Example sentences of "is [vb pp] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latest tomb to be found is situated some 250m west of the first at the base of an adobe truncated pyramid called Huaca Loro and contains a wide range of funerary offerings weighing in all around 1.2 tons . |
| 2 | Once the schema is broken some interests will be affected more than others — hence the erection of barriers to change . |
| 3 | While noting that Parolles is given some kind of dignity in verse , we should also observe that Shakespeare seldom ends a scene with a soliloquy in prose — Thersites and Falstaff are the only characters who do so more than once . |
| 4 | If you are acting for a builder-seller selling a new dwelling and the builder is on the National House-Building Council 's register ( Chapter 13 ) , you may not , unless the property is completed some time before completion of the sale , have received the standard notice of insurance cover to hand over , in which case you will give an undertaking to do so as soon as it comes to hand . |
| 5 | Scotland is owed some £437 million in unpaid poll tax . |
| 6 | Here , in Madeleine L'Engle 's Meet the Austins , worldly success is made some sort of virtue , as it is in her A wrinkle in time ( 1963 , p.30 ) : ‘ You 've met my mother , have n't you ? |
| 7 | With static systems , recognition is performed some time after the handwriting has been produced . |
| 8 | An election is promised some time next year , but critics are alarmed by the appointment of Sheikh Salem as deputy prime minister and foreign minister ; in his old job as interior minister , Sheikh Salem had no time for the regime 's opponents . |
| 9 | Shoppers in Abingdon must be hoping an agreement is reached some time before the next century . |
| 10 | Similarly , the painted jay , Cyanocorax dickeyi , in western Mexico is found some 4000km from the possibly conspecific white-tailed jay , C. mystacalis of Ecuador and Peru , and may thus be another pre-Columbian exotic introduction . |
| 11 | But he is accorded some sort of grudging acceptance by ‘ James , the brother of the Lord ’ , who dispatches him to Tarsus , to preach there . |
| 12 | Active tenants ' and residents ' committees in your block or area are a good sign : they give you a point of contact with neighbours and usually mean that your environment is afforded some degree of protection by the efforts of these people . |