Example sentences of "they [be] [prep] some [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be wrong to disregard them and they are worth some special study . |
| 2 | Books of reference that state that he was born in 1885 in Devon are mistaken , as they are about some other features of his career . |
| 3 | The need to reject unmatchable subjects because they are in some rare category of the extraneous variables means that the sample groups do not truly represent the population ; |
| 4 | So it seems to be about school anxiety and exam anxieties and so , but those are very common kinds of dreams , but , but very often when you you find they 're actually about the present , they 're about some recurrent anxiety or conflict in the present which is masquerading as if it were in the past because your associations of what 's going on are connected with the past er one way or another . |
| 5 | He said , ‘ The people at the Tate house were killed because they were into some bad shit . |
| 6 | They were of some hand-made material , loosely woven , and containing all the colours of — not the rainbow , but the sunset . |
| 7 | But Gould did not have time to fuel his friendships , unless they were of some direct advantage to his work . |
| 8 | These can not be explained simply in terms of shared descent ( as they were in some multicultural accounts of ethnicity ) or a shared socio-economic location and history ( as they are in some antiracist versions of ‘ the black experience ’ ) . |
| 9 | Gaveston talked as if they were in some pleasant garden . |
| 10 | They were in some differing order of human being , for she was gentry . |