Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mail system is also used to inform users when they are due to perform some administrative tasks , such as assessing proposed changes or endorsing SSRs . |
| 2 | It had already been possible to offset some of the costs of industrial building , but this incentive was now extended to commercial projects in the zones . |
| 3 | While the excavation was in progress , it may have been possible to wash some of the finds and mark each one with a code indicating where it was found : this task has to be completed before any further work can be done . |
| 4 | However , though the only currently practicable approach to identifying rural deprivation was an area based one and although it has been possible to make some sense of census data for rural areas , they still concluded , in line with Knox and Cottam , that it would be far better if the analysis could be performed at the individual level . |
| 5 | Although it might have been possible to attempt some form of categorisation of the types of detail which were recalled at different risk levels , it is not clear that the data from this study are really powerful enough to support such an analysis . |
| 6 | Provided both are prepared to give some ground it is possible to sort out roles afresh and to plan new patterns for the marriage . |
| 7 | But we are prepared to give some guidelines or pointers as to the practice and procedure to be adopted when a hearing as to a wasted costs order takes place . |
| 8 | They are so strongly committed to their unionism that they are prepared to go some way towards moving some of their evangelical principles into the area of private life and personal choice , rather than alienate non-evangelical unionists . |
| 9 | Lots of men I know are prepared to take some time ensuring their children 's food is fresh and safe , once they understand the issues . ’ |
| 10 | There would clearly be great value in building further networks of local education authorities and teacher training institutions which have expressed an interest in particular languages , and which are prepared to exchange some of their insights and resources . |
| 11 | If a long time is spent teaching pupils how to present work and arguments neatly , insisting on underlined headings , dates , and sharp pencils , there are going to be problems convincing them that rough work is valuable and that you are prepared to spend some time looking at it . |
| 12 | September , when the landscape is still green , can be very nice if you are prepared to risk some rain . |
| 13 | erm until some of the people who are putting a lot of pressures on schools to do different things are prepared to resolve some of these contradictions , I think the teachers feel that they 're being continually criticised by different groups for not doing different things , many of which are mutually contradictory , erm and not surprisingly they feel a little defensive in this situation . |
| 14 | We are prepared to question some of the cult phrases of the sixties and seventies and the level of involvement they advocated . |
| 15 | The pleasure can be even more enhanced if you are prepared to forego some of the geometry accuracy of urban structures and allow your watercolour paper to pay a substantial role in the formation of your image . |
| 16 | The pleasure can be even more enhanced if you are prepared to forego some of the geometry accuracy of urban structures and allow your watercolour paper to pay a substantial role in the formation of your image . |
| 17 | It is therefore fair to say that , as a general rule , the courts are prepared to imply some degree of mobility into every contract of employment but this is likely to be limited unless the nature of the job or work performed by the employee is one where mobility would be recognised by both sides as being essential to the job . |
| 18 | April does n't have to be a month of trials and tribulations or agonising over career or professional matters , if you are prepared to make some snap decisions and take what transpires towards the very end of March as a signal to go even further out on a limb . |
| 19 | Fears of what might happen in the East are one reason EC leaders have been willing to offer some help to those on the other side of the broken Berlin Wall . |
| 20 | To put it another way , the English have always been prepared to let some of their old live alone . |
| 21 | ‘ I am free to make some phone calls , am I ? |
| 22 | These commands will do the job but , if you are willing to spend some money , there are programs available which will make the whole process much easier , even automating back-ups so that your data is kept fully secure at all times . |
| 23 | Informal investors or ‘ business angels ’ tend to be wealthy individuals ( often successful entrepreneurs ) who are willing to invest some of their personal wealth in small businesses . |
| 24 | G. Lightheart will place the matter before the Region stating that we are willing to bear some of the cost . |
| 25 | ‘ I need to feel that you are willing to make some effort . ’ |
| 26 | It would have been easy to claim some other appointment , or a practice session with Jack , but the situation intrigued me and I was particularly happy at the thought of pulling a fast one over the shrewd and imperturbable Inspector Drew . |
| 27 | Character oozes from it , and I am content to spend some time studying its many features before I set up a rod . |
| 28 | And since I believe that criticism can not be a substitute for the reading of the novel , I 've been content to sketch some of the general truths which I think lie behind it , and a familiarity with which would I think help to illuminate an eventual reading of À la recherche du temps perdu . |
| 29 | and then they 're supposed to do some work with the form teacher talking about where the strengths and weaknesses li , you know again . |
| 30 | Mr Oaks is a well-known breeder of greys and we 're lucky to obtain some of his horses . ’ |