Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local authorities should be given some money to get them out of the mess . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 3 | It was customary in those days for the ablest students to be given some responsibility for teaching the younger pupils . |
| 4 | When will I be given some responsibility ? |
| 5 | The live anniversary performance of Messiah by George Frederic Handel ( C4 , Monday : 8.30–11.40 pm ) will be given some way from down-at-heel Fishamble Street at the Point Theatre . |
| 6 | Though this may be the case , it would be helpful to be given some idea of the potential cost-benefits and disadvantages . |
| 7 | For that to happen , students have to be given some space in which to develop intellectually in their own way . |
| 8 | Social Services Departments vary in the way they register childminders , but you will probably be visited in your home and be given some forms to complete . |
| 9 | From the time of James 's second Indulgence , most Whigs and Nonconformists had come out against the suspending power , on the promise that if they stuck by the Church , they would be given some measure of toleration . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | As far as possible , students will be given some choice of location . |
| 13 | Later on in my undergraduate career I was lucky enough to be given some teaching by Dr Douglas Ross , consultant in Glasgow , and had personal experience of the efficacy of homoeopathy when he cured the gingivitis ( inflammation of the gums ) which had been plaguing me for three weeks with a homoeopathic preparation of mercury . |
| 14 | The school , of course , had existed for some years now , ever since the Factory Act which her father could not mention without turning purple , had thought it advisable for factory children to be given some education , feeling that an hour or two a week per child , perhaps , of reading , writing and arithmetic , would not go amiss . |
| 15 | He said : ‘ I think the processors will be given some confidence as a result of the meeting but I think the fishermen will wish we had been able to do something dramatic . |
| 16 | You 'd be given some input . |
| 17 | Well thing is people are moving to an area they may be given some information by their company but |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The controversy about worthwhile reading often revolves around the books and stories of Enid Blyton , so these will be given some attention . |
| 20 | Many , of course , are not , and that would seem to increase the need for the advantaged children to be given some understanding of the harsh world in which many other children have to live . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | ‘ But he will be given some advice , ’ he said . |
| 23 | ‘ If the players are to be given some incentive , they really have to get the North going as it was . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I am delighted that we will continue that process under my right hon. Friends the Prime Minister and the Secretary of State in the new Parliament which will be formed some time late next spring or in the summer . |
| 27 | A spokesman said about one-third of the sewage load from the town is due to be diverted some time this year to a new treatment plant . |
| 28 | The crêche may be located some distance away from where you will be working , and some have restrictions as to how far away you are allowed to be from your child in case you need to be contacted . |
| 29 | This led to divorce from his wife , who could perhaps be permitted some schadenfreude at the fact that Van Den Hauwe 's relationship had , perforce , become platonic . |
| 30 | Since then , there have been about half a dozen glitzy launches — featuring among others , the Home Secretary grinning into the television cameras , telling us that something was going to be done some time . |