Example sentences of "[was/were] some [noun sg] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was studying it reverently , as if it were some breviary of tobacco . |
| 2 | It 's as if his actual presence were some kind of inconvenience , like going to the toilet , as if his body were a mere nuisance . |
| 3 | It was as if , Harry reflected , Breakspear were some kind of Shangri-La , brief exposure to which ensured a stubborn youthfulness , prolonged exposure an accelerating regression to the cradle . |
| 4 | That was another thing — it did n't help her to maintain her own sense of proportion when the rest of the world treated Luke Hunter as if he were some kind of royalty … |
| 5 | Chapter 14 shows how experts used to have immunity on the ground that they were some kind of arbitrator , until that immunity was swept away in 1975 , but that it is still difficult to sue an expert . |
| 6 | I 'm not going to bring the whole world down on us by telling my mother and father that I feel like a big spancelled goat going to college and having to come back here every night as if I were some kind of simpleton . |
| 7 | She had no objection to working for her keep , but if Penry Vaughan went on treating her as if she were some kind of serf she 'd stick to plain , basic cooking from now on , she thought resentfully . |
| 8 | Had she not known Félix so well , Alice thought , touching the necklace at her throat , she might now be feeling as if there were some kind of trap closing slowly about her . |
| 9 | If you photographed a dead Marine with a poncho over his face and got paid for it , you were some kind of parasite . ’ |
| 10 | The site that was identified or potentially identified by by the house builders in York was a site which both the County Council and the District Council considered performed a number of greenbelt functions , I think that it would be accepted that in any development plan land should only be allocated if there were some degree of certainty that it would come forward for development within the plan period , the site that was identified , there had been no objections made to the Southern Ryedale local plan so therefore there were no indications that it would have come forward for development within that plan period anyway , had it been identified , had it been allocated . |
| 11 | Their international position would improve , it was suggested , if there were some form of democracy . |
| 12 | He grazed through the streets as if he were some sort of god , head and shoulders above everyone . |
| 13 | I thought you were some sort of ghoul come to … come to do what ghouls do . ’ |
| 14 | Now priests and even a couple of bishops appeared and Sophia felt a sense of relief , as if their presence were some sort of guarantee of a safe flight . |
| 15 | We were some sort of kin . |
| 16 | I knew her for months before she admitted , in a low voice , what her job was — as if she were some sort of traitor to society . |
| 17 | William normally ate as if food were some sort of obstacle between him and the next vital task , an obstacle which had to be demolished in as short a time as possible . |
| 18 | The establishment was ringed with barbed wire , and guarded by men of the R.A.F. Regiment whose N.C.O.s kept discipline by threatening their men that misdemeanours would result in their being sent ‘ inside the Park ’ , as if it were some sort of madhouse . |
| 19 | No doubt there was some question of insurance . |
| 20 | Now , he said , if there 's any question of doubt , he 'll seal it and then the receiver would know there was some question of doubt , and he would seal back the reply . |
| 21 | There was some curtailment of prisoners ' activities , a reduction in the number of outside working parties and of educational classes . |
| 22 | With the manure provided by so many beasts , there was some hope of success in making productive the marginal soils of the Weald , particularly where natural fertiliser was augmented by a wide variety of other fertilisers , lime , meat and even scraps from the villages . |
| 23 | There was some manufacture of salt , both on the east coast and at inland brine springs , but this was insufficient to meet the country 's requirements , and substantial supplies had to be imported . |
| 24 | Even in the Ottoman empire there was some sign of change . |
| 25 | During the decade prior to the First World War there was some discussion of proposals for the state maintenance of children . |
| 26 | Sir , reference to my appendix number five makes it clear that there was some lack of knowledge er by those in the village er round about June nineteen ninety two as to what was going on in Ryedale with regard to the site north of Skelton . |
| 27 | There was some measure of idealism and even altruism in this personal concept of my life work . |
| 28 | There was some measure of acceptance on your part . ’ |
| 29 | One of the problems that we 've suffered from in the past was some level of inconsistency which we 've now put to bed . |
| 30 | There was some return of pain and numbness after 24 hours , but repeating the dose relieved the problem . |