Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [conj] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some youngsters who sniff have accidents while they are intoxicated and some suffer damage to their health . |
| 2 | Offenders who are mentally disordered suffer the stigma of being labelled as both ‘ mad ’ and ‘ bad ’ , although for centuries it has been recognized that some people have diminished responsibility for their actions as a result of mental abnormality and that punishment and retribution , usually demanded by society of someone who has committed a crime , should be dispensed with in favour of providing humane care and treatment . |
| 3 | Its success has been limited because some children will work on projects which interest them but which do not tax them sufficiently . |
| 4 | It has been calculated that some 37% of families would be better off , and 37% worse off , as a result of the change from Community Charge to the Council tax . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It 's hard to say at this point how many are now in prison as some are scattered and some gone underground . |
| 7 | It seems that while everybody does dream during REM sleep , most dreams are forgotten and some people forget more readily than others . |
| 8 | Limited provisions for fluctuations are included and some choice is given to the employer in the subcontractors to be employed for specialist work . |
| 9 | All the basic properties of Wave Motion are considered and some time is spent on Ray Optics and Simple Electricity . |
| 10 | It has been claimed that some will have to choose between keeping warm and having enough to eat . |
| 11 | However , it has been claimed that some doctors in the province will perform abortions in certain circumstances . |
| 12 | This provides the framework for a theory of why some areas are regulated and some not , albeit a partial one since it depends on the pattern of interests . |
| 13 | Stepsd have been taken to improve things since Judge Tumim 's report , new accommodation blocks have been built but some are still living in the old quarters . |
| 14 | Initially it had been felt that some families failed to take advantage of the services offered by the welfare state and , despite the basic social services , they fell into poverty and sickness , remained ignorant of the skills and attitudes needed to cope with life and failed to find accommodation for themselves . |
| 15 | For implicatures are not semantic inferences , but rather inferences based on both the content of what has been said and some specific assumptions about the cooperative nature of ordinary verbal interaction . |
| 16 | No summary data are presented and some of the individual trials did not measure quality of life at all . |
| 17 | Nevertheless an important start has been made and some students are being exposed to a segment of African literature . |
| 18 | The importance of such developments will be clear : planning for resource-based learning is a taxing and time-consuming activity for teachers , but if the work can be shared , if the expertise and creativity of colleagues can be made easily available , and if the teacher can have ready access to advice , guidance and encouragement , an important contribution has been made and some of the burden shifted . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Most people find their wrists ache due to the constant jarring as the shears are closed and some better models are fitted with buffers to help alleviate this . |
| 21 | Earlier we had been told that some ‘ lascivious ’ nudes were ‘ a sign of increasing decadence at the centre of an inflexible regime ’ , a phrase with some deeply troubling echoes of vocabulary . |
| 22 | I 've also been told that some of my shots would make very good ‘ New Age ’ album covers , so you never know . |
| 23 | And Hotline has been told that some of them are to question McMenemy 's position . |
| 24 | We have an energy-rich country and a massive trading balance , so why the hell are we importing electricity from France which I believe attracts the nuclear and importing coal from dubious sources and I have been told that some of that coal has been extracted by women and children , often in horrendously unsafe conditions . |
| 25 | Most of it has been demolished but some forms part of Kings Mill House . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The work characteristics and social support were more likely to have been misclassified than some of the other explanatory variables . |
| 28 | Where the operation has been performed but some degree of brain damage has occurred , the child will be similar to one with cerebral palsy . |
| 29 | It has been shown that some schools offer a rehash or revision programme based on pre-registration modules , while others prepare courses in line with the very latest developments available . |
| 30 | Thirdly it has been shown that some sequence selective ligands induce bleomycin cleavage at novel sites [ 24,25 ] . |