Example sentences of "[be] in some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're in some kind of spiritual trouble . |
| 2 | If you 're in some kind of jam with the law , I might not get paid . |
| 3 | So if I short er short circuit the rest of my cross examination on these various policies that you say er we 're in erm we 're in some measure of conflict with , your answer would be in in relation to E N V Eleven and E N V Twelve which you also cite , do I put it fairly your answer would be this ? |
| 4 | of a well not exactly a disaster , but if ev if ever you 're in some sort of uncomfortable plight er stuck in a train or anything like that the way t to cope is to go off to sleep if you can |
| 5 | Perhaps it stems from a sensation that I am in some way making a prediction of awful catastrophe , and not just telling a story . |
| 6 | I will pass in silence over my feelings for you , for they can mean little to you at present ( though I am in some doubt as to when ‘ at present ’ is ) , though I assure you that what briefly flowered between us one morning is a blossom that will not perish , however many mornings remain . |
| 7 | I am in some pain . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I am in some pain . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Mr Beckenham , since I am in some sort indebted to you , I will , if you please , refrain from making you any answer , for I can not take it upon myself to do so without speaking to you in a manner which must sound both insolent and ungrateful ! ’ |
| 10 | Has the LDDC , in spite of all the hype and political prominence , been in some sense a failure ? |
| 11 | Sentencing McPherson , the judge , Lord Cameron , said he accepted that McPherson had been in some part less responsible for the violence to Mr O'Donnell that evening , but added : ‘ Nevertheless you played a full part in luring him into the hands of those who were responsible for repeated acts of a bizarre and terrible character upon him . ’ |
| 12 | Therefore if we have activists who are put on the panel alib fi safe seats , marginals or unwinnable seats and we 've been in some areas where it 's been unwinnable , have n't we Dick , we 've still canvassed , we 've got the votes up , p places like Macclesfield where they got Nicholas Winterton , where they got that racist Churchill . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The growth of the Theatre Collection has been in some way analogous to that of the proverbial snowball , for as its reputation has increased so too has the number of donations and bequests in the form of private collections , both large and small . |
| 15 | Brittany had long since been in some way subject to Normandy . |
| 16 | Among those who regarded Faustus as their spiritual master was Sidonius , whose brother had been in some way saved by the bishop . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Here , the appropriate leader of change had been in some doubt . |
| 19 | The future of the Cotswold line from Oxford to Worcester , has been in some doubt following a leaked BR report which revealed that it was to have no further investment , despite its pre-war signalling and rustic stations . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Though his thought may have been in some respects dry and narrow as a result , he set the agenda for modern philosophy and theology . |
| 22 | They were n't twins , but they could have been in some respects , she realised . |
| 23 | Boy thought that this had been in some ways the perfect night , the best that he had ever had since he 'd arrived at The Bar . |
| 24 | They have been in some ways too successful . |
| 25 | At the end of the sixteenth century the ‘ crowned republic ’ of Poland had been in some ways one of the great powers of Europe . |
| 26 | If he had been in some sort of trance , ( lasting who knew how long ? ) that might account for the sudden appearance of Jos . |
| 27 | They seem to have been in some sort of vassal relationship with the Dzhungars until they broke away in the 1650s and 1660s . |
| 28 | Most of our advertisers have already been in some form of advertising before . |
| 29 | Probably , for we later read that ‘ want of opportunity has been in some respect a prejudice to my business ’ , and , ‘ the noble act of embalming has been entirely ruined by the undertakers ’ . |
| 30 | The dissidents who resigned from his ‘ cabinet ’ look ominously like a vanguard of the fundamentalist persuasion which has been in some abeyance since the defeat of Jim Sillars . |