Example sentences of "[modal v] be [vb pp] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , if the Goblins should be slain some or all the Squigs may break away and go wild . |
| 2 | A I think that the design considerations of your notice board should be given some careful thought . |
| 3 | The Plowden Report on Children and their Primary Schools ( 1967 ) recommended no change to section 76 , but said that parents should be given some choice whenever this was possible . |
| 4 | The Helsinki process should be institutionalised straight away with the formation of an Environmental Security Council which should be given some legislative powers as soon as possible . |
| 5 | The person to be interviewed should be given some indication of the topic and possibly of the kinds of questions they might be asked but it is important that there should not be any rehearsal of the interview as they will then lose their spontaneity . |
| 6 | It also saw frequent proposals that diplomats should be given some systematic training to fit them for the posts they were to occupy . |
| 7 | Given that safety for passengers must be paramount , you might like to consider if such a code of practice should be given some statutory status , or how else the good practice it describes might be disseminated and enforced . |
| 8 | Local authorities should be given some money to get them out of the mess . |
| 9 | And that the district should be given some form of a guide that enables them to be er to apply the particular circumstances to their own district . |
| 10 | ‘ I propose therefore that Customs should be given some discretion to mitigate the penalties for some misdeclarations , to enable them to take account of the individual circumstances of the trader . ’ |
| 11 | At the meeting Kohl yielded to Polish pressure in agreeing that the treaty should be signed some months earlier than he had anticipated . |
| 12 | Hence he envisages that for every sphere of public- or private-sector activity there should be established some arena of potentially destabilising and broadly-based conflict over the use of that power . |
| 13 | The public should be spared some of the more bureaucratic checks and delays at ports and airports that will occur , for example , at Dover and elsewhere , when there are too many uniformed officials stopping people unnecessarily . |
| 14 | It should be planted some distance away from other plants . |
| 15 | Instead she suggests that the content of the formal curriculum should be entirely overhauled : ‘ for girls to become a more powerful group , they must be given some understanding of females ' past powerlessness … in other subject areas , like English literature , social studies , art , biology and — where it is taught — psychology , there is a similar need to examine what girls are learning about women 's abilities and potential , and therefore what they should ( realistically ) expect for themselves ’ ( Hannon , 1979 , p. 115 ) . |
| 16 | And this is a matter which must be given some weight in decision when you combine it with the other factors also which we have gone through today . |
| 17 | Yet personal encounters , first as Cripps 's deputy in the Treasury and later as chancellor of the exchequer , persuaded Gaitskell that there were some people in Washington who appreciated that Britain must be granted some safeguards for her economy . |
| 18 | Clearly , the views of Palestinians with east Jerusalem must be represented some way or another . |
| 19 | Vehicles must be left some distance away from the netting site , and downwind too , so find yourself a convenient parking site during daylight for use after dark . |
| 20 | All those judges agreed on the abstract propositions that statutes make law and that precedent decisions must be allowed some influence over later decisions . |
| 21 | The second principle explains how and why the past must be allowed some special power of its own in court , contrary to the pragmatist 's claim that it must not . |
| 22 | But against this destruction must be set some solid achievements , including the Press Unit 's making as much as censorship would allow in a morale-boosting report . |
| 23 | Ellwood crouched down alongside the priest and looked this way and that , as if he might be given some notion of what to do next . |
| 24 | Finally , a ‘ psychiatric post-mortem ’ might be held some weeks later when staff feel less distressed . |
| 25 | Lots of people like the poster too , so we 'll be sticking with it for now , and as for the scores … we 'll be done some more reader challenges soon , so liars who can hardly play a game they claim to have mastered will have me to deal with ! |
| 26 | You 'll be arrested some night and then where will we be ? ’ |
| 27 | Mm , because you , you erm have er the , obviously that you could be sent some dubious tapes ? |
| 28 | She was told by the Chief Constable of the district ( who was accompanied by the Inspector who became the respondent in the appeal ) that a meeting could not be held on the spot , but could be held some 175 yards distant , around the corner . |
| 29 | If that was all there was to it , we could be pardoned some uneasiness ; we might feel that we have n't been shown much reason for supposing that there are any sentences such that all who understand them will agree on their truth-value no matter what the circumstances . |
| 30 | You 'd be given some input . |