Example sentences of "[pron] have [prep] be some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Sixties — with Charlton , Law and Best at United , Greaves at Spurs , Marsh at Rangers , Moore , Hurst and Peters at West Ham — you had to be some kind of deranged flagellant to choose a team that had n't won a thing since the Coronation . |
| 2 | You have to be some chancer to turn down 10 million for a player that could burn out from snorting too much junk food in a few years : - ) ( mixing my puns there , I think ) . |
| 3 | It wo n't do , wo n't make a lady of you , and you have to be some kind of a lady to get a decent job in a decent ladies ’ shop . |
| 4 | ‘ We have to be some way above it to see it clearly . |
| 5 | In the end there has to be some way of restructuring the mode of analysis to take account both of gender differences in role , status and resources within the family , and also outside it . |
| 6 | There has to be some way to persuade people to enter before an event . |
| 7 | Thus although the general attitude of the public is sympathetic to the mentally handicapped in our society , there remains an overriding sense of pity that they are as they are , and a feeling that there has to be some degree of segregation between them and the rest of society . |
| 8 | Thus there has to be some degree of policy enthusiasm for prevention and outpatient services if the dominance of hospital inpatient beds over the care system is to change in any one administrative area . |
| 9 | There has to be some kind of learning principle behind what they are asking . |
| 10 | ‘ In any family situation where both parents are working , there has to be some division of labour , so we both concentrated on different aspects of the household commitments . |
| 11 | For that , there has to be some evidence that the pupils or students are responding to what is put before them . |
| 12 | ‘ But when you go on telly there has to be some compromise , like I swear all the f—ing time , but that does n't bother me , I do n't feel like I 'm selling my life away just to get on the telly . ’ |
| 13 | There has to be some dynamism in love . |
| 14 | ‘ There has to be some step between club and country . |
| 15 | There has to be some trade-off between the benefits of open access and the value of integrated programmes , and I think the balance of advantage lies with the integrative approach . |
| 16 | So far as far as water sports are concerned I would make one reservation which is that there has to be some form of rationalization between competed sports which may conflict with each other and I am sure this can be achieved through the Sports Council machinery . |
| 17 | I 'm not a legal man myself , but there has to be some charge the law can bring . |
| 18 | There is at least one similarity between the two approaches : there has to be some mechanism by which something corresponding to a complex ref-O is represented . |
| 19 | Thus there has to be some mechanism that would eliminate the very large effective cosmological constant and so change the rate of expansion from an accelerated one to one that is slowed down by gravity , as we have today . |
| 20 | It means that there has to be some violence used against the woman to overbear her will or that there has to be a threat of violence as a result of which her will is overborne . ’ |
| 21 | Joan Cameron , a former Provost of Bearsden and Milngavie , who will chair the trust , said there had to be some vehicle for liaison . |
| 22 | But there must be some way — there had to be some way of getting news . |
| 23 | There had to be some way of putting an end to his domineering activities . |
| 24 | There had to be some way to break out of it and get back to reality . |
| 25 | OK , so he was well-built , and he was going to make a tough opponent , but there had to be some chink she could work at . |
| 26 | There had to be some link with Helsinki . |
| 27 | There had to be some rationalisation of research funding in this field , and if the earth sciences are typical , other subjects could be expected to show similar effects in varying degrees . |
| 28 | It seemed that there had to be some medium throughout space through which the light traveled . |
| 29 | He said there had to be some mistake . |
| 30 | There had to be some sort of telepathy at work . |