Example sentences of "[pron] be [prep] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I must say I am at some loss as to why you should be so concerned with these most trivial of errors . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I am to some extent on home ground there , ’ she said , reluctantly and not looking at him . |
| 3 | Perhaps it stems from a sensation that I am in some way making a prediction of awful catastrophe , and not just telling a story . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I am in some pain . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I am in some pain . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ 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 ! ’ |
| 8 | We ourselves are to some extent part of this problem , but we do at least live and work in the village full time . |
| 9 | Could I be of some assistance ? |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm like some kind of hearse . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Erm I 'm in I 'm in some difficulty because this is this is a matter that 's arisen since the original matters er matters for discussion were drawn up so I 'm not able to give you the formal views of the council in that respect . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm glad I was of some use to you , ’ she said , unable to keep an edge of tartness from her voice . |
| 14 | In other words , I was to some extent leading the British public astray . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In fact , I was for some time of the opinion that this huge challenge ahead of us could not be surmounted without my bringing in additional staff from outside . |
| 17 | Lest anybody should have got the idea from my August column that I was in some way in favour of four-year funding of students of architecture , let me set the record straight . |
| 18 | I always gave my husband the benefit of the doubt and ‘ buried ’ his brutality because I was so ashamed and felt that I was in some way to blame . |
| 19 | And even if I was in some way trying to do this , I certainly did n't succeed . |
| 20 | I was in some kind of trance . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | When I woke up I was in some back alley . |
| 23 | I was in some doubt as to whether the Corporal had stumbled upon us accidentally on his way out of the town or if he 'd been deliberately tasked . |
| 24 | This emphasis reappears in the ‘ process ’ justifications of higher education , advanced both by its providers and consumers , in terms of training the mind , learning to think , developing autonomy and so on , notions which are to some extent ‘ subject-free ’ , and which will be explored further in Chapter 4 . |
| 25 | Much of this area has been introduced by the analysis of social distance ; there are , however , other social factors which are of some importance . |
| 26 | Before turning to the grounds of appeal there are two matters which I must mention which are of some importance . |
| 27 | I argued that the representational theory of mind , with its assumption that thinking is the possession of determinate ‘ mental states ’ which are in some sense encodings ( pictorial , syntactic ) of actual or possible states of affairs , contributes to the difficulty of the mind-body problem . |
| 28 | Spelling correction algorithms usually suggest a few alternative words which are in some sense similar to the detected misspelled word . |
| 29 | The meaning of a typical sentence in a natural language is complex in that it results from the combination of meanings which are in some sense simpler . |
| 30 | It is the fear of losing love , friendship , or both that provides the means whereby the conscience warns the individual of the consequences of performing acts which are in some way hurtful to other creatures . |