Example sentences of "and be [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ley hunters today tend to think of leys purely as alignments and are to some extent dubious about Watkins 's idea of old straight tracks-though the South American paths do present a question mark here . |
| 2 | Indices such as the dependency ratio are widely quoted and are of some use in portraying overall trends and relationships between different elements of the population of Specific countries ( or any other geographical area ) . |
| 3 | An study by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds has shown how EC " structural " funds , designed to alleviate poverty , fail to account for the environment and are in some cases responsible for the destruction of habitats and extinction of species . |
| 4 | They had an extraordinary tension and were in some ways quite different from the earlier recording . |
| 5 | The contrast between professional norms and bureaucratic norms is a familiar theme in the literature on professions , and is to some extent exemplified in the ambiguous relationship between academics and administrators in higher education itself . |
| 6 | George is quite realistic throughout the book and is in some cases , justifiably pessimistic . |
| 7 | While possessing females is important to the young males , and is in some sense the whole point of the evolutionary process , it is not necessarily the basic motivating factor [ in intra-male fighting ] . |
| 8 | This story , which deserves attention and is in some ways unique , is told in Chapter 7 . |
| 9 | The point at which this occurs is known as the FLORY or THETA point and is in some ways analogous to the Boyle point for a non-ideal gas . |
| 10 | James Smith from Leeds recently purchased a copy of the legendary Elite , and is after some tips that work . |
| 11 | She was unable to manage her food preparation or heat regulation and was at some risk from gas and on roads . |
| 12 | In a letter for publication , Williamson had drawn attention to the fact that he drove a Jaguar and was for some time after known to the Gadfly column as ‘ Jaguar Man . ’ |
| 13 | In 1893 the eminent physiologist J. S. Burdon-Sanderson ( 1828–1905 ) told the British Association for the Advancement of Science that ‘ oecology ’ was one of the three great divisions of biology , along with physiology and morphology , and was in some ways the most attractive of the three because it came closest to the spirit of what had once been called the ‘ philosophy of living nature ’ . |