Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] be [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Swedish international Limpar 's future is in some doubt at Highbury . |
| 2 | Erm now we have , as an authority to negotiate er , to put that land together erm the Scout 's hut is on some of that land at the moment , and we 've failed er , to do that in the past . |
| 3 | As the Secretary of State has said , today 's debate is to some extent a re-run of the debate that took place on 16 April , and we shall be deploying some of the same arguments . |
| 4 | Golding 's novel is to some degree experimental in style , and when we read it , we sense there is something " odd " about Lok 's language . |
| 5 | The BBC 's loyalty was to some profounder purpose . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Today , Sartre 's voluntarism is to some extent returning to favour as the result of a desire to retrieve the categories of agency and the subject , which goes together with the wish to get out of the apparently totalizing systems of Adorno , Althusser or Foucault . |
| 8 | In tone and content Mr Patten 's speech was of some significance , coming like a breath of damp air into the dry and brittle atmosphere of the Winter Garden . |