Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] be [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | It suggests that a 65 year-old retiree with a large private income is in some meaningful sense more dependent than a 64 year-old labourer in receipt of a low weekly wage . |
| 2 | The administrative budget was for some RF26,000 million , a reduction in real terms over the previous year , and the investment budget stood at RF14,320,000 , of which some RF5,500 million came from domestic financing and the remainder ( 61 per cent ) from external sources . |
| 3 | Aristotelian physics was to some extent quite successful . |
| 4 | Occasionally a married man , particularly if his sexual capacity is for some reason declining , may find pornography more attractive than the " real thing " . |
| 5 | Thus while philanthropic work was for some integral to their feminist beliefs , for others it represented merely a diversion from household cares , a sublimation of other desires , or , and this was probably the most common motivation , a socially acceptable way for both married women and their daughters to engage in purposeful work . |
| 6 | Without the steady drip-feed of leaked documents , clearly the hon. Gentleman is in some difficulty with his figures . |
| 7 | Foreign policy was in some ways still remarkably simple . |
| 8 | Social distress — a restricted , inadequate or disturbed individual whose social performance is in some way leading to personal difficulties . |
| 9 | Even in the Constitution on the Liturgy , approved in the second session , where a theology of liturgical pluralism is to some extent accepted , there is no use of the word ‘ church ’ in the plural nor of the phrase ‘ ecclesia particularis ’ ( particular church ) , though the thought of the constitution would have benefited from such use . |
| 10 | Still , there had been Maggie 's arena ( the tiny sun was like some red-gel spotlight blazing just to highlight her ) . |
| 11 | This is starting to become a trend in Britain as well , although the planning system which encourages standard development is to some extent acting as a block . |
| 12 | Previously the support from central government was to some extent related to the provision of services , which were themselves related to local needs , at least in the view of the local authority . |
| 13 | Both the village and surrounding countryside are worth some exploration and I was lucky as my trek gave me an insight into both . |
| 14 | It is , for example , becoming clear that a family history of left handedness is in some way related to the cerebral organisation of functions . |
| 15 | Even without insisting on the strict claim that inference from fact to value is logically inadmissible , a claim which since Hume has been a commonplace , and after G. E. Moore 's analysis of the Naturalistic Fallacy was for some time an orthodoxy , it has been convenient to stay out of range of standard criticisms by showing that we can get along well enough without resorting to this kind of inference . |
| 16 | Small traces may not hurt , but in households where modern hygiene has become a fanatical pursuit , the unhappy pet is at some risk . |
| 17 | The present pavement is to some extent gauged to enhance that relationship , which will be savaged by the proposed reconstruction of pavements . |
| 18 | On the other hand , if the bulge is elongated and its long axis is at some angle oblique to the line of sight ( see Fig. 3 ) , perspective effects cause equivalent lines of sight on either side of the centre to have systematically different surface brightnesses . |
| 19 | It presupposes that the functionally optimal capitalist state is in some senses class-neutral . |
| 20 | A still life is in some ways an ideal picture to describe , as a firm basis can be found in a catalogue of its components . |
| 21 | At a time when the largest nuclear power in the world is in the process of disintegration into separate republics , when that massive nuclear arsenal is under some central control of the remaining central authorities , and when our keen concern is to ensure that that security is real , it seems absolutely unthinkable that we should not have our own protection and the ultimate assurance of an independent deterrent . |
| 22 | Currently world sales of photovoltaic equipment are worth some US$ 100 million . |
| 23 | The characteristics of the controlled authority are in some ways those of the classic bureaucracy , in which rules provide for all cases of need . |
| 24 | The Roman empire was not experienced by the Jews as a regime of toleration , and pagan society was in some degree anti-Semitic . |
| 25 | The only practical solution is in some way to limit the calorie intake of those who are overweight , while taking other steps to improve their rate of weight loss . |
| 26 | Just as Wernicke 's aphasia is in some sense the opposite of Broca 's aphasia , so transcortical aphasia is in some sense the opposite of conduction aphasia , because in transcortical aphasia it is repetition which is the best -preserved of the patient 's linguistic abilities , with the patient being extremely poor at understanding speech . |
| 27 | The two watchmen were in a van , radio-equipped of course , but unfortunately the particular area was under some overhead power cables which badly affect radio for some distance around . ’ |
| 28 | This may involve a narrowing of consciousness , a division of awareness into a more- and a less-focal area , a widening of consciousness until it has no especial object , or a flickering of consciousness when steady attending is for some reason precluded . |
| 29 | We hope their heartfelt advice is of some use to the grand old man . |
| 30 | The mechanisms for generating form are in some cases poorly understood . |