Example sentences of "and [pron] [be] some [noun] " in BNC.

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1 And she was some talker , old Eva .
2 And there 's some shortbread and chocolates and a jar of chicken breasts , ’ she said , taking them out of the basket and putting them on the table .
3 Oh , Oh , I took the dog for a walk last tonight , and there 's some skid marks down the end of Crouch Road the there 's the and then they 'd taken half the road out and you can see someone 's done a wheely , and they 've gone in and done like this business and shot off !
4 If you 've got an idea or a message to send it has to be encoded in some way then there 's various mediums or media by which it can be transmitted but it 's got to be decoded by the receiver for the idea or message to be understood , and there 's some kind of feedback mechanism potentially from the receiver to the sender .
5 And that TV presenter chap has analysed us psychologically , and one of the Sunday 's is serialising the new book , and there 's some women 's rag did the female angle , and enough 's enough .
6 And there 's some tie up , you could , you could draw a picture , and draw a line from one to the other .
7 And there 's some doubt as to whether the council can make its tenant farmers enforce the ban .
8 Well really that 's l by and large what groups is all about so it 's clearly that they do and there 's some cases here of sort of cyclists cycling harder and faster when they 've got they 're training with other cyclists or erm when they 're training against the clock .
9 You may say we 've robbed Peter to pay Paul , and there 's some truth in that , but we have n't at the end of the day gone further than that .
10 There is some residual evidence that daylight length may be a factor and that the invention of electric light has also lowered the age of menarche but this effect is not erm absolutely clear and there 's some controversy about it .
11 Now some of you , if you 've only been with the company a few months or whatever it was , may not have noticed too much of a change , er , but I 've noticed a bit of a ch , I 've noticed a tremendous change in two and half months , two and a half years , and there 's some people in the room who must have noticed tremendous changes .
12 ‘ The police think she — Sybil — must have disturbed an intruder , and there 's some suggestion that the same person killed Angy .
13 And there 's some bacon there . ’
14 And there 's some homework in it .
15 and yet you go to Taiwan and there 's some sort of , land reform which ends up in , in a very equal distribution
16 And we 're also having a sponsored Tree Best , where we 're hoping that lots of children will come along dressed up as trees , and have raised at least £10 sponsorship each and we 're having performances on a rainforest theme , and a dancer who will be doing a dance for rainforest , and there 's some rainforest type music and things like that , and there 'll be prizes and certificates for the children who are trees , and there 'll be an exhibition that head office are launching .
17 However , when the control is disturbed and the lumen of many arterioles are simultaneously vasodilated , the volume of blood is insufficient to maintain effective circulation and there is some degree of shock .
18 These verses do not appear in all early manuscripts and there is some doubt as to whether they were originally part of Luke 's Gospel . )
19 And there is some sense in this .
20 However , and there is some discussion amongst interpreters of Locke about this , what counts as consent ?
21 We can suggest that the eye spots scare off predators , and there is some evidence that this is so .
22 Then it must have changed its mind , and started to grow in two directions , a narrower tube into the ‘ mouthpiece ’ and a broader one into the ‘ horn ’ , and there is some evidence that the ‘ horn ’ end continued to get wider and longer .
23 This is around three times the average dose in the UK , and there is some evidence of an increase in cancer incidence .
24 Undoubtedly , then , tachymetabolic dinosaurs would have needed plenty of food , and there is some evidence for this .
25 They wilt readily learn to distinguish light from dark and there is some evidence that they can also distinguish patterns and colours , although it must be said that this capacity is extremely limited compared with the normal capacities of the animals concerned ( Pasik and Pasik 1982 ) .
26 The provision of cellular links by independent operators is an increasing trend for radio and there is some evidence that companies would like to set up their own private networks .
27 If the transition field fluctuates rapidly with a slight preference for the Pacific rim great circle , and there is some evidence from non-transitional fields for this , the sediments may average out in preference for one of the two paths , explaining the extraordinary longitudinal confinement .
28 Treachery is unlikely , but the decision not to attack the Scottish camp , and not to pursue the Scots when they broke camp , suggests at the very least a lack of confidence and judgement amongst the English commanders , and there is some evidence of disagreement amongst them about the tactics they should adopt .
29 Foreign firms find it difficult to believe that Japanese costs are really low enough to justify such low prices and there is some evidence that the domestic prices of equivalent goods are higher .
30 One purpose of Edward I 's Recogniciones feodorum of 1274–5 was to ascertain the number and nature of allodial tenures in the duchy and there is some evidence for the ‘ feudaliz-ation ’ of allods by the king-duke after that date .
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