Example sentences of "[vb pp] to be some " in BNC.

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1 Although Microsoft Corp is currently gorging itself on Intel Corp iAPX-86 platforms with its Windows desktop environment — and Windows NT will follow — there are still expected to be some rich pickings left over for the gaggle of hopefuls which are working on desktop Unix implementations for the architecture , which will soon include the new P5 80586 iteration when it arrives .
2 It 's expected to be some weeks before all the shops damaged in the arson attack can be re-opened .
3 The second view is that Judas told the chief priests that Jesus had claimed to be some sort of Messiah ; perhaps one who would lead a rebellion against the Romans .
4 When the body of one specimen was first brought from Australia to Britain in 1798 , it was considered to be some kind of taxidermist 's hoax — a mixture of bird and mammal — which , to some extent , it is .
5 The new compiler is said to be some 10% to 20% faster than the top-ranked GNU C Compiler .
6 Apparently , however , WABI has been turned into a product and packaged , and there is said to be some kind of cross-productisation afoot with parent company Sun Microsystems Inc .
7 There are said to be some mystic rivers one drop of which can steal a man 's life away .
8 In this case the developer would probably say to the local authority , I want this site and it 's all or nothing , which then puts the local authority in a dilemma and in the sense its allocated sites are now seen to be some form second status .
9 In such a big household there needed to be some organisation and control so father provided the discipline and mother tempered it with mercy .
10 This event , billed to take place in London this week under the auspices of the Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain ( Marxist-Leninist ) , was previously thought to be some sort of mirage .
11 They are , of course , incapable of deliberate volition and move more or less at random ( although there is thought to be some evidence of a directional trend ) .
12 In all there are thought to be some three-quarters of a million of them surviving .
13 Where the malice is alleged to be some improper motivation , the plaintiff will require strong evidence of impropriety in order to destroy the defence .
14 I thought it was all a joke , you 've really got to be some schmuck to fall for that one .
15 ‘ There 's got to be some form of addiction there , ’ he acknowledged .
16 There has got to be some kind of responsibility to deliver what they think they are buying . ’
17 Curve have n't got time for apathy — there 's got to be some attitude to your music . ’
18 That 's got to be some kind of a nutter .
19 I mean it 's got to be some some illness I suppose that
20 There 's got to be some reason we all drop dead in the end . ’
21 There 's got to be some trust involved . ’
22 There 's got to be some resolution , something that breaks the tension . ’
23 So there 's got to be some way round it . ’
24 There s got to be some clause in there about ownership … surely by spending that much we legally own the east stand etc ?
25 Well I just wonder you , there has got to be some kind of relationship between the fact that most people who take drugs live in really run down deprived areas .
26 We also recognise so to are the workers of County Councils , and District Councils , particularly because the er the government initiatives , one good point to V A T on fuel , and the increasing in in National Insurance Contributions and increases in taxation , so between the two sides has got to be some accommodation , bearing in mind the need for both of us to want to continue to deliver quality services .
27 There has got to be some genuine changes in our erm willingness to work hard at our family life and not to give in easily at the challenges that so often break our homes up .
28 There 's got to be some sort of has n't there ?
29 Despite recognition of the discomfort caused by ventilation and its attendant procedures ( tracheal suction , chest drains , arterial lines etc. ) , there has tended to be some reluctance to prescribe potent analgesics .
30 ‘ If the Conservatives set up this fund , there is bound to be some confusion with ours , ’ says director Christopher Nevile .
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