Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] be some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I may be some time . ’ |
| 2 | I 'm going out and I may be some time … |
| 3 | I might be some time . ’ |
| 4 | ' I might be some time . ’ |
| 5 | I 'll be some time several hours . |
| 6 | With the crowd being the most volatile in the Caribbean — rioting held up play for 25 minutes during the Test against India in 1989 -there might be some trouble but only if the West Indies are faring badly , rather than as a result of any anti-South African sentiment . |
| 7 | Mutis ' volumes began to come out only in 1954 , which must be some kind of record ; in this case the explanation was the various political vicissitudes of the century and a half following his death . |
| 8 | We had three managers in one day , which must be some sort of record . |
| 9 | Some brands of biscuits are made with wholemeal flour or oats and slightly less sugar , which might be some improvement on your usual brand . |
| 10 | If you join someone else 's , you must be some kind of sadist . ’ |
| 11 | Anyway , you should be some help to him and he needs it . |
| 12 | ‘ We may be some time finding Mr Maxwell but we 'll let you know as soon as we do . ’ |
| 13 | mm possible , of course that one could be some way for Jackie 's |
| 14 | There may be some kind of sequencing to functions , some order in the way they follow another : request — refusal ; plea — offer and so on . |
| 15 | There may be some kind of notice on them that says , you know , these machines should not be switched and then everything would be switched off . |
| 16 | That is the way the planning system operates , erm and I would have thought that the Greater York experience , erm does perhaps suggest that there may be some look at erm on the question of the need for sub district guidance . |
| 17 | In practice however only specialization by client group has become an established model , although increasingly there may be some evidence of a diversity of specialisms being adopted within client groups , most particularly within child care . |
| 18 | You 'll probably find the walls washed clean , but there may be some evidence that he got out through one of the lavatory windows . |
| 19 | As has been seen with venture capital funds , there may be some evidence of difficulty of raising long term funds for under £200 000 , and a National Investment Bank may indeed fill this gap . |
| 20 | But there may be some disagreement over the way in which Dr Clarke formulates this . |
| 21 | CDC president , Jim Ousley , admits there may be some conflict through the channels . |
| 22 | At this stage there may be some long-sightedness which adjusts to the norm as the baby grows . |
| 23 | It may be soon but there may be some delay . |
| 24 | When writing to a building society , never omit the mortgage reference number , or there may be some delay in receiving a reply , and if you act for your client 's bank , building society , etc , you will of course normally ask them to send the deeds direct to you ; in such a case include in your letter , if there is an existing mortgage to be discharged on completion ( as there will be in the case of a building society and may be in the case of a bank ) , an undertaking to hold the deeds on behalf of the bank or society , to return them on demand , not to part with the same except on completion of the sale , and to discharge the society 's mortgage . |
| 25 | There may be some honesty there , but please do not let us hear from the Liberal Democrats that , if they vote against the Bill this evening , they have anything constructive to offer either existing coal miners or those displaced by restructuring . |
| 26 | By opening up surveyors and others to greater public accountability , there may be some protection against further , more intrusive , regulation . |
| 27 | There may be some unseemliness about the opportunism of assassinating characters still warm in their graves , but at least they can not feel the stings and arrows of outrageous libels . |
| 28 | Since the core Ser-Gln sequence is flanked on both sides by acidic residues it seemed possible that there may be some degeneracy in that one Glu residue may be sufficient to maintain recognition by the DNA-PK . |
| 29 | Obviously if this is accidental , there is no more chance than the average that it will recur , although if no accident or error has occurred , there may be some likelihood of a recurrence , perhaps one in 10 . |
| 30 | There may be some interaction between the edges and corners that prevents this split but it is a reasonable split to start with . |