Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [prep] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brittany had long since been in some way subject to Normandy . |
| 2 | The fact that the power of was not confined to the Mufti alone is of some importance in assessing the nature of the Muftilik in general and will therefore be dealt with in greater detail further on ; suffice it to say for the moment that Mustakimzade 's argument is disappointing in its lack of development and of positive evidence in support of it and that , in the terms in which it is stated and in view of the material he seems to have used in compiling his book , his argument might equally well apply to Molla Fenari . |
| 3 | They have not been for some time except to people who still remember The Beatles and The Animals . |
| 4 | The sense of national community is not helped by exhortations to cheer for England in Test Matches and the implication that those who do not are in some sense not good British citizens , and yet this sort of crude and simplistic interpretation of the obligations of citizenship was heard from some politicians in 1990 . |
| 5 | Besides , everyone who matters has already been to some sort of bash at the Natural History Museum ; this is new . |
| 6 | Most of our advertisers have already been in some form of advertising before . |
| 7 | she just been over some house in Trafford Road and er , I think she left some , some by there by what she said or to who , who it were , but it must of been them who put them onto us , because she come in |
| 8 | A clarification of what society expects of directors might nevertheless be of some value in combination with other measures . |
| 9 | However , other retailers of the product will normally be under some obligation not to seek customers actively in R 2 's industry . |
| 10 | Could you please make these adjustments for the next matrix list which I realise will not be for some time and , in fact , by that time Karen will be off on maternity leave but I leave it to you whether you want to slot in Joan and Jane for that period . |
| 11 | We still are in some necessity of joiners and coopers and any trades ; for the rest , we are buying slaves from the same merchants who put in to anchor here and take on our water and our salt . |
| 12 | Owing to his lack of resources he had always been to some extent a figurehead , but he had become an indispensable one . |
| 13 | But it does mean that cross-addiction is a factor that may possibly be of some influence in all of this and that it is a factor that may need to be taken into consideration in the long term in attempting to improve the over all quality of recovery . |
| 14 | Twenty-three per cent of them thought that ‘ they could possibly be of some use with certain reservations ’ and 27 per cent of them considered them to be of no use at all . |
| 15 | The relief of being able to talk about the problem at all will probably be of some comfort . |
| 16 | According to this , ethical propositions do not say something which can be either true or false in the sense of reporting or misreporting how things really are in some realm of values ( though we can call them ‘ true ’ or ‘ false ’ to signal our agreement or disagreement ) . |
| 17 | " I have n't been for some time . |
| 18 | " No , and there have n't been for some time . " |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm not sure that we have n't been at some point , ’ says Mr Garner . |
| 20 | ( 1966 : 72 ) recognized such unobtrusive measures have found favour in field-work and I discovered at an early stage that the problem remains one of revealing the structural warts of the system while somehow indicating that this need not be seditious ; and indeed might even be of some value . |
| 21 | You 're growing up , yes , but you 're not grown-up and you wo n't be for some time , and in the meantime you 're still my girl . |
| 22 | There would n't be anyone , she thought , who could get hold of someone tonight , who would n't be in some blotto clinch later ; but it would be mutual , a tenderness of lust , like the balmy air , not rough . |
| 23 | We also know that A and B are not in the same place ( or at least are at some distance from one another ) . |
| 24 | The concordance between Is for some attribute ( e.g. IQ ) may be higher than that between Ns so that we can infer a genetic effect . |
| 25 | Although this may sound harsh and unreasonable , experience has made it hard for me to trust women who have never been through some form of separatist reaction . |
| 26 | Pakistan had recently been under some pressure from the USA to formulate a fresh political initiative on Afghanistan . |
| 27 | A word or two about the company might therefore be of some interest . |