Example sentences of "[be] [adv] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been dead some time . ’ |
| 2 | She was cold , she had been dead some time . |
| 3 | Having said that I mean I think there there has been obviously some concern about some security measures , other than terrorist or so called terrorist threats in relation to staff personal security in the building which is why we 've actually moved towards more one stop per section area so there are limits to where the public are actually free to move around the building . |
| 4 | of which we are all some part . |
| 5 | Six of the side — Julie Hall , Helen Dobson , Elaine Farquharson , Catriona Lambert , Kathryn Imrie and Linzi Fletcher — are all some way short of their 25th birthdays , while Helen Wadsworth , 26 , and Vicki Thomas , 36 , are hardly in the Methuselah class ! |
| 6 | The visitor pressures at Younger , Dawyck and Logan Gardens are much less severe , since these Gardens are all some way from major population centres , and Younger and Dawyck in particular have the acreage to provide for visitor dispersion . |
| 7 | The first rocks you pass are already some zoo million years old . |
| 8 | These are just some design pointers . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , so you 're just some sort of brief acquaintance , then ? ’ she murmured , adding softly as she prepared to sip her drink , so that only Robyn could catch her words , ‘ Luke tends to have those from time to time . |
| 10 | Apart from us there are usually some research students on the island and up to six overnight guests and six volunteers who come from all over the world on working holidays . |
| 11 | It proves there are still some kind people about . |
| 12 | Regan ( 1977 ) complains about the lack of statistics on their background but says there are still some subject areas where inspectors only have experience of grammar and independent schools . |
| 13 | Professional researchers are still some way behind . |
| 14 | We are still some way from forming a just estimate of the influence exercised by Curtis and his friends of the Round Table on the imperial policy of the British government . |
| 15 | ‘ We are still some way from viability , ’ Brian Cox admits . |
| 16 | But regulations for implementation of this legislation are also some way off . |
| 17 | I 'll never even dare to be successful , because when I 'm dead some clod with a thesis to write will put me down as a wild-eyed harridan who jumped on her lover in the street and pulled all his hair out because he 'd gone off with a person with webbed feet . |
| 18 | But if if if if you are saying that calculation of housing provision includes conversions , I 'm somewhat some guidance on how much provision will have to made from new built sites , and somebody 's going to have to make an intelligent assumption about how much is coming forward from conversions . |
| 19 | Must be obviously some break in , you know , |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm still some sort of bird , ’ said Marina . |
| 21 | They continue to grow in size and influence and they appear to be still some way from peaking . |
| 22 | It 'll be here some time all right , it 's on Hanlon 's list and today 's their day to deliver if the old horse is able , tell her . " |
| 23 | It is not necessary to believe that Christ will be here tomorrow , although it may help to believe that he will be here some time . |
| 24 | So she leaves about ten she 'll be here some time after ten wo n't she ? |
| 25 | ‘ Well , ’ said the executive , ‘ if things keep going on the way they are , I 'll be there some day catching for that guy and I want to make sure I know his curves . ’ |
| 26 | They say she 'll be there some time . ’ |
| 27 | " That might be quite some time , we think he 's English . |
| 28 | It will be quite some time before all your suggestions are processed in details but I know you will be interested in some of the preliminary findings . |
| 29 | ‘ It must be quite some fund , ’ Alison said , raising her voice to reach him . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've been here some time now and it 's never happened before . ’ |