Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [verb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After 2km ( just over a mile ) the left-hand branch of the road from Hinterthal reaches the entrance to the remarkable Holloch Caverns ( the labyrinthine passages of which are calculated to extend some 93km ( 58 miles ) ; 1km ( half a mile ) of the caves are open to visitors ) . |
| 2 | The new tiers of membership , which become available this month , are intended to add some teeth to the X/Open 's existing system vendor , independent software vendor and user councils , described by X/Open chief technical officer Mike Lambert as pure ‘ talking shops . ’ |
| 3 | The following example module headers are intended to provide some guidelines on how the various fields might be filled in . |
| 4 | Mairi Campbell of BOC at Cumbernauld and Jean Buchan of Playtex at Port Glasgow took part in Exercise Executive Stretch , 48 hours of physical and mental challenges that are designed to have some feedback into management skills . |
| 5 | Appeal courts are expected to show some mercy because the defendant has twice had to face the ordeal of being sentenced . |
| 6 | A brief test at the end of this chapter has been designed to give some idea of how much of a ‘ lark ’ or ‘ owl ’ you are . |
| 7 | Study at such world levels can now be achieved first because enough process data have been collected to allow some degree of national and world pattern to be discerned ; secondly because international cooperation has been initiated specifically to remedy the past deficiencies of data coverage ; and thirdly because the opportunities of remote sensing are now beginning to provide further clues to the world picture . |
| 8 | Like most works that are felt to mark some kind of watershed in the history of music , Peter Grimes has been heavily probed for , among other things , debts to and possible borrowings from the works of other composers . |
| 9 | In this chapter an attempt has been made to explore some evidence about teachers , teaching and teachers ' work . |
| 10 | If you 're asked to analyse some concept , it wo n't be sufficient merely to describe it . |
| 11 | You 're allowed to have some water are n't you ? |
| 12 | Your back was patted ( not stabbed ) and you 've just been told to invest some company money in some brand new metal . |
| 13 | Pupils received a pat on the back for satisfactory learning and community work but heads have been told to review some management and teaching methods . |
| 14 | The question of why markets are used to coordinate some activities while others are coordinated within firms , often hierarchically , has now become of central interest in much of the work on the economics of firms and public sector agencies . |
| 15 | Results of end-of-year tests in mathematics , English , science and the first foreign language are used to reallocate some pupils to a new stream at the beginning of the new school year . |
| 16 | The model has also been used to explain some aspects of sentence production in normals , such as slips of the tongue and hesitations : for more on this , see Garrett ( 1982 ) . |
| 17 | These devices are thought to reflect some filters of the brain through which perceptions are directed . |
| 18 | Because the disease is more common in women , female sex hormones are thought to play some sort of role in its development . |
| 19 | Most private schools are thought to have some level of bad debt , like any business , but in the past those debts have been chased by a stiff letter from the school 's solicitor rather than a debt collection agency . |
| 20 | P.S. Just pointing out you are bound to need some wrapping paper . |
| 21 | The sad part about the whole sorry affair is that you appear to have been badly let down by those who by rights ought to feel indebted to you , but with the Sun in Aries and that part of your solar chart related to affairs of the heart you are bound to win some kind of moral victory , and even if you do decide to make a settlement this month you should still feel you really have much to celebrate . |
| 22 | You are bound to meet some people and some situations which preclude speechreading . |
| 23 | Uranus and Neptune occupy the same degree of your sign on February 2 and October 24 and , although these periods may coincide with an awakening of sorts , you are bound to experience some sense of unreality . |
| 24 | The Greek Defence Ministry and their Secret Service are bound to have some cryptologists on their staffs . |
| 25 | Team scores are compared to introduce some rivalry ( which usually means that participants work into the early hours later in the course ) , and critiques prepared on how their performance might be improved through reference to Grid styles . |
| 26 | Apart from the fact that ‘ To Kill a Mockingbird ’ is written in the 1 st Person narrative and is an older person retelling incidents from their childhood thinking as if they were still that child and although due to the age of this child , not all incidents are understood making some parts comical meaning that the humorous style contrasts with the horror , I think in many ways , Harper Lee 's style is similar to that of Rosa Guy . |
| 27 | Old habits and traditions die hard and work will be needed to be undertaken to convince some parents that they now have a tree choice of school . |
| 28 | On the other hand , the group of verbs which occur with predicate qualifiers will be expected to exhibit some degree of compatibility with the noun phrase element of the structure which they govern , although this does not imply that they have to make exactly the same sort of sense when they occur with that phrase alone as they do when the adjective is present , for the very reason that the adjective provides the syntactic-semantic condition under which the relation between the verb and its object holds ; compare leave the items and leave the items date-stamped . |
| 29 | However , the builder may be expected to make some contribution towards travelling time and costs where he has failed to obtain suitable sub-contract labour within the vicinity of the site and a subcontractor is requested to travel an excessive distance . |
| 30 | However , you would be expected to show some knowledge of , and interest in the affairs of the authority in question and of the issues affecting local government generally . |