Example sentences of "[is] some " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | At least there s some loyalty left in the game |
| 2 | There is some doubt in a grey area of differences between monographs on the one hand , and catalogues or biographies on the other . |
| 3 | But there is some question of a pathogenic secret , of the recovery of material hitherto repressed which influenced his perception of his mother : and his understanding of the past would certainly appear to have been enlarged by his researches . |
| 4 | But there is some instability in the accounts he gives of dark professions of faith , in his acerbities and fatalities . |
| 5 | A rich restoration character , not recommended unless there is some reasonable experience working in the style . |
| 6 | But the positive interest of an agent is some guarantee that your work is not passing by unnoticed . |
| 7 | The current obsession with pseudo-Victorian and other bogus ‘ historical ’ styles imposed willy-nilly and quite regardless of the true age of the pub , seems to suggest two things ; firstly that pub designers and fitters have completely lost their way , both in recognising and respecting what is genuinely old and in looking for a wholeheartedly modern pub style ; secondly that there is some king of awareness , correct but misguided , that people like their pubs to look old and feel familiar . |
| 8 | There is some justification for this caricature of the typical computer user — though customers ' critics might ask themselves first how well-written the manuals are , before complaining that people never read them . |
| 9 | Look , what you probably need is some fresh air . |
| 10 | There is some confusion over the parentage of S. ‘ Fastigiata ’ . |
| 11 | Thompson ( 1980 ) has further suggested that many of these analyses are designed to present some utopian vision of a police-free world , but often include ‘ the soppy notion that all crime is some kind of displaced revolutionary activity ’ . |
| 12 | This perspective , he contends , is a particularly sociological construct , implying criminal activity is some kind of pure or moralistic behaviour . |
| 13 | When Sarah McCabe ( 1980 ) queried the logic of why just one police system should be entrusted with the control of crime , law , order , and social assistance , pointing out , ‘ there is some disagreement about the use of the criminal law — unease about control of the streets … [ which poses the question ] who will be controlled and [ who will be ] assisted ’ , she found the tenor of her ‘ thoughtful and moderate examination of the police role … was too much for the senior officers to whom it was presented , and they set out to discredit it with a will ’ ( Greenhill 1981 : 98 ) . |
| 14 | Stead argues that only constant inquiry ( for which I could substitute ‘ inside ethnography ’ ) can prevent such an unacceptable trend , and it is some comfort to see a probationary policewoman , such as Cressida Dick ( 1985 ) , pointing out the political compromises such autocracy can produce , but which few of the chief officers seem willing to admit or even acknowledge . |
| 15 | Thus , there is some degree of selfdetermination in the ship case because we are free to shut our eyes , to cross the river and see it move from right to left , free to jump into the water and watch it coming towards us , free to determine the speed with which it passes across our visual field by moving our eyes with or against its movement . |
| 16 | ( It is not clear to me whether this is some kind of philosophical claim or an hypothesis . |
| 17 | So , in a near-threshold task the subject may be accurately identifying the presence of a stimulus which tells the experimenter that there is some kind of mental representation of the stimulus , but there is no way the experimenter can decide whether or not the subject is consciously aware of the stimulus . |
| 18 | Obviously there is some problem which I shall attempt to diagnose . |
| 19 | There is some controversy over the finish on carving chisels and gouges . |
| 20 | There is some truth in this , but not altogether in the sense that was there intended . |
| 21 | For Dorothy is still not in focus , and one begins to think that she never will be , even if the correspondence of the Pounds ' later years is some day published . |
| 22 | We have made a bid of nearly £700m for a company with a book value of £200m — we 've acknowledged there is some extra worth there , but I can not see the sort of value they are talking about in property . |
| 23 | Evidence of excessive demand There is some observable good sense in this argument , and it helps to explain why sterling has not hit the fan a lot earlier , during a truly spectacular swing from surplus to deficit over the past two years . |
| 24 | The first reason the Chancellor gives is that there is some ‘ bad ’ froth on the ‘ good ’ deficit : that is to say , evidence of excessive domestic demand . |
| 25 | The activists ' message scrawled on a wall near the ground is some way removed from the burning passions normally aroused by football , while the T-shirts are more machismo than menace , and pop songs peppered with heavy breathing are apparently in vogue if not in keeping with pre-match entertainment . |
| 26 | On the other hand , extreme plagiarism , banality or cynicism still induce a certain queasiness in the beholder , which suggests there is some point in good architecture . |
| 27 | There is some dispute about the level of abuse in this country . |
| 28 | There is some ‘ outstanding teaching in most subjects in most institutions , but as a proportion of the total teaching effort the amount is comparatively limited ’ . |
| 29 | He produces the stories at a craftsmanlike rate , no more than one a year , so it is some time since the appearance of the first volume , Pig Earth . |
| 30 | There is some consolation , too , for Formula One world champion , Ayrton Senna , for last week 's crunch with Nigel Mansell in Portugal . |