Example sentences of "[adv] be [verb] [conj] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although there are cases where a significant field difference has only been found when some form of retention interval has been imposed on the subject ( e.g. Dee and Fontenot , 1973 ) it is unlikely that these are the only circumstances in which reliable effects occur ( Schmuller , 1980 ) . |
| 2 | It had long been known that some metals gave colours to flames ; but this was an unreliable test , because colours are hard to describe exactly , and because they are usually masked by a brilliant orange-yellow . |
| 3 | The report admitted : ‘ There are problems associated with this since it is difficult to ensure that feral pigeons only are taken since some birds may be ringed and belong to pigeon fanciers . |
| 4 | ‘ It could be that it 's just something that Bob is allergic to , but it had better be investigated and some sample testing done in case we need to get on to the manufacturers . |
| 5 | I suspect that the proposition that broadly the price of housing will rise at least as fast as inflation could only be falsified if some pestilence almost on the scale of the black death were to occur so that supply vastly exceeded demand or significantly exceeded demand . |
| 6 | It has already been noted that some science students had made the choice between science and arts on the basis that it was easier to keep up with arts in one 's spare time than it was to keep up with science . |
| 7 | Main trends : Moves towards integration have already been discussed and some very creative Social and Environmental Studies programmes are being devised ( Nigeria , Sierra Leone ) . |
| 8 | At the same time , it should not be forgotten that some writers had been advocating the use of multiple methods for years : |
| 9 | Many thinkers such as Owen , Fourier , Saint-Simon and Blanc saw the root of injustice as the competitive system of free markets , which led them to argue that the gulf between rich and poor and the exploitation of the one by the other , would not be abolished until some form of socialist state was established . |
| 10 | Even if this analysis is open to question at some points , it can not be doubted that some such metaphorical sense is the most natural one ( within the same writing as our text , Yahweh 's " ways " are clearly his " way of life " or " moral administration " at Isa 55.8 , 9 ) . |
| 11 | He went on to explain that the rules of the game could easily be encompassed if some rooms were left without windows , and if the facades did not accurately represent the layout of the interior . |
| 12 | To prevent the proprietor sitting on his patent , deliberately failing to use it , section 48 of the Act allows any person to apply for a compulsory licence under the patent , after the expiry of three years if , for example , the patent is not being worked or some abuse is being made of the patent monopoly such as if the product is not being made available at reasonable terms . |
| 13 | Maps at larger scale ( 1:10 000 or 6 inches to the mile ) can usually be obtained but some may be copies of old , unpublished manuscript maps which date from the last century . |
| 14 | I 've also been told that some of my shots would make very good ‘ New Age ’ album covers , so you never know . |
| 15 | But it should also be said that some elements of this description of mine could be taken to characterise the activity , sometimes ominous enough in its human implications , of all imaginative writers , however remote they may be from the dualistic confederacy . |
| 16 | It may also be noted that some US multinational companies attempted , quite unsuccessfully , to introduce into Japan ( and other Asian countries ) wage systems based on job evaluation and merit rating , as opposed to the more usual Japanese system of seniority and educational qualifications ( ILO , 1973 ) |
| 17 | It may also be argued that some limits to growth , which Hirsch ( 1977 ) called ‘ social limits ’ , are already operating . |
| 18 | By this time , too , it was also being alleged that some of the original apostles had travelled to Britain . |
| 19 | Finalised Lead Body standards have now been published and some fine tuning of the modules may be required to ensure that all the Lead Body standards are explicitly stated in the modules . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The many interesting and sometimes elaborate forms of instinctive behaviour shown by insects have often been described and some have also been explained as simple taxes and kineses or interpreted in more complex ethological terms ( Tinbergen , 1951 ; Baerends , 1959 ; Fraenkel and Gunn , 19612 ; Thorpe , 1963 ; Haskell , 1966 ; Evans , 1966 ; von Frisch , 1967 ; Sudd , 1967 ; Ewing and Manning , 1967 ; Manning , 1972 ) . |
| 22 | The contribution of the informal care sector , particularly the family , is now being acknowledged and some attempts are being made to interweave the informal care and the formal provision more closely together . |
| 23 | The big dealers are really being hit as some have been under investigation for almost a year and have had their passports confiscated . |
| 24 | It has even been suggested that some of Golitsin 's claims were based on CIA files that Angleton had allowed him to inspect . |
| 25 | It has even been suggested that some coral reefs , which it will be recalled are mostly dead coral and debris , are being destroyed rather than built up : they could be relics of higher sea levels . |
| 26 | The coffered vault can plainly be discerned and some of the original stucco decoration is adhering to the deep , octagonal coffers ( 86 , 87 , 108 and XII ) . |
| 27 | At the risk of wearying the reader it must again be stated that some degree of incestuous feeling exists in most if not all parents and children . |
| 28 | It has recently been suggested that some ancient solders did contain cadmium , using the cadmium sulphide mineral greenockite as source of the metal . |
| 29 | Yet it should never be forgotten that some of the disquiet felt about institutional care ( more fully discussed in Chapter 7 ) has arisen from the ‘ scandals ’ of chronic wards in hospitals , in which long-term patients were , on occasion , subjected to degrading treatment . |