Example sentences of "[adv] [modal v] be some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought it just might be some sort of lovers ’ tryst not some bloody SAS training exercise . ’ |
| 2 | Consequently , there were counter-proposals that within the new organisation there still should be some kind of authoritative institution that would represent the interests of the participating states . |
| 3 | When my rheumatoid arthritis was very bad it has been very bad and very chronic , and it still can be some days , erm I had more ways of getting up and down those stairs and I got up and down , but I had to invent ways to do it . |
| 4 | However , since we are supposed to be dealing with planned growth , there surely must be some connection between targets and fulfilment . |
| 5 | With the law as it is there may be some men who would prefer an adult partner , but who at present turn their attention to boys because they consider that this course is less likely to lay them open to prosecution or to blackmail than if they sought other adults as their partners . |
| 6 | Sir Nicolas Browne Wilkinson V-C commented that ‘ there manifestly must be some limitation on the purposes for which seized documents can be used . |
| 7 | When I looked at him in the darkness , I began to wonder if all of what he had told me earlier could be some trick on me , played by the spirits who had sent him . |