Example sentences of "[prep] be [vb pp] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Subjects came up with well-organized fantasy sequences after being roused from some periods with high levels of EEG alpha and saccadic eye movements consistent with relaxed wakefulness . |
| 2 | It must be capable of being repeated at some later date . |
| 3 | The problem of administrative inconvenience resulting from the quashing of decisions with retrospective effect might also be capable of being overcome in some cases by some form of prospective relief ( that is , relief which only operates in the future ) . |
| 4 | Because conflict often involves the awareness of being wronged in some way , unresolved past experiences of unfairness , injury or maltreatment can have a powerful effect as we react and respond to more contemporary occurrences . |
| 5 | Peter Grimes is so famous it runs the risk of being taken for some sort of operatic norm . |
| 6 | Further , Hayek argues that constructivist rationalists are guilty of ‘ the synoptic delusion ’ ; that is , the belief that all relevant social facts are capable of being known to some one mind , and that it is possible to construct from this knowledge of the particulars a desirable social order . |
| 7 | Some parents even said they had been aware of being watched for some considerable time . |
| 8 | For example , he or she may complain now of thoughts racing through the head , now of having no thoughts at all , or , on one occasion , of being bombarded by external stimulation , making concentration difficult , and , on another , of being fixated on some trivial detail in the outside world . |
| 9 | In this text , which is aimed at senior undergraduate students of engineering , the subject of matrices is described and developed before being applied to some of the problems of engineering dynamics . |
| 10 | It is very different , and as you can see has to be based on some knowledge or understanding . |
| 11 | Some , however , were concerned about the nature of the play activities , almost all of which were seen to be based on some kind of violence . |
| 12 | A problem arises here : the company policies and procedures need to be based on some knowledge of employees ' willingness to move but asking the employees whether they are willing to relocate will not provide constructive answers unless those concerned can have answers to their questions based on hard facts — which are usually given in written policy statements . |
| 13 | In the old days , with casein , it used to be said of some of the aircraft in the tropics that they were held together by the assembly brads . |
| 14 | To be recognized for some achievement in life lifted Dad immensely ; before Eva he had begun to see himself as a failure and his life as a dismal thing . |
| 15 | She wrote a memorial to his brother George , now Prince Regent , Nelson 's friend , reminding him of the codicil which the national hero had made to his will leaving her and Horatia to the nation , and asking for it to be recognized in some tangible form . |
| 16 | He suggests that the perception of objectivity to be observed in some areas of English culture may stem from the ‘ real ’ objectivity provided by writing : ‘ The intrinsically greater objectivity of written language ( or , alternatively , the intrinsically lesser subjectivity ) could ’ , he argues , ‘ have encouraged the development of an institutionalised greater respect for written evidence ’ ( 1982 ) . |
| 17 | His heart sank , perversely convinced that he was to be transferred to some damp hole where he would be able neither to stand upright nor lie at full length , and chained there in darkness . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , in so far as it addressed the complex issue of home-school relationships in multi-ethnic contexts , it was an important initiative which deserves to be extended in some form . |
| 19 | Socata 's parent company Aerospatiale is responsible for the cockpit architecture of the Airbus line , and there have clearly been transfers of technology between Toulouse and Tarbes , the result being that the TBM 700 needs to be flown like some kind of ! 320 . |
| 20 | ‘ Perhaps it is to be applied to some kind of child 's toy — a gunpowder-propelled kite ! ’ |
| 21 | These perspectives on the urban problem — many of which have emerged from neo-Marxist debate — need to be treated with some caution . |
| 22 | These results have to be treated with some caution because of the small numbers of subjects involved ( though most studies have this limitation ) and the weaker effects for conditions ( 3 ) and ( 4 ) . |
| 23 | Some of these may not be changes for the better and deserve to be treated with some suspicion : the tendency to de-humanise the author-function ; the license offered to slipshod architects of style to pinch and pastiche without mercy and the insinuation of academic jargon into criticism and production . |
| 24 | Arguments about competition in the printing trade have to be treated with some caution . |
| 25 | The information has to be treated with some caution . |
| 26 | The official government figures need to be treated with some caution . |
| 27 | The straight lines on the charts may be over-simplified , therefore , and would need to be treated with some caution . |
| 28 | Break-even charts are relatively simple to produce , but this simplicity itself may lead to an over-simplified statement of a situation , and needs to be treated with some caution . |
| 29 | Bremner and Jimmy Johnstone made Willie Ormond 's period as Scotland manager into a nightmare of infuriating incidents and in the '60s , the city of Turin was to be treated to some memorable scandals when Denis Law and Joe Baker both signed for the Italian League side Torino . |
| 30 | Obviously there are certain key factors to any sort of reasonable living space : walls and ceiling will have to be decorated along with all the woodwork ; windows and floors have to be treated in some way ; there must be light both to see by and to enhance the space ; there should be something to sit on and probably to eat from and almost certainly somewhere to work at times . |