Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [verb] some [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | If you 've taken the last exercise seriously , you 'll be able to list some changes you 'd like to make : Go on — have a go ! |
| 32 | Much more frequent mentions of captivi seem to refer to nobles , and one writer explicitly says that the reason the Vikings having arrived by boat then used horses was " so that they would be able to capture some nobles for the sake of money ( ransoms ) " . |
| 33 | At the time of writing I am involved , as I mentioned , in some surveys of visitors to the British Museum and I am hoping that we shall be able to get some schools who had had organized visits to the museum , to obtain essays about the visit from the children involved . |
| 34 | Possibly the shock of feeling hard spikes in what appeared to be a soft , yielding morsel of food would be enough to make some predators think twice , but this is not particularly convincing . |
| 35 | It will be wonderful to have some Russians . ’ |
| 36 | It was just that I and the others in the class — at least , the ones who turned up yesterday , a lot of people did n't bother — anyway , we felt it would be nice to send some flowers and a card or something to her relatives . |
| 37 | Health visitors and school nurses may advise on strategies for discipline or behavioural problems , but it may be necessary to refer some families to family guidance or the PAC which provides family therapy . |
| 38 | This is approximately measured by the number of index terms assigned to a document ( although it is possible that more than one index term may be necessary to represent some themes ) . |
| 39 | For complex work it will be necessary to create some symbols as the range supplied with SongWright 5.1 is not comprehensive . |
| 40 | Whilst it may be uneconomic to repair some goods , a Claimant should not expect the replacement of a damaged item , if an acceptable repair can be carried out . |
| 41 | If the sentence production system includes one component whose task is to retrieve specific content words from the mental lexicon , and another component whose task is to create a linguistic structure into which these content words are to be inserted , then one would not be surprised to find some patients whose speech consists of unstructured sequences of specific content words , and others whose speech has correct linguistic structure but lacks specific content words . |
| 42 | Before proceeding it may be wise to offer some definitions . |
| 43 | He will be wise to have some rewards in hand as oil to pour on any turbulent water he encounters . |
| 44 | In contrast , the government 's two senior legal advisers and the senior partner of a leading firm of society lawyers were so ignorant of this fact that it did not even enter their heads that it would be wise to make some enquiries before launching their client into a statement that could be , and indeed was , ruinous . |
| 45 | Despite the problems we are inclined to accept some homologies in the nervous system , although there is disagreement about how far one should take it . |
| 46 | Marie Claire had some novels about English girls lost in the desert at the mercy of proud sheikhs , but those girls were as proud as the sheikhs themselves and defiant too — at least until near the end of the story — and the sheikhs were prepared to make some concessions themselves by that time . |
| 47 | The three of them were able to use some sessions of family therapy to acknowledge the need to grieve for the past as well as to prepare for the future . |
| 48 | The pilots were able to search some areas below the fog , but said visibility was almost nil at higher levels . |
| 49 | Visibility was not good because of approaching darkness but the crew were able to see some trees at the approach end of the field . |
| 50 | By means of an appeal to Lenin , Bashkirs were able to secure some positions in the government , only to have their agreement with Moscow cancelled a year later when Bashkiria was forcibly incorporated in the RSFSR . |
| 51 | With a little research , it is possible to find some holidays where you can have the best of both worlds — companionship of people , but privacy when you want it . |
| 52 | It is possible to make some observations of the law relating to obscenity and indecency which indicate that , while accepting that one ought to be guided by the rule of law in censorship matters , one would be better advised to come to decisions without reference to this or that piece of obscenity or indecency legislation . |
| 53 | Nonetheless it is possible to make some observations concerning the relative dissociation rates from some of the sites . |
| 54 | Although it is possible to make some generalizations about the likely sequence of development of an intercontinental collision orogen , the pre-collision history of the active margin of the overriding plate and its subduction zone has an important influence on the subsequent evolution of an orogenic belt . |
| 55 | From this , it is possible to make some statements about the take-up of the project at grass-roots level . |
| 56 | Although , in some instances , it is possible to ratify some breaches of fiduciary duty , it would appear that according to the Privy Council ruling in Cook v. |
| 57 | Sometimes it is possible to trace some problems with tempo or balance to the parts the musicians are using . |
| 58 | The requirement to pay £75 an hour is likely to deter some patients from seeking expert opinion about the justification for their detention and the advisability of seeking discharge . |
| 59 | The circular states : ‘ A change of this significance is likely to encounter some difficulties during the early stages of implementation ’ . |
| 60 | The decision to look outside the bank for a chief executive is likely to assuage some critics of Barclays in the City . |