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

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1 The maker hand-cuts the kerfing ( the triangular-section strip around the inside edge that increases the gluing area of the sides for securing the front and back ) so that the saw-cuts are widely spaced in some areas and closely spaced around the tight curves of the cutaway .
2 Now you ca n't possibly test a medicine on ten thousand people before you start to sell it , so that sort of risk , as rare a risk as that , will only be picked up when the medicine has actually been in use and on the market and been properly prescribed for some years , and what we are doing now , and what is particularly interesting , is to start to use computers to pick up these adverse reactions so that we know much more quickly in future if a medicine is doing any harm and we can either stop prescribing it for the people who are going to suffer from it , and that 's the most likely thing , or else take it off the market altogether if it 's if we do n't if we ca n't pick out the people who might be at risk .
3 No single measure of public expenditure has met with universal agreement , and even when one has been widely used for some time , it can be subject to change for a variety of reasons .
4 Maybe , when Lisabeth had been forcibly retired to some maximum security retirement home in Frinton ( as the sign said : ‘ Harwich for the Continent ; Frinton for the Incontinent ’ ) then I 'd consider it .
5 Aden was at that time an RAF command , in which the operational policy of air control had been successfully applied for some years .
6 They 'd obviously been badly infected at some time .
7 But the case has been greatly overstated in some popular publications , and genuine psychological problems wrongly attributed to food sensitivity , both by patients and fringe practitioners .
8 In Russia , on the other hand , commanders such as Rumyantsev and Suvorov had developed to a high pitch of effectiveness by the end of this period the more aggressive method of attack in column with the bayonet ( though the contrast between Russian and West European tactics has been greatly exaggerated by some Soviet historians ) .
9 Nevertheless , a radical editorial reorganization called the Bradshaw shift , involving the moving of fragment VII as one large block back to the end of fragment II , with these fragments then relabelled groups B2 and B1 respectively , has been eagerly accepted by some editors and critics since the nineteenth century , wishing to solve thereby certain anomalies in the ordering of named places that the pilgrims would pass on their road to Canterbury .
10 ’ This part of the Health Secretary 's speech would have been better set to some wailing violins .
11 In our first few hours of membership we are highly attuned to some of the assumptions .
12 The report , undertaken by independent scientists at the request of the International Atomic Energy Agency and other UN bodies , has been fiercely criticized by some environmentalists and also by officials in the Ukraine and Belorussia — the regions worst affected by the accident .
13 In parts of Britain , particularly in parts of Wales , second home ownership has been fiercely contested by some locals , but it is hard to judge whether such opposition is justified .
14 A crucial assumption of the kinds of statistical calculations we have been referring to is that the sample has been randomly drawn from some population .
15 Descriptors are normally accompanied by some display of relationships between them and other words in the indexing language .
16 The numbers in each year are progressively multiplied by some survival ratio to forecast the number going on to the next year , with ancillary information added in as appropriate .
17 Instead , ways of doing the job are broadly guided by some vaguely interpreted principles about what the organization 's legal mandate is supposed to be and organized by the experience they acquire from their membership of an enforcement bureaucracy .
18 The fibre of beans and lentils are easily turned into some foul-smelling windy by this process .
19 are not based on some economic theory but on things I and millions like me were brought up with : an honest day 's work for an honest day 's pay ; live within your means ; put a nest egg by for a rainy day ; pay your bills on time ; support the police .
20 Quite often leases are not granted until some years after the agreement for lease with the result that the fair copy has to be typed on to the landlord 's solicitor 's updated wordprocessing system .
21 It is a fact that very few draft reports are not amended in some respect as a result of this procedure .
22 Such sums are not obtained without some sort of commitment to success which , in contemporary terms , means circulation and advertising rather than a blind commitment to a political creed .
23 Many such whales , however , do produce powerful vocalizations and their lack of such structures does not mean that they are not equipped with some other , equally well-designed , auditory and echo-locating system .
24 erm In some cases this can cause difficulty and some self-employed people who have erm tried to erm get the necessary documentations to claim this , have found that they 're not covered in some countries of the European Community erm because the general national erm insurance schemes there do n't erm apply to self-employed people .
25 It always says , or equivalent , that 's just in order to open up the possibilities like this , so that we 're not caught by some legalistic oath .
26 We might hold that our beliefs about our sensory states are always justified to some degree just because of their subject matter ( non-inferentially , therefore ) , whereas most other beliefs are justified inferentially if at all ; one could suppose this in an attempt to make sense of the empiricist idea that our beliefs about our present experience have a stability which other beliefs lack , in virtue of which they are able to justify those other beliefs and thus meet the empiricist demand ( vaguely expressed here ) that all our knowledge be grounded in our experience .
27 Steady-state forecasts are always based on some assumptions about social system behaviour .
28 Your feelings of inadequacy are always triggered by some external event or happening .
29 Your feelings of inhibition are always triggered by some external event or happening .
30 The ambit of the Act has been further expanded by some of the decisions on it .
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