Example sentences of "it [modal v] [be] some [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not necessarily the case that this will have happened , nor can it be assumed that the document in question belongs to a given domain at all ( it may be some sort of hybrid , or simply too ambiguous to fit neatly in one domain ) . |
| 2 | And I think , instead of pupil comment it should be some sort of joint say . |
| 3 | It must be some kind of joke . |
| 4 | As I stared at her wondering what had caused the condition , I decided that it must be some kind of vitamin deficiency . |
| 5 | Mr Litmus says it might be some kind of tribesman . ’ |
| 6 | It looks like some kind of mollusc , but no mollusc fits easily into this pattern of growth ; various people have suggested it might be some kind of snail , or perhaps a monoplacophoran ( see p. 76 ) . |
| 7 | He thought for a moment that it might be some kind of game , that their running would cease as suddenly as it had begun , that they 'd stand like statues on the sand , waiting for him to catch up with them . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've heard that it might be some test of our will near the end of my presidency , but those F-16s sent the message to him pretty clearly . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ It might be some sort of weather , ’ said Angalo . |
| 10 | Halzman half suggested it might be some sort of timing device . |
| 11 | ‘ You think it could be some kind of viral infection ? ’ |
| 12 | You think it could be some sort of timing device ? ’ |
| 13 | I read it doggedly in the hope that it would be some kind of follow-up . |
| 14 | Er , it can be a sport it can be some sort of activity , it could be going to evening classes , learning something . |