Example sentences of "be [adv] [prep] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Ramey also explains that when couples are together for some time their hormone levels often begin to co-ordinate in the same way , so regular sex — say on Saturday nights — mean you tune into each other 's hormone levels . |
| 2 | Or if members of a group are not familiar with each other , no mutual aid may occur until they have been together for some time . |
| 3 | The couple live apart and although they have been together for some time , you sense Clint 's fingers have been burned by his previous bad experiences . |
| 4 | Once you are fully better , and have been so for some time , you can risk the occasional slice of white bread or a sliver of cake . |
| 5 | Plants are normally under some form of stress — heat or light stress are two of many forms — but nevertheless plants are generally healthy , from which we may conclude that nature is continually carrying out a delicate balancing act among the contributing reactions making up the complete photosynthetic ‘ machinery ’ . |
| 6 | They are thus to some extent limited in where they can invest , as we discuss further in chapter 6 . |
| 7 | The different methods do not react to the same types of buried feature , and are thus to some extent complementary . |
| 8 | But it is as well for high-profile entrepreneurs to remember that they are always at some risk of being damned by association if they use structures that appear , or can with journalistic licence be made to appear , too close to those behind which fraudsters have hidden . |
| 9 | What they show is that no matter how objective or impartial enquiries may seek or claim to be they are always in some degree preconceived because they are preconditioned by cultural assumptions of one sort or another . |
| 10 | Bear in mind how things are still to some extent put into newspapers these days . |
| 11 | The location and seriousness of the incident are still in some doubt . |
| 12 | Although the slimmer and the anorexic are both to some extent governed by anxiety , there is an important difference between them . |
| 13 | A dolphin school will often divide up into subgroups while searching for food , which separate and spread out over a wide area of sea , still diving synchronously — evidence that they are probably in some form of acoustic contact . |
| 14 | But semantically innocuous re-orderings are also to some extent resisted : |
| 15 | The mammalian carnivores are also of some antiquity . |
| 16 | Demographic techniques are also of some use in ecological surveillance where there is interest in the breeding stability of a colony of birds or animals or where concern exists over culling programmes or the depletion of fish stocks . |
| 17 | All of the uses found of such blends which contain the bare infinitive are also in some way non-assertive , although this non-assertiveness can take on some very subtle forms . |
| 18 | There are plenty of interfering factors but these are inevitably to some extent weakened by a rational understanding of them , at least when this engages appropriately with our basic conatus ( or effort to preserve our own nature ) and thereby acquires the requisite emotional power . |
| 19 | The ‘ Great Debate ’ about education had been underway for some time and though it was clear that the curriculum was in need of change , it was less clear how much change should take place at Hinde House , bearing in mind the need for teachers to have ownership of curriculum delivery if higher standards and a wide range of learning experiences were to permeate the whole curriculum rather than making a series of peripheral and ephemeral alterations to an already redundant approach . |
| 20 | Er in fact erm it could be perhaps plus some investment income as well , let's say that his wife though , er she , he 's go he 's got the erm five one six five allowance , so he 's going to pay tax on whatever else he earns in other words . |
| 21 | Father will be away for some time , and I 'm very worried . ’ |
| 22 | The empty refrigerator and the absence of perishable food like bread and milk suggested that Stavanger had left expecting to be away for some time , but that conflicted with the pyjamas under the pillow in the bedroom , and the razor in the bathroom . |
| 23 | I 'm still on some stuff . |
| 24 | Thus we have to say of medieval popular drama that the sense of ritual ‘ presence ’ , of the kind still indicated by the formalized words and movements of the mass , has significantly changed , but may in some new combination of signals be still to some extent active , in ways that it is clearly -not in later forms and systems . |
| 25 | I 'm here for some time , not forever . |
| 26 | ‘ You 're in here , ’ Ven remarked , taking up her case and heading for the door on the left of the French windows — and as she followed him into a pleasant bedroom , ‘ With luck , by the time you 've unpacked , the waiter will be here with some tea . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ We will be here for some time . |
| 28 | I shall be here for some time . |
| 29 | ‘ I shall be here for some time . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ My men will be here for some time yet , and I 'll leave someone here on duty all night . |