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

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1 These various strands of information work with the computer are combined in some of the newest developments in user education in schools .
2 Several of the group who took part most from the Certificate of Pre-Vocational Education course are handicapped in some way .
3 The problems are most acute in Africa where population pressures are also greatest , though modification of South American savannas is increasing ; desertification is occurring in some areas as a result of overgrazing .
4 The purpose of this chapter is to examine in some detail the nature of age discrimination in the workplace .
5 Benjamin Jowett ( 181793 ) , Master of Balliol College , Oxford , and one of the modernizing dons who supported endeavours to extend university education and to attract men from new social classes to Oxford , considered that " classical study is getting in some respects worn out , and the plan proposed [ the introduction of English Language and Literature at Oxford ] would breathe new life into it .
6 Nevertheless , I think its effect is to distort in some ways the dualism set up by Proust .
7 Nearly all animal fighting is restrained in some way , and contests in some species resemble highly ritualized tournaments .
8 Well , if one looks at the Sussex coast at the present day , most of the Sussex coast is protected in some way from the action of the sea , either by a sea wall , or by a groined beach .
9 The decline of community and the rise of a society in which association was becoming in some sense secondary can also be seen as reflecting some of the profound social and spatial changes that were actually taking place in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries .
10 She might have had a brief illness best treated outside the home , or it is possible that the balance of her mind was disturbed in some way .
11 The trials , tribulations ( as when Pan Am , TWS and American Airlines all cancelled their Concorde orders on the day the Lockheed SST was announced ) and the triumphs of the design , development and early flight testing are shown in some detail — including air-to-air footage of such one-offs as the BAC 221 test vehicle and the Olympus-engined Vulcan .
12 Then the general principles of the organometallic reactions involved in the synthesis are discussed in some detail .
13 It condemned " the hostile campaign being waged in some quarters to harm the credibility and legitimacy of the PLO 's representation of the Palestinian people " .
14 The Supreme Soviet ordered the authorities in those republics to set up referendum organizing commissions without delay , and ruled that alternative referendums on independence being held in some of those republics [ see p. 38014 and below ] did not constitute a legitimate substitute for the all-union referendum .
15 Many detailed studies have been carried out on the nature of the consumption relationship and all seem to agree that , for the community as a whole , consumption is related in some way to income .
16 The role of the leader of the council is recognised in some local authorities by the appointment of an officer to support his or her policy-forming function .
17 I mean if obviously the child is reacting in some way or feels that they ca n't even relax when they 're at home , erm then someone 's overstepped the mark .
18 Whether this actually demonstrates anything is debatable — we all have antibodies to Candida because we are exposed to it from birth , and a positive response to an intradermal test is seen in some healthy individuals .
19 The initial response to the rioting by the LAPD was to withdraw in some confusion .
20 Soon after Hamilton 's battle-scarred book came out , moreover , in the spring of 1988 , there appeared in Britain a kind of memoir entitled The Facts-A Novelist 's Autobiography in which the issue was addressed in some passages of exceptional interest — the gaze and forehead of Olympian Zeus after the outcries and the special and professional pleading which had surrounded all but one of these other events .
21 ‘ Not long ago a campaign was launched in some republics and provinces to convert the branches of ‘ foreign' ’ organizations into separate basic organizations .
22 Around 10% of the entire British population are disabled in some way or another , of which 20–25% are mentally handicapped .
23 Also , in the wake of the Maxwell disaster , the government has published regulations restricting self-investment by occupational pension funds to 5 per cent ( a transitional period is allowed in some cases to give schemes time to reduce any existing self-investment ) .
24 For a child with long-term language difficulties , an appropriate interpretation might be that the LAD is damaged in some way but , without a more detailed analysis of the processes at work and how they contribute to language performance , implications for intervention which stem directly from this theoretical position remain elusive .
25 [ See Fig. 3 ] The mighty Krakatoa eruption was compared in some ways with a Wagnerian opera .
26 At that time the observatory was housed in some rather dilapidated wooden huts which had seen service with the Royal Navy during the war , and these were later replaced by a fine purpose-built building which offered much better accommodation and laboratory facilities .
27 Particularly because it was only now , when he was so close to her , that every cell of her body was reacting in some primordial , incomprehensible way to his nearness , to the sheer magnetic pull of his very commanding presence , that she had become aware of the fantasy that had consumed her .
28 Nigel Steen 's body was found in some weeds nearly a mile downstream .
29 ‘ And the first time the door to the viewing room was locked in some way ? ’
30 The definition of gentleman is explored in some detail .
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