Example sentences of "[prep] [be] some " in BNC.

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1 That must of been some time ago
2 it 's sort of in relation to it , there must of been some reason why he said that to take them to , hear more to other people
3 There must of been some particular reason why , why , why he mentioned that , which maybe might be difficult to try and realize
4 there must of been some relation problem with each other , the earlier erm thing
5 It must of enlightened them on what the scriptures meant , by the sacred secret , cos before it must of been some kind of weird mystery to them
6 yeah , but she charges five pound cos there must of been some little bits over
7 His opponent was a little Jewish chap of the Gorbals , and a full six inches shorter , not to mention the disadvantage of being some three stones lighter .
8 Diplodocus was remarkably lithe , weighing only 10 tons in spite of being some 28 metres long .
9 So Mains did gain the reputation of being some rather grim eminence locked in his southern castle and given to humourless comment about the rugby matters of the day .
10 The genome of is some 14 Mbp long divided into three chromosomes ( 9 ) .
11 The Spadeadam Rocket Establishment came into being some time after 1950 when the Cold War was at its height .
12 The Examination Council came into being some erm nine months ago and has already been involved in quite a lot of activity , I mean particularly the erm problem of sixteen-plus examining , whether we should move from a system of erm O-levels and C S E , or to a combined system , Sixteen-plus Examination it would probably be called .
13 gave a lecture and all she came in with was some notes written out on some full scape paper and some papers for the over head projector
14 Got ta be some override …
15 so there 's got ta be some hope for those that have , have gone lost or whatever has n't there ?
16 Indeed it seemed to me that what they were involved in was some sort of violence , and I felt frightened .
17 The Hon. Peter Horbury appeared to be some ten or twelve years younger than the earl .
18 There had to be some missing piece to Jane 's story .
19 Mr Grimstone stressed that the perks would only be available to those who registered their interest in advance , with the cut-off date likely to be some time in mid-November .
20 Now , his songs are intended as the real thing , but widely assumed to be some sort of parody .
21 There appeared to be some similarity with the decline of Macmillan 's regime in the early sixties — Cabinet reshuffles ; acute balance of payments ' difficulties , a shaky pound , and high interest rates ; a renewal of strikes on the railways , the docks , and in local government services ; a somewhat disaffected public apprehensive at Britain 's declining power in the world .
22 A potential recording artist must realize there have to be some compromises between art and business .
23 I thought it was all a joke , you 've really got to be some schmuck to fall for that one .
24 The detailed explanation of what makes us feel alert is not known , but it is certain to be some function of brain activity , and brain activity increases with body temperature .
25 As with many other aspects of development , it is likely to be some mixture of ‘ nature and nurture ’ .
26 It would have to be some unusual visitor to be thus announced by Matron .
27 And there always seems to be some shed which has been taken down somewhere , yielding very inflammable material , so we show no signs of running short .
28 There are rumoured to be some hard men in town .
29 This event , billed to take place in London this week under the auspices of the Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain ( Marxist-Leninist ) , was previously thought to be some sort of mirage .
30 Britain is over-producing : there will have to be some way of reducing output .
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