Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [be] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result has been some unbundling , loosening and decentralizing of control in some societies and in some organizations on some tasks . |
| 2 | The effect of falling school rolls and DES cuts in teacher-training quotas has been some reduction in the numbers of students on courses ; however , recruitment in 1981 was still considerable and , in 1981 , the polytechnics had 1,300 students enrolled on to teacher-training courses . |
| 3 | Mr George Henry Quarry , a Belfast solicitor was then applied to for some land at the top of Carrickblacker Road but initially there was no response from him and other possible sites investigated were some ground opposite where James 's Street now stands and land behind where the little Roman Catholic church was later built ( now Pritchard 's Motors ) and near the site of Edenderry Orange Hall . |
| 4 | What pupils and parents require is some notion of progress in relation to other people , that is norm-referenced data ; in relation to mathematical objectives , that is criterion-referenced data ; and in relation to pupils ' own earlier performances . |
| 5 | Like the other playwrights whose response to Thatcherism and brutality has been some hand-wringing of their own , Barker is too infatuated by his heroine 's strength to humanise her withe vulnerability and too in awe of her for a passionate or coolly detached opposition . |
| 6 | Judge John Curran QC said the weapon used was some form of cap-firing pistol . |
| 7 | What the Aplysia group needed was some process in their favoured animal which could be unequivocally recognized as long-term memory and whose circuitry could be studied in a similar manner to that they had so effectively employed with the short-term processes ; hence the attention paid in the early 1980s to finding an analogue of classical conditioning of the gill and siphon withdrawal reflex . |
| 8 | But obviously the revolution had been some time in the making . |
| 9 | When I wake up , maybe I 'll find that , like the death of Bobby in Dallas , all the recent news has been some kind of bad dream and that labels like Sarah , Non Fiction , Play It Again Sam and Cooking Vinyl all have bands on Top Of The Pops . |
| 10 | Commenting on its much improved figures ( see page seven ) , Cray Research Inc said order backlogs during the first quarter of rose to $381m from $354m in the same period a year ago , adding to positive overall quarterly earnings : John Carlson , the new chairman and chief executive , said that the contract value of orders signed was some $124m compared with just $86m in the first quarter of last year . |
| 11 | The importance of age-group measures is declining as higher education admits more mature students and becomes less age-specific , but nevertheless the proportion of young people enrolling is some index of the possible social functions and perceptions of first degrees . |
| 12 | From Henry 's recollection of the trial , which was , admittedly , not all that clear , Young had been some kind of chemist . |
| 13 | ‘ I am disappointed for the crowd because generally they have been treated to some good football here and all our performance lacked was some goals . |
| 14 | The first catfish added were some Corydoras — a trio of C. sterbae , a trio of C. haraldschultzi , and three C. adolfoi . |
| 15 | If Frankenstein had been some sort of intelligent creepy-crawly , Ace thought , that 's the kind of monster he 'd have built . |
| 16 | Library co-operatives rarely require much financial outlay but a minimum resource required is some staff time , and it seems likely that authorities with designated training officers ( or teams ) , are going to be in a much stronger position to be able to utilize the considerable potential possibilities of library co-operatives . |
| 17 | The highest level of information used in processing to date has been some form of lexical look-up . |
| 18 | The most common use of context has been some measure of how letters may legally combine to form words . |