card " ( printed circuit board containing integrated circuits ) which has to be a certain shape , or have a certain type of connector , in order to fit into a computer will also fall into the first part of the exception . |
| 13 | The day 's missed training would have to be fitted in some other time . |
| 14 | In educational evaluation one may attempt to avoid the judgement aspect — but decisions may then have to be made by some other group , decisions that will be influenced by the information collected and its presentation . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , the Reston , Virginia-based Visix , which reckons it missed the contract IBM awarded to Neuron Data Inc last week by a whisker , is thought to be looking at some alternative ways of marketing Galaxy , including using the Internet as a vehicle . |
| 16 | Fred and Sophy , though they were only two and three years younger , and though they had seen mamma in her coffin , seemed to themselves to be looking at some strange show . |
| 17 | Mr Ferris submitted that the obligation to give personal treatment was very substantially cut down in cases falling within sub-paragraph ( 2 ) and that a doctor was entitled to make arrangements for the entirety of his practice to be conducted by some other doctor . |
| 18 | The extent of your employer 's duty to pay for it , if the retraining is to be conducted by some outside body , should be made clear . |
| 19 | His normally responsive facial expression was firmly controlled ; an Oxford contemporary remembered that for all its serenity an observer seemed ‘ to be gazing upon some great portrait of a face rather than upon a face ’ . |
| 20 | These and many other such instances , however , are mainly cases where , although the constitution forbade the enactment of the law in question by that legislature or process , it provided for it to be enacted in some other way , e.g. by constitutional amendment . |
| 21 | But female psychologists are much more likely than male psychologists always to be seen as some male psychologist 's prize student . |
| 22 | The basic species of Provence and Moss roses , Rosa centifolia , forms a wide , loose , open bloom ( an influence to be seen in some modern hybrids ) , which has given them a rather derogatory name ‘ cabbage rose ’ . |
| 23 | Wealthy ladies , doing a little charitable slumming , as well as a few shopkeepers ' wives , bought the pretty baby clothes , and the doll she had dressed went for a fabulous price , to be given to some little girl more fortunate than those for whom the money was being raised . |
| 24 | Such a drive , however , has to be operationalized in some other way , since the animals do not have any direct knowledge of the matters relevant to inbreeding : the inhibition against mating has to be triggered by the recognition of or reaction to some property adequately correlated with the kin relationship , such as being an individual with which the animal has been brought up . |
| 25 | The deeper down a tunnel goes the more dangerous it is and the more likely it is to be inhabited by some terrible monster . |
| 26 | Now she looked almost like a child about to be scolded for some minor misdemeanour . |
| 27 | Indeed , adaptation often seems to be compared with some assumed saintly lifestyle and , as social services clients are often closely scrutinized , their short-comings are manifest . |
| 28 | Our word information would have to be stored in some appropriate fashion to facilitate ‘ activation ’ of certain words from both directions , i.e. from both the contextual and the feature/letter levels . |
| 29 | All we have is a process of trial and error which , essentially , consists in seeing how well a particular indicator correlates with other indicators of the same concept and with other indicators of concepts presumed to be related in some causal connection . |
| 30 | By the end of the century many paleontologists supported the theory of orthogenesis , in which variation was supposed to be pushed in some preordained direction by forces built into the constitution of the organisms . |