Example sentences of "[adj] be [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there must also be ships , and while France could not provide a sufficient number of them for herself , she was obliged ( as the English were on some occasions ) to seek them elsewhere . |
| 2 | However , as table 5.2 and figure 5.2 show , the other very important component of the trend is that more people than before are living to be very old , into the high eighties and nineties , and this is to some degree due to changing mortality trends at later ages . |
| 3 | It is in fact the commercially provided infrastructure that is most lacking , and many people live a long way from a shop , although this is to some extent made up for by mobile shops . |
| 4 | While this is to some extent true , it does not mean that workers in small firms are not expected to show family-style loyalties . |
| 5 | Although this is to some extent true of all financial intermediation , it is particularly relevant to the operations of pension funds . |
| 6 | This is to some extent contradicted by Lloyd George , who subsequently wrote : ‘ It is now a matter of history how we expressed our readiness to serve under Mr Balfour-all of us except Mr Asquith , who asked indignantly , ‘ What is the proposal ? |
| 7 | Although this is to some extent part of any clinical consultation , it can be approached more quantitatively . |
| 8 | I hope that all this is of some help to the new knitters and will encourage them to learn to lover their Duomatics as much as I love mine . |
| 9 | This is of some interest to me , working as a teacher of outdoor pursuits with girls ( and boys ) on Merseyside . |
| 10 | I hope this is of some use to you . |
| 11 | I hope this is of some use to you . |
| 12 | The only way around this is through some sort of arrangement with the TNCs . |
| 13 | It seems to be generally agreed that this is in some way ‘ special ’ , and peculiar to English . |
| 14 | This is in some ways a departure for many house churches which have been strongly pastoral in emphasis . |
| 15 | However I tend to score it much much on a much lower scale because A of the need for the associated infrastructure involved , that will have a very severe impact , and B ma'am the landscape quality , there is the area is of some is of some quality , it is not an area of derelict land as I say . |
| 16 | There is a self that coheres over time , so that a person p 2 at time t 2 is in some sense identical to the person p 1 at time t 1 . |
| 17 | But as you can see quite clearly from the table , other things were not equal : there was a massive release of liquidity to the private sector from the repayment of public debt ( item 2 ) and an even more massive increase in bank lending ( item 3 ) , although this was to some extent offset by a large increase in the currency flow deficit ( an outflow of funds under item 4 ) . |
| 18 | Whilst this was of some concern to Anne , who relied greatly on Joan , it was of no concern to Joan herself : enthralled by everything she saw , by fairytale glimpses of the capital , the palace and the royal family , she viewed everything and everyone with avid interest . |
| 19 | ‘ This was in some way part of the whole thing , that I 'd blurt out what I 'd done and she 'd ask to see and I 'd have it on hand to show her . ’ |
| 20 | At that moment this was in some doubt . |
| 21 | This was in some ways just as dramatic as that of the 1980s , if only because of the very large warships — and their great number — being deployed in the area . |
| 22 | A lack of mobility on the part of many within the cities has inevitably meant that an increasing number of those remaining are in some way disadvantaged ( Redfern , 1982 ; Office of Population Censuses and Surveys , 1984 ) . |
| 23 | To get round this uncomfortable fact Fforde would have to argue either that all collectivist legislation emanated from governments of the left , or that all Conservative governments before 1979 were in some way not truly Conservative . |
| 24 | The choice by the Queen of Lord Home in 1963 was of some importance since the circumstances in which it took place illustrated the difficulties of the process and led fairly quickly to the adoption by the Conservative Party of a leadership election process that was designed ( like the Labour Party 's leadership election ) to make the choice of a Prime Ministerial successor a constitutional formality . |
| 25 | These were to some extent offset by the firm 's success in pre-empting new markets . |
| 26 | Each member of the visiting party , which was chaired by Edwin Kerr , reported back to the group on separate initial discussions with the faculties these were in some disarray . |
| 27 | The patrician planners of the late 1940s were in some retreat a decade later . |
| 28 | The long running teachers ' dispute which began in November 1984 was to some extent a response to the way the education service had been handled by three successive governments . |
| 29 | All religions possess truth , but all are to some extent erroneous . |
| 30 | All are in some degree endangered . |