Example sentences of "[being] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So why are you not over ‘ tere , bein' some kind of movie star , rather than sittin' in a pub in Santry , in the middle of autumn ta ’ feels like winter ? ’ |
| 2 | Even if you become a great painter you end up being some rich man 's lackey , sponsored and dabbled with — if you 're lucky . |
| 3 | ‘ And as for the idea that I am being some how manipulated all I can say is that I do n't know about the other girls but I have been in a similar industry — television , for the last couple of years and now I know how it works . |
| 4 | In order to explain latent inhibition in terms of the habituation of the OR it is clearly necessary to interpret the latter as being some central response , the evocation of which is necessary for speedy conditioning . |
| 5 | The inability to confirm this well-known fact has not spoilt the sudden acceptance of the placebo as something with at least a false concrete explanation rather than being some form of gothic magic about which it is better not to speak . |
| 6 | His opponent was a little Jewish chap of the Gorbals , and a full six inches shorter , not to mention the disadvantage of being some three stones lighter . |
| 7 | There is more emphasis on traffic volumes than on speeds , with road geometry used as the speed restricting device and the target seen as being some unspecified speed below 30 mph ( 50 km/h ) . |
| 8 | Diplodocus was remarkably lithe , weighing only 10 tons in spite of being some 28 metres long . |
| 9 | It is a long , low , curving building typical of his designs , being some five storeys high with ramps connecting upper and lower floors . |
| 10 | In the earlier stages I knew the denial to be conscious and saw it as being some sort of test of my will . |
| 11 | This first leg of the long trans-Atlantic flight was the longest , being some 1,500 miles . |
| 12 | His Excellency showed me a film he had taken of the three northern islands of the Tonga group which — being some 300 miles north of the main island — are invariably overlooked by such few visitors as Tonga receives . |
| 13 | So Mains did gain the reputation of being some rather grim eminence locked in his southern castle and given to humourless comment about the rugby matters of the day . |
| 14 | As with the indecent assaults on males , the predominant feature of these reports is that they are concerned with men abusing their positions of trust rather than being some unknown sex beasts who are assaulting victims not known to them prior to the offence . |
| 15 | Inzamam-ul-Haq ducked into his first ball and took it around the shoulder , and while a helmet was being fetched , he tried to pull the next and merely splice it up for a return catch to Malcolm , who later disclosed that , being some way short of the top 100 fielders in the land , he could only murmur , ‘ Oh , my Lord , who 's going to take that catch ? ’ |
| 16 | What having lived on the flats , erm what would you put forward as being some the good points of living there ? |
| 17 | Dear Horace , I think I may be a bit late with this as here in the antipodes , and especially being some way down a circulation list , your column takes some weeks to reach me . |
| 18 | The Spadeadam Rocket Establishment came into being some time after 1950 when the Cold War was at its height . |
| 19 | In a referendum on June 14 on the status of ex-Soviet troops in Lithuania , voting was reported as being some 90 per cent in favour of their immediate withdrawal ( i.e. in 1992 ) , in a 75 per cent turnout . |
| 20 | Experts are often loosely described as being some kind of arbitrator . |
| 21 | Now seminar in point of fact was new to my vocabulary and I had ideas of it being some sematic ritual with a small operation at the end of it . |
| 22 | Because th th th th there , there 'd been statements from Mao until the end of nineteen forty five where he 's still talking about land to the tiller being some way off |
| 23 | of course our members er of which we 've got a hundred and twenty three thousand , flood the lines into Luton wanted to know what happens they imagined a surplus as being some pot of er big tub of notes that they can dip it and we can dip into , but of course the surpluses have been used basically by British Telecom in particular for funding early retirement schemes er we 're in no way in knowledge whether the money 's every been paid back . |
| 24 | Now we could just take the pattern of responses out of there as being some classes . |
| 25 | No we do n't , erm we in principle obviously we are in favour of er there being some form of compensation scheme and that has to be regarded as erm a step forward , er it would be better if er whatever compensation scheme is gon na be introduced was introduced now and the committee recommended and not in nineteen ninety-six or whenever it may be that the legislation is enacted . |
| 26 | I am very intrigued by councillor 's analogy with this counc er count er housing services by this council being a business and the Chancellor of the Exchequer being some kind of bank manager . |
| 27 | The Examination Council came into being some erm nine months ago and has already been involved in quite a lot of activity , I mean particularly the erm problem of sixteen-plus examining , whether we should move from a system of erm O-levels and C S E , or to a combined system , Sixteen-plus Examination it would probably be called . |