Example sentences of "this [noun sg] [be] [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems that this field is in some danger of being overrun . ’ |
| 2 | This term is in some respects a misnomer , for within it are the hepatic lipocytes ( fat storing or Ito cells ) and a specialised basement membrane-like matrix , which consists predominantly of type IV collagen , laminin , and proteoglycans . |
| 3 | The sting of this question was to some extent drawn for Schleiermacher himself by the fact that he so closely identified immediate self-consciousness with God-consciousness as to believe that he had found a real and solid bridge between the two sides of the matter . |
| 4 | This work was in some ways inferior to that done in America , where engineers had developed a disc-cutter with better frequency-range and lower distortion , and their pressings had lower surface-noise as well . |
| 5 | This picture is to some extent endorsed by the artillery themselves . |
| 6 | Since , however , this is an object relation — that is , since that bad object is itself a part of the ego — this denial is to some extent also a denial of a part of the ego . |
| 7 | This distinction is of some importance . |
| 8 | We have to assume that this point is in some sense typical . |
| 9 | This criticism was to some extent pre-empted in the report by recognition of such difficulties and there has been a movement in recent years to a further disaggregation of the relevant geographical unit . |
| 10 | In the United States this ideal is to some extent a matter |
| 11 | This aunt is in some sense a kind of female-father figure , just as the maternal uncle is in a sense a male version of the mother . |
| 12 | It assumes , firstly , that there is something unique or special about the family in such a society , and , secondly , that this uniqueness is in some way associated with an easily recognizable phenomenon called ‘ industrialization ’ . |
| 13 | Hope this lot is of some use to you — the essay was probably the best part of this dissertation ( well I think so ! ) so I hope it 's a help . |
| 14 | Table 5.4 also suggests another reason not to panic : that over the longer run the rise in the elderly population in the next century and the rise in the numbers of very elderly in this century is to some degree offset by a projected fall in the number of very young non-workers , i.e. , that the relationship between total so-called ‘ dependency ’ and the size of the population of working age may not change significantly . |
| 15 | Although this characteristic is to some extent a handicap in that they can not be used , for instance , with boiling water , there are very great manufacturing advantages since the stuff can be squirted out hot in the form of tubes and sections or else into an elaborately shaped mould where it can be hardened almost instantaneously by rapid chilling . |
| 16 | ICE hockey clubs competing in the Heineken League promotion play-offs this weekend are in some confusion over what format the league ladder will take next year . |
| 17 | Once more the suggestion was that educational standards had fallen and that this decline was in some way connected with the introduction of progressive forms of education . |
| 18 | This exchanger is in some respects a ‘ mirror image ’ of Na + /H + exchange in that it possesses an intracellular modifier site which is sensitive to hydroxyl ( OH - ) ions and thus , although reglatively inactive at baseline pH i , is activated by intracellular alkalosis . |