Example sentences of "[conj] be [prep] some [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An study by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds has shown how EC " structural " funds , designed to alleviate poverty , fail to account for the environment and are in some cases responsible for the destruction of habitats and extinction of species . |
| 2 | They had an extraordinary tension and were in some ways quite different from the earlier recording . |
| 3 | George is quite realistic throughout the book and is in some cases , justifiably pessimistic . |
| 4 | This story , which deserves attention and is in some ways unique , is told in Chapter 7 . |
| 5 | The point at which this occurs is known as the FLORY or THETA point and is in some ways analogous to the Boyle point for a non-ideal gas . |
| 6 | James Smith from Leeds recently purchased a copy of the legendary Elite , and is after some tips that work . |
| 7 | In 1893 the eminent physiologist J. S. Burdon-Sanderson ( 1828–1905 ) told the British Association for the Advancement of Science that ‘ oecology ’ was one of the three great divisions of biology , along with physiology and morphology , and was in some ways the most attractive of the three because it came closest to the spirit of what had once been called the ‘ philosophy of living nature ’ . |
| 8 | The 1986 Act views the appointment of an administrative receiver as being in some respects similar to insolvency proceedings and regulates it accordingly . |