Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [subord] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its success has been limited because some children will work on projects which interest them but which do not tax them sufficiently . |
| 2 | Some environmentalists prefer preservation-by-exclusion , so that visitors are rationed because some areas are made deliberately inaccessible ( particularly ‘ wilderness ’ areas ) or a toll or entrance fee is imposed , or even , as a last resort ( as in the case of most nature reserves ) , access is made dependent upon the membership of an amenity society and/or the possession of a permit . |
| 3 | The relationship between herbivores and plants has often been seen as some kind of arms race , but there have been opposing views in that , for example , spittle-bugs in the dry tropics of West Africa , rather than depleting valuable water resources may promote microbial activity beneath particular tree species , allowing them to take up nutrients in the dry season from the surface layers of the soil , provided that other roots can tap a deep water source . |
| 4 | These take a variety of forms and are thus difficult to summarize ; basically statistical properties are measured whilst some condition is fulfilled , such as the velocity being above some level , the velocity varying particularly rapidly , or different velocity components being related so as to make a large contribution to the Reynolds stress . |
| 5 | The work characteristics and social support were more likely to have been misclassified than some of the other explanatory variables . |
| 6 | Although there are cases where a significant field difference has only been found when some form of retention interval has been imposed on the subject ( e.g. Dee and Fontenot , 1973 ) it is unlikely that these are the only circumstances in which reliable effects occur ( Schmuller , 1980 ) . |
| 7 | Although cholesterol has come to be regarded as some sort of evil , a certain amount is actually essential for some aspects of physical health such as repairing lining membranes and the manufacture of sex hormones . |
| 8 | First , the 1945 election would be regarded as some kind of high point in terms of the programme choice offered to the electorate by the Labour and Conservative Parties : Labour was out to create a new socialist Britain whilst the Conservatives were still rooted in the Old Toryism of empire and unregulated capitalism . |
| 9 | The distinction between public bodies and voluntary agencies will be blurred , and the independence of action of voluntary bodies will be hampered as some of their resources and energies are absorbed in winning and fulfilling local authority contracts . |
| 10 | The nature of these changes , then , can be seen as some confirmation that the trends identified by Dearlove were genuine enough , but that working them through has taken much longer to achieve and involved much more upheaval than his initial analysis would have suggested . |
| 11 | I suspect that the proposition that broadly the price of housing will rise at least as fast as inflation could only be falsified if some pestilence almost on the scale of the black death were to occur so that supply vastly exceeded demand or significantly exceeded demand . |
| 12 | Many thinkers such as Owen , Fourier , Saint-Simon and Blanc saw the root of injustice as the competitive system of free markets , which led them to argue that the gulf between rich and poor and the exploitation of the one by the other , would not be abolished until some form of socialist state was established . |
| 13 | Mix and match elections ( see para 1.2 above ) may be offered where some shareholders are expected to want to realise their investment and others are expected to want to roll-over their capital gains into new ordinary shares of the offeror . |
| 14 | He went on to explain that the rules of the game could easily be encompassed if some rooms were left without windows , and if the facades did not accurately represent the layout of the interior . |
| 15 | The imminence of the Premier League means that this is probably the last time the famous old knockout tournament will be played while some degree of financial equality exists between the present First and Second divisions . |
| 16 | Reserve requirements on banks will have to be standardized if some banks are not to suffer a competitive disadvantage . |
| 17 | The teacher 's purposes in selecting it as a ‘ collaborative ’ activity would be undermined if some children worked individually . |
| 18 | A noteworthy exception to this trend can be found where some writers have proposed that financial reports move away from the relative subjectivity of all accruals accounting ( subjective because of depreciation charges , stock valuations , etc. ) to the relatively more objective cash flow accounting ( which recognizes only cash inflows and outflows ) . |
| 19 | The world must wait however to discover whether Kylie will be cast as some lovelorn , tragic Juliet to Jason 's Romeo or whether her musical will , in the mould of The Delinquents , be a rock and roll high school blockbuster , like Grease , the movie she admits she has loved since her Melbourne childhood . |
| 20 | ‘ Neither , ’ he continued in the same gentle tone of voice , ‘ am I prepared to be cast as some Viking lover straight out of a Hollywood film , rampaging and raping so that you can put the full responsibilities of your actions on me . |
| 21 | A great deal of skill , imagination and effort goes into the design of a new programming language and the development of new languages will be encouraged if some form of protection is afforded to them . |
| 22 | Paul Reed Smith guitars are acknowledged as some of the finest produced anywhere today , and Guitarist 's Guitar Of The Year will be a classic ! |
| 23 | The report admitted : ‘ There are problems associated with this since it is difficult to ensure that feral pigeons only are taken since some birds may be ringed and belong to pigeon fanciers . |
| 24 | He claims they were painted when some temporary traffic lights were erected and the council never bothered to remove them when the lights were taken down . |
| 25 | He disclosed the terms of the American offer , he left no doubt that they were in his opinion the best that could be obtained and should be accepted , and he rounded things off with what were interpreted as some highly uncomplimentary remarks about the quality of the Congressional opinion which had to be accommodated . |
| 26 | The threat of resistance being offered if some change were to be initiated may be enough to maintain the status quo . |
| 27 | But growers say that people are being conned because some spanish plumbs are being labelled as Victorias — which they 're not : |
| 28 | The big dealers are really being hit as some have been under investigation for almost a year and have had their passports confiscated . |
| 29 | ‘ You knew , did n't you , ’ he said , noticing that his hands were shaking when some of the whisky spilt . |
| 30 | This Preface summarises the main respects in which the proposals of the FRED differ from those of the Discussion Paper , and explains why certain proposals were retained although some commentators pointed out difficulties or expressed objections . |