Example sentences of "to be [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , the authority of the lecturer in the teaching relationship has to be to some degree granted by the student . |
| 2 | The graduate in English was to be to some extent a scholar , in so far as he or she had a sense of the past and the capacity to understand literature in its historical contexts , particularly linguistic ; beyond that , what was looked for was wide reading , an appreciation of masterpieces , and a capacity to write well , attend to evidence , and disentangle sense from nonsense in argument . |
| 3 | Emerson revealed that both those who continued working and those who retired ‘ appeared to be to some extent affected by rather garbled information concerning retirement impact ’ ( Emerson 1959 ) . |
| 4 | Secondly , an exemption clause may be partially effective if it is shown to be to some extent reasonable . |
| 5 | The Unix systems management market is thought to be worth some $40m now — its expected to top $1bn by 1997/98 . |
| 6 | The Unix systems management market is thought to be worth some $40m now — its expected to top $1,000m by 1997-98 . |
| 7 | The Financial Times of Nov. 27 , 1989 , reported that the United Kingdom was seeking to arrange a £2,000 million bank loan to finance Saudi Arabia 's continued purchase of British arms under the massive Al-Yamamah arms deal first agreed in 1985 and expanded in 1988 [ see pp. 34012 ; 36312 ; 36952 ] , chiefly involving the purchase of Tornado fighter-bombers built by British Aerospace ( BAe ) and currently estimated to be worth some £20,000 million . |
| 8 | Lastly , the points used in the control group can not be regarded as suitable : electrical stimulation of needles only 2 cm from the real points is unlikely to be without some effect . |
| 9 | It was all at my fingertips and I was only too pleased to be of some assistance , from whatever quarter the request came . |
| 10 | So here , for the fraught and confused among you , is a short guide to male restaurant etiquette that may prove to be of some assistance . |
| 11 | He was a man apart , a man desperate to be of some use , driven to understand the purpose of life and his role within it . |
| 12 | He , while happy to be of some use , was not content that inequality on this scale should persist — inequality of opportunity , of course , for as a station-master he was a hierarchical man . |
| 13 | It really gives me a kick to be of some use like this . ’ |
| 14 | The building is supposed to be of some importance , architecturally . |
| 15 | Since this second sufficient condition turns out to be of some importance , it might be useful to have an intuitive idea of what is involved . |
| 16 | Grade III buildings were those which , whilst not qualifying for the first statutory list when compiled in 1949–69 , were considered nevertheless to be of some importance for planning purposes . |
| 17 | For this reason , the fourth edition of Coopers ' manual will continue to be of some value . |
| 18 | ‘ My feeling was that if this was the last thing I was going to do , I wanted it to be of some value . |
| 19 | Ostensibly asexual lineages of fish and salamanders have been shown by analysis of their mitochondrial DNA to be of some antiquity ( 4–5 million and 100,000 years , respectively ) . |
| 20 | In Cornwall , which has a very attractive image , in-migration of firms seems to be in some cases linked with a form of semi-retirement by owners . |
| 21 | Yet they can be shown to be in some sense the implicit guardians of morality . |
| 22 | For Kelsen , the dynamic principle is characteristic of legal positivism which understands law to be in some sense a product of human acts and decisions rather than a deduction from timeless and immutable principles . |
| 23 | It is said that if the Logos is to be conceived to be in some sense male , then equally the Spirit is to be held to be female . |
| 24 | However , since representations of satyrs are often given negroid features , there is a suggestion that negroes were considered to be in some sense monstrous . |
| 25 | The sacrilege lies in the desire on the part of the murderer to mutilate what we understand to be in some sense the image of God . |
| 26 | Although President George Bush won the primary , his margin of victory over right-wing challenger Patrick Buchanan was unconvincing , and by the end of the month the Bush campaign appeared to be in some disarray . |
| 27 | I would just like to answer one or two things , erm , erm , he , he , one of the things he 's saying er , is that erm , oh dear I 've forgotten what I was going to say now , and I have n't got it written down , got it written down , can I go on to something else erm , the Home Secretary does seem to be in some disarray over the proposed bill . |
| 28 | When this is no longer so , the fact of a male priesthood makes God appear to be in some way peculiarly male , such that He needs a male priesthood to represent Him . |
| 29 | Connected speech processes ( CSP ) are phenomena such as the deletions and assimilations characteristic of allegro speech , which appear to be in some way phonetically motivated rather than linguistically arbitrary variation . |
| 30 | Product differentiation is the process by which specific features , characteristics and attributes are built in to the product or service So that the consumer perceives it to be in some way different from ( and preferably superior to ) competing products . |