Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a more general sense I am fascinated by some of the things you 've just mentioned in your introduction , the question of continuity in German history , how we , how this marvellous nation , the nation of Beethoven and Wagner and Marx and Freud , actually finishes up going to war twice against its European neighbours , and in the Second World War in particular committing these awful atrocities . |
| 2 | If you are dismissed for some other reason unconnected with redundancy , you will have to consider whether the circumstances justify an unfair dismissal claim . |
| 3 | Non-basic beliefs are justified in terms of the basic and the basic are justified in some other way ; the asymmetry lies in the fact that justification is all one way , from non-basic to basic . |
| 4 | It is characteristic of the metabolism of a cell that the relative amounts of the different substances remain roughly constant , and that if these proportions are altered by some outside disturbance , they tend to return to their initial values when the disturbance is removed . |
| 5 | Whenever all the reps are completed with some strength still in reserve , then the weight should be increased , never the reps . |
| 6 | True marine conditions probably prevailed only in the north of the Fens but brackish conditions further south are witnessed by some of the fossils . |
| 7 | The notion of fact is apt to cause difficulties only if facts are treated as some special species of existences . |
| 8 | Citizens of Birmingham are treated to some of the finest displays of the North American golden rod to be seen in the country . |
| 9 | In the case of hierarchies only general formal characteristics are discussed : specific types of hierarchy are treated in some detail in chapter 6 ( taxonomic hierarchies ) , chapter 7 ( part-whole hierarchies ) and chapter 8 ( non-branching hierarchies ) . |
| 10 | As a director of public health , and having been chief officer to a health authority for some 17 years and having experienced more reorganisations than I care to remember , I can see the career turbulence that the current reforms are producing for some senior doctors in public health medicine . |
| 11 | I start up the hill towards Dýrafjöđ3ur but before I reach the top I am treated to some Icelandic weather . |
| 12 | It makes it easier , in principle , to ‘ see ’ how many hypotheses are competing for some portion of an utterance , for example , and to decide which are the most promising given the evidence . |
| 13 | We are helping with some specific problems that will occur in the run-down , such as the expansion of the former military hospital at Dharan . |
| 14 | It is thus possible that , just as we are suggesting for some of the other finds at Mycenae , it was taken from Knossos : if so , the implication is that other pieces of statuary and relief carving from Minoan Knossos were also removed — by some Mycenean equivalent of Lord Elgin , perhaps . |
| 15 | He was learning something of the dead man 's background , admittedly from a biased witness , but any policeman knows that all witnesses are biased in some degree . |
| 16 | ‘ We know that hospital caterers are struggling with some severe economic constraints , ’ says Roden . |
| 17 | Hostile responses ( of the ‘ Master ’ Hobbes and of less original authors ) are examined at some length . |
| 18 | This issue raises a whole series of complex methodological questions that are examined in some detail in P.A. Consultants ' 1987 review . |
| 19 | In this chapter , the scope and general principles of laws relating to obscenity , indecency , blasphemy , conspiracy and incitement to racial hatred are examined in some detail . |
| 20 | Yes Moderator the Board 's erm published accounts are prefaced by some comments on the accounting conventions that are used . |
| 21 | In contemporary England written language takes precedence , for instance , in a legal context — a written contract being more binding than a spoken agreement — while in Scotland verbal contracts are binding in some cases . |
| 22 | The nature and interrelationship between these entities is a difficult and debated subject , and readers are referred to some of the best-known texts on the subject . |
| 23 | 3 Where possible , procedures should be established to ensure that all documents coming from new trading partners are referred to some responsible person within the business for consideration . |
| 24 | Two simple clusters C1 and C2 are distinguished by some function ( or predicate ) f which takes a value v1 on all points x in C1 , and a different value v2 on all x in C2 . |
| 25 | Two ontological clusters C and C' are distinguished by some f which has values on all x in C but which is meaningless on all y in C' . |
| 26 | I mean if , if they are in bed , I mean if they are there they are resting to some extent , even if they 're sort of awake but |
| 27 | Figure 3.4 shows the massive concentration of 25–44-year-olds to the north and west of London , in precisely those counties which have recently had substantial population increases and which are regarded as some of the most prosperous places in the country ( Champion et al . |
| 28 | Thus exchange rates are regarded by some as being completely unpredictable . |
| 29 | All participating hotels boast their own golf courses , which are situated in some of the most beautiful parts of the country from Kent to Ayrshire . |
| 30 | If you can accept this concept , you will then be able to understand in principle why some people are predisposed to some illnesses or tend to be sensitive to certain types of dietary changes , groups of food , or nutritional deficiencies . |