Example sentences of "[prep] be [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | The graduate in English was to be to some extent a scholar , in so far as he or she had a sense of the past and the capacity to understand literature in its historical contexts , particularly linguistic ; beyond that , what was looked for was wide reading , an appreciation of masterpieces , and a capacity to write well , attend to evidence , and disentangle sense from nonsense in argument . |
| 2 | Emerson revealed that both those who continued working and those who retired ‘ appeared to be to some extent affected by rather garbled information concerning retirement impact ’ ( Emerson 1959 ) . |
| 3 | First , the authority of the lecturer in the teaching relationship has to be to some degree granted by the student . |
| 4 | Secondly , an exemption clause may be partially effective if it is shown to be to some extent reasonable . |
| 5 | The Unix systems management market is thought to be worth some $40m now — its expected to top $1bn by 1997/98 . |
| 6 | The Unix systems management market is thought to be worth some $40m now — its expected to top $1,000m by 1997-98 . |
| 7 | The Financial Times of Nov. 27 , 1989 , reported that the United Kingdom was seeking to arrange a £2,000 million bank loan to finance Saudi Arabia 's continued purchase of British arms under the massive Al-Yamamah arms deal first agreed in 1985 and expanded in 1988 [ see pp. 34012 ; 36312 ; 36952 ] , chiefly involving the purchase of Tornado fighter-bombers built by British Aerospace ( BAe ) and currently estimated to be worth some £20,000 million . |
| 8 | Lastly , the points used in the control group can not be regarded as suitable : electrical stimulation of needles only 2 cm from the real points is unlikely to be without some effect . |
| 9 | It was all at my fingertips and I was only too pleased to be of some assistance , from whatever quarter the request came . |
| 10 | He was a man apart , a man desperate to be of some use , driven to understand the purpose of life and his role within it . |
| 11 | He , while happy to be of some use , was not content that inequality on this scale should persist — inequality of opportunity , of course , for as a station-master he was a hierarchical man . |
| 12 | For this reason , the fourth edition of Coopers ' manual will continue to be of some value . |
| 13 | ‘ My feeling was that if this was the last thing I was going to do , I wanted it to be of some value . |
| 14 | The building is supposed to be of some importance , architecturally . |
| 15 | Ostensibly asexual lineages of fish and salamanders have been shown by analysis of their mitochondrial DNA to be of some antiquity ( 4–5 million and 100,000 years , respectively ) . |
| 16 | So here , for the fraught and confused among you , is a short guide to male restaurant etiquette that may prove to be of some assistance . |
| 17 | Since this second sufficient condition turns out to be of some importance , it might be useful to have an intuitive idea of what is involved . |
| 18 | It really gives me a kick to be of some use like this . ’ |
| 19 | The record seemed to be of some unremarkable string music . |
| 20 | Grade III buildings were those which , whilst not qualifying for the first statutory list when compiled in 1949–69 , were considered nevertheless to be of some importance for planning purposes . |
| 21 | In Precedent 2 there are two such special clauses which are , however , felt to be of some general application . |
| 22 | These arms are indeed going to have to be of some considerable length as your excellent photograph appears to be of Tweedmouth , Berwick-upon-Tweed , in Northumberland ( England ) ! |
| 23 | Ben he spotted me on these occasions he invariably called out some mocking remark and if he happened to be with some of his cronies they all joined in the laughter at my expense . |
| 24 | Any bird watcher worth the pinch of salt he always carries in his pocket to sprinkle on the bird 's tail , yearns to be on some jutting peninsula at spring migration time . |
| 25 | If the parent bird can appear to be at some grave physical disadvantage , the killer will find the tempting proximity of the vulnerable adult irresistible and its concentration on the location of the nest-site can be broken . |
| 26 | I had not done so before merely because I had not thought of them in this context ; I had supposed that you might prefer to be at some slight remove from the nefarious influences of the department … |
| 27 | Also , the tempi in the original Bruckner scores are much simpler than they come to be in some editions . |
| 28 | Gordon Woodroffe , a zoologist who has studied the water voles of the North York Moors , does not consider that the mink is the total rogue it is held out to be in some quarters , but it certainly appears to have caused the vole 's extinction on the Moors . |
| 29 | You appear to be in some sort of surreal shopping mall , with the world 's TV laid out for purchase : you almost feel like you should have a shopping trolley , to wheel up and down the aisles . |
| 30 | Coleman , whose three surviving daughters sat opposite him , was noticed to be in some pain ( he suffered from gout in his later years ) . |