Example sentences of "it [modal v] [be] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the opposition has no experience of sheltering such a prominent figure underground , Mr Devaty 's move appears to have caught by surprise not only his friends , but the country 's creaky legal machinery , and it may be some time before his non-appearance prompts a full-scale police hunt for him . |
| 2 | Even if it may be some time before they are commercially acceptable , pioneer work is essential if our planet is to feed the teeming millions of people who will live on it by the twenty-first century . |
| 3 | Mr Patten said this would put Britain in front of Europe but acknowledged that it may be some time before it can be implemented . |
| 4 | It may be some time before the movement is strong enough to help the environmentalists in any significant way , both to save the Adriatic and to reinstitute sustainable and more human agriculture in the Po Valley . |
| 5 | Due to the much poorer state of play areas throughout other parts of the district it may be some time before improvements can be achieved . ’ |
| 6 | Although the project can provide advocates , Hickson says it may be some time before mothers want this service , and even then , ‘ we may have to keep the counselling and advocacy work separate ’ . |
| 7 | It may be some time yet before Mansell 's services are surplus to requirements . |
| 8 | Herons generally fish at dawn before the gardener has stirred and it may be some time before the pool-owner is aware that his fish are disappearing . |
| 9 | The hon. Gentleman is so distinguished that it may be some time since he has sat on a Standing Committee . |
| 10 | By its very nature , when delivered , bespoke software often contains errors and it may be some time before they can all be traced and corrected . |
| 11 | A post mortem on the body found yesterday has already been carried out , but it may be some time before it 's formally identified . |
| 12 | It may be some time coming . |
| 13 | But it may be some time before shoppers confidence is restored . |
| 14 | Because of the amount of work needed to put out the burning tip , it may be some time before this area of outstanding natural beauty becomes a smoke free zone . |
| 15 | With their team on the verge of relegation and Boro pushing for promotion , the Argyle fans savoured their beer , contemplating the prospect that it may be some time before they drink in the Tap ‘ n ’ Barrel again . |
| 16 | Joan and Malcolm , both 51 , of Cooks Court , Ormesby , realise it may be some time before Bogdan goes back to Romania . |
| 17 | It is not necessarily the case that this will have happened , nor can it be assumed that the document in question belongs to a given domain at all ( it may be some sort of hybrid , or simply too ambiguous to fit neatly in one domain ) . |
| 18 | It may be some months or even years later when , for the first time they over-correct from a practice stall , they experience a substantial reduction in ‘ g ’ loading . |
| 19 | I think it may be some weeks before completion of the deal . |
| 20 | It may be some comfort to know that short-termism is not exactly a new concern . |
| 21 | And I think , instead of pupil comment it should be some sort of joint say . |
| 22 | However , it should be some consolation to the hon. Gentleman and the hon. Member for Bradford , South ( Mr. Cryer ) that in the past five years the average sentence for rape has increased by 70 per cent . |
| 23 | ‘ It must be some contract with Supersight , ’ I said casually . |
| 24 | She thought it must be some busybody inspector-of-something-or-other . |
| 25 | It must be some kind of joke . |
| 26 | As I stared at her wondering what had caused the condition , I decided that it must be some kind of vitamin deficiency . |
| 27 | ‘ Yes , but I thought it must be some arch or something that everybody had to stoop to go through . |
| 28 | That apart Derby are unstoppable at home and it must be some consolation to Arthur Cox that the twelve million pound team he assembled at last looks the part . |
| 29 | Mr Litmus says it might be some kind of tribesman . ’ |
| 30 | It looks like some kind of mollusc , but no mollusc fits easily into this pattern of growth ; various people have suggested it might be some kind of snail , or perhaps a monoplacophoran ( see p. 76 ) . |