Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] be some [noun] " in BNC.

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1 There does need to be some organisation and structure , teachers do need time to organise their classrooms before the start of school and no one really wants to engage in long discussions when there are children to be settled and registers to be marked .
2 Usually to be defined as child sex abuse I think w for most authors there 'd need to be some kind of discrepancy in the ages in some way , that is y'know if somebody was about thirteen and the other person was about eighteen it might be ah starting to get er a big enough discrepancy to be outside the realm of of y'know kind of normal y'know sort of boyfriend and girlfriend to use those saccarinous terms erm relationships and maybe might be considered to be er to be something like child abuse .
3 It 's expected to be some weeks before all the shops damaged in the arson attack can be re-opened .
4 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 .
5 For that , there has to be some evidence that the pupils or students are responding to what is put before them .
6 Thus although the general attitude of the public is sympathetic to the mentally handicapped in our society , there remains an overriding sense of pity that they are as they are , and a feeling that there has to be some degree of segregation between them and the rest of society .
7 Thus there has to be some degree of policy enthusiasm for prevention and outpatient services if the dominance of hospital inpatient beds over the care system is to change in any one administrative area .
8 In the end there has to be some way of restructuring the mode of analysis to take account both of gender differences in role , status and resources within the family , and also outside it .
9 In other words , if this programme is to succeed there has to be some way of associating plain honest numbers with abstract operators .
10 ‘ I 'm sure there has to be some way round this , Mr Braithwaite .
11 There has to be some way to persuade people to enter before an event .
12 ‘ But when you go on telly there has to be some compromise , like I swear all the f—ing time , but that does n't bother me , I do n't feel like I 'm selling my life away just to get on the telly . ’
13 Instead , there simply has to be some consensus among the Rowdies that if things got really bad he would still maintain his stance and be man enough to deal with it .
14 It has to be some kind of conspiracy .
15 There has to be some kind of learning principle behind what they are asking .
16 ‘ In any family situation where both parents are working , there has to be some division of labour , so we both concentrated on different aspects of the household commitments .
17 When things get very black there has to be some echo of the religious sense ; the longing for a sense of redemption is a deep human need .
18 There is at least one similarity between the two approaches : there has to be some mechanism by which something corresponding to a complex ref-O is represented .
19 Thus there has to be some mechanism that would eliminate the very large effective cosmological constant and so change the rate of expansion from an accelerated one to one that is slowed down by gravity , as we have today .
20 It means that there has to be some violence used against the woman to overbear her will or that there has to be a threat of violence as a result of which her will is overborne . ’
21 It ca n't be just figures it has to be some sort of er summation does n't it as well or not ?
22 So far as far as water sports are concerned I would make one reservation which is that there has to be some form of rationalization between competed sports which may conflict with each other and I am sure this can be achieved through the Sports Council machinery .
23 There has to be some dynamism in love .
24 I 'm not a legal man myself , but there has to be some charge the law can bring .
25 me , my mate and paul had a terrible night out after the spurs game : first we were supposed to meet two fellow norw. at a pub ( the black lion ? ) and they never showed up — then we went downtown to the marquee which was empty ( 8 quid out of the window ) and a not the place to go at a saturday nite ( no live music , just house — which i quite like — but there has to be some people around ) — then standing in queue at ‘ the borderline ’ for a couple of hours not getting in … and it was bloody cold ( hi paul ) — the wind just froze my balls of ( well nearly ) … the meet-up was cozy though — no problems finding the guys ( or rather : just look for mr cantona ) and time for a couple of pints before and after the game and no problem wearing a leeds outfit at the pub … i was not sporting my leeds away scarf when among the newcastle crowd though ; - )
26 ‘ There has to be some step between club and country .
27 There has to be some trade-off between the benefits of open access and the value of integrated programmes , and I think the balance of advantage lies with the integrative approach .
28 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 .
29 There needs to be some procedure for describing the child 's wider development , as a person , as a learner .
30 There needs to be some procedure , however , which is akin to the analysand coming to accept the analysts ' interpretations in the analytic setting for the hypotheses to be said to have been tested .
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