Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] be [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm and clearly you know they are of some use . |
| 2 | ‘ Its distinctive feature is the outer wall facing what was for some time the running lines of the railway , though these tracks are now wholly within the works area , the main lines passing on the other side of the canal . |
| 3 | Eric , who was going through a religious phase at the time which I suppose I was to some extent copying , thought this was a terrible thing to say ; God was n't like that . |
| 4 | Scrawls I might enjoy , on their own , but unfortunately they are not just mere scuttles — oh , no , it seems I 'm in some kind of a scuttle-free universe — these scuttles spell something . |
| 5 | In the gloom I felt I was in some kind of an enclosure and told the rear gunner to get out and find out where we were . |
| 6 | Before turning to the grounds of appeal there are two matters which I must mention which are of some importance . |
| 7 | Even though we do n't have major problems with drug or solvent abuse in Northern Ireland , sudden changes in behaviour could mean they are in some kind of trouble . |
| 8 | Simon , a manager who , at 39 , is the oldest person questioned , says : ‘ The idea that people will think it is in some way impressive to be seen drinking low-alcohol muck is obvious nonsense . ’ |
| 9 | He thinks he 's on some sort of blacklist because he was in the International Brigade . ’ |
| 10 | Its relative freedom from the demands of traditional methodology even produces what is in some ways a stronger account of an autonomous , integrated subject , which includes both objective and subjective characteristics . |
| 11 | That it was a Saturday morning had made his presence possible — he would not have accepted the invitation had it been on some date in the week — and carriages had already piled behind one another in the main street ; evidently it was to be a large party . |
| 12 | But I must say I am at some loss as to why you should be so concerned with these most trivial of errors . ’ |
| 13 | I think from my reflection , they did say they were at some stage in the future , they 've not ruled it out . |
| 14 | The navigator claims it was like some sort of gateway through time but his captain died and he 's obviously space-happy . |
| 15 | An important indication ( although , as we shall see , not a sufficient one ) that a portion of a sentence is a semantic constituent is that its semantic contribution to the sentence is the same as that which it makes to other , different sentences ; in other words , it carries what is in some sense a constant meaning from context to context . |
| 16 | But the chief aim was to construct what was in some ways an analogue of the dynamics of the personnel situation which could be watched almost while it moved . |