Example sentences of "[verb] be [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It may be that demands were made beyond the capability of a particular individual , or the person concerned may simply have been to some degree in ill health . |
| 32 | The other , John Beaumont , may also have been to some extent Gloucester 's man since he and his putative father Sir Henry Bodrugan went on to become supporters of Richard III in the region . |
| 33 | The other , John Beaumont , may also have been to some extent Gloucester 's man since he and his putative father Sir Henry Bodrugan went on to become supporters of Richard III in the region . |
| 34 | A good response to training was associated with improved squeeze duration in our patients , but increased conidence in mastering anorectal function may also have been of some benefit . |
| 35 | Gould 's arrangements for his own children were meticulously considered , which must have been of some consolation to his wife , who had dutifully resolved to accompany her husband to Australia . |
| 36 | It must have been at some time , because I can speak it now . |
| 37 | This very large accession takes up where the first deposit stopped , and covers the years 1861 to 1920 , in addition to some titles and papers of earlier date which must have been at some time extracted from their proper place . |
| 38 | It must have been with some degree of cautiousness and a heightened sense of responsibility that Gould once more stocked up on shot , caps , and powder on his way back through Launceston for the journey home . |
| 39 | If I could have departed then , never reentered the house , it would have been with some strength of mind . |
| 40 | This being must have been in some way necessary to humanity , it is inconceivable that this is not so , for surely there would have been evidence of at least one enduring civilisation that had neither ‘ god ’ nor temple . |
| 41 | An argument for the co-evolution of dispersers and their trees is that they , in contrast , avoid the seeds , though in the past such seeds may have been in some way indigestible , promoting the relationship of today . |
| 42 | Though his thought may have been in some respects dry and narrow as a result , he set the agenda for modern philosophy and theology . |
| 43 | They were n't twins , but they could have been in some respects , she realised . |
| 44 | The tightly packed schiltrons might have been in some danger if the enemy 's Welsh archers had been used at once ; but Edward or his advisers thought they could settle things swiftly by an all-out cavalry charge . |
| 45 | I was offered post-natal support having been to some NCT ante-natal classes . |
| 46 | From the G M B point of view , of course , we have quite a sporting section and we 're proud to have this link er , with both of the organizations and we 're pleased to have been of some assistance to the er , British Boxers ' Asso Professional Boxers ' Association er , in er , this launch and establishment we felt , because we 've got the Scottish professional footballers , who are well established and er , are very much an integral part of the G M B and we 've got the Northern Ireland er , footballers , we 've got the rugby players and we 've got speedway riders all of which come under . |
| 47 | It is not known exactly how this operated , but it is presumed to have been on some kind of contract basis . |
| 48 | It appears to establish three categories : the first contains wordings generally agreed to be acceptable , the second wordings which appear to have been at some time problematic but are now acceptable , and the third wordings which remain inadmissible . |
| 49 | They seem to have been in some sort of vassal relationship with the Dzhungars until they broke away in the 1650s and 1660s . |
| 50 | Now if you cast your mind back to when we started the er discussion I did say I would talk about refer erm recommendations to you if you felt that this meeting had been of some benefit to yourself |
| 51 | In it she declared how glad she was to think : ‘ … that the letter written by me to the King of Prussia at a critical moment had been of some use ’ , though quite what effect the letter may have had is unfortunately not spelt out . |
| 52 | I knew only that it was dark , and had been for some while . |
| 53 | His interest in humanity now was stone dead , and probably had been for some time . |
| 54 | ‘ That you were having an affair — had been for some time . ’ |
| 55 | According to Alcuin the oppression of the Church by the secular power had been for some time a feature of Northumbrian political and ecclesiastical life , but the problem now was that Eanbald was said to be accompanied on his journeys through Northumbria by a retinue more numerous than any which had attended on his predecessors and inclusive of low-born soldiers , and Alcuin affected to be at a loss as to why he needed so large a force . |
| 56 | At this moment the King , who had been for some time busily writing in his notebook , called out , ‘ Silence ! ’ and read out from his book , ‘ Rule Forty-Two . |
| 57 | He said it was broken , had been for some time , and that if I wanted a toilet I should go to the cafe upstairs . |
| 58 | The initial impetus came from the Managing Director of one of the largest of the Harris Tweed manufacturers — the son of a crofter and himself a fisherman in his early days The Association was , however , given its distinctive shape and its constitution by the first chairman , Rev. Ian Carmichael , a Gaelic-speaker from Lismore who was a minister in Stornoway at the time , and who had had considerable experience of welfare work in industry , and had been for some years vice convener of one of the largest local authorities in Scotland . |
| 59 | While there clearly was an ‘ objective ’ discontinuity of subject perspective between selective school mathematics and the practice of some segments , increasingly dominant within some countries , of university mathematics , and had been for some years , it again required interested actors , utilizing the climate of ‘ crisis ’ resulting from the campaign on teacher supply as a major resource , to enter various arenas in order to persuade others of the ‘ need ’ for change . |
| 60 | " Yes , " said Clara , beginning to understand the nature of her mother 's satisfaction ; the lack of telephone of Mrs Hanney had been for some years a subject for discourse in a vein of amazed contempt . |