Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] be [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | *the influencer — individuals whose influence over the purchase decision is in some way significant or authoritative . |
| 2 | In the previous recession electronics were to some extent protected from the slump by companies ' enthusiasm for replacing old technologies with new . |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , well I suppose in your line of business you get used to bodies and blood and things , ’ said Mrs Foster , as if writing crime fiction was in some way akin to working in an abattoir . |
| 4 | An impulse passing along a nerve fibre is in some respects similar to an electric pulse passing along a wire . |
| 5 | Coal as an export commodity is to some extent a casualty of the shift in the economic mix of the Western industrialised nations away from energy intensive ‘ smokestack ’ industries and towards higher added value , higher technology industries . |
| 6 | On the drive to Pelham Woods Rachel realised just how short the concentration span was of some members of the group . |
| 7 | Just who paid for the telephone call is in some doubt . |
| 8 | At Knossos too the wall and ceiling plaster was in some rooms modelled into relief forms , sometimes abstract , like the spiral reliefs found in the North Sector , sometimes representational , like the Bull Relief from the North Entrance Passage or the Bull-Grappling Fresco from the East Wing . |
| 9 | The exposures for the field of view calculation and reference strip placement are to some extent arbitrary . |
| 10 | It could only be concluded that the cause of the intense eye irritation was in some way related to vehicle exhaust emissions . |
| 11 | It seems likely that dementia is the extreme end of a continuum of behaviour ; the point prevalence is to some degree determined by where the case definition line is drawn . |
| 12 | Many children had a partial understanding of the process of evaporation and were aware that the decrease in water level was in some way connected to the sun and heat . |
| 13 | The entrance to Pennistons Court was through an opening between the Burdens and the next cottage which was occupied by the Stanford family — the court entrance being under some of Burden 's bedrooms . |
| 14 | Today the welfare state is to some extent ‘ under siege ’ . |
| 15 | Its opening shot is of some character walking , walking across a featureless landscape . |
| 16 | But response rate is to some extent within control : a Modular Course survey of staff satisfaction with modification of a scheme for mapping courses on to timetable hours , yielded an ( internal ) postal return rate of 35 per cent . |
| 17 | IBM figures the commercial Unix marketplace is worth some $9.4b right now , 25% of which is accounted for by Unix OLTP solutions , a further 2% by Unix OLTP with a TP monitor . |
| 18 | But on that particular winter 's night I am recollecting the dining room was for some reason out of use , and Lord Darlington was dining with a solitary guest — I believe it was Sir Richard Fox , a colleague from his lordship 's Foreign Office days — in the vastness of the banqueting hall . |
| 19 | In assessing the relative efficiency of alternative forms of hierarchy , the extent to which they economize on bounded rationality and control opportunism is of some importance . |
| 20 | Each life decision is to some extent irrevocable , since even if one goes back to the fork in the road and takes the other turning , he can not eradicate the effects of the experience the first choice has brought him . |
| 21 | The choice of manufacturing technique is to some extent governed by the metal or alloy used and by the intended finished shape . |
| 22 | There seems little doubt that such variation is the rule rather than the exception : the meaning of any word form is in some sense different in every distinct context in which it occurs . |
| 23 | For one thing , if , as will be considered shortly , employment income is in some cases only a small proportion of a manager 's return from the company , then even with a significant correlation between remuneration and growth the growth motive would be cancelled out . |
| 24 | The criticism that extracts are leading the brewers into the same realms of flavouring technology as the food industry is to some degree unfair since the extracts are modifications of existing ingredients . |
| 25 | It is possible to argue that the SR compatibility effect is in some sense due to the nature of the anatomical pathways involved . |
| 26 | ‘ According to one dogma , world history is in some sense a coherent whole , and it is therefore possible to affirm that certain events have a unique significance for the entire story . |
| 27 | According to the UK government , the total UK training market is worth some £33,000m , of which £400m is for information technology . |
| 28 | The security of possession of the Family Allowance book is in some cases the final consideration which enables a woman , with the help of friends and relations , to end an intolerable marriage . |
| 29 | The impression is sometimes given by Ministers and judges that the size of the prison population is in some sense a product of forces of nature beyond political or judicial control . |
| 30 | The prediction in relation to language learning is to some extent confusing . |