Example sentences of "[verb] [Wh det] be [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | Before turning to the grounds of appeal there are two matters which I must mention which are of some importance . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |