Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [verb] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If our democracy is to retain popular support and respect , it seems vital that the 60pc of voters regularly voting for change are given some opportunity to bring their ideals and values to bear on society . |
| 2 | Nevertheless their energy and inventiveness were getting some development experts excited . |
| 3 | Indeed a mill design developed during the 1950s was turned down by a local planning enquiry : one of the aims of the CEGB 's current wind programme is to gain some feedback on public attitudes to modern designs . |
| 4 | The purpose of this chapter is to provide some part of the conceptual clarification and social and historical background that is essential to an analysis of the nature of ‘ race ’ as an element in British education and society . |
| 5 | King 's College is facing some difficulty today and the Whittington had problems yesterday . |
| 6 | The object of this rather clumsy piece of administration is to place some check on the expenditure of local money on the arts — and also to provide a further checkpoint on students who have already received educational grants for other careers . |
| 7 | With static systems , recognition is performed some time after the handwriting has been produced . |
| 8 | ‘ The murder was committed some time between twelve and three . |
| 9 | The intention was to gain some insight into ‘ the whole curriculum at operational level ’ . |
| 10 | Among those on income support only 22 per cent were receiving any maintenance , which represents a substantial fall since 1979 , when half of lone parents on supplementary benefit were receiving some maintenance . |
| 11 | The editing problem is that this particular group of shots ends with the boat 's abrupt departure — we go suddenly from shots of the men at work to one in which the boat is already in motion : in effect , we have a jump-cut , and your task as editor is to find some way of bridging the gap in the action . |
| 12 | This proposal is meeting some resistance at the UN 's headquarters in New York . |
| 13 | When this behaviour is seen for the first time , the owners may become seriously concerned , imagining that the cat is having some kind of fit or seizure . |
| 14 | On many occasions assessments will be carried out because it is suspected that a child is experiencing some difficulty with linguistic communication , or because there are other areas of functioning in which the child is having difficulty which may have implications for language development . |
| 15 | That 's why er many authors insist on that aspect of child sex abuse , that erm apparent consent or even y'know when it seems that the child is expressing some curiosity about that these activities , nevertheless it 's abusive . |
| 16 | That organisations as diverse as shipbuilding , meat processors , training agencies and hotels saw fit to participate must be encouraging and some degree of recognition that marketing as a business philosophy is making some impact on the Scottish psyche . |
| 17 | On my way back from Ents Committee last week , erm the internal mail bloke was delivering some gear to computer services , and he left the back of the post van open . |
| 18 | I was pressed with an argument that the assignees were not customers of B.C.C.I. The purpose of the Act was to provide some protection for persons who had chosen to become customers of the bank and who were accepted by the bank as customers . |
| 19 | As for your acceptance of the Spanish government 's line that ETA is planning some sort of violence during the Olympics , the discovered documents do not prove anything . |
| 20 | Marginally , the most likely reaction is to offer some clarification or explanation . |
| 21 | The project 's basic aim is to throw some light on the short-term forces making for change first on patterns of voting turnout and secondly on patterns of party choice , especially the vote for the governing party . |
| 22 | Another interesting move is to have some evening fixtures . |
| 23 | The big problem with this latter group is to find some sort of unifying factor that will make sense or give a theme to a miscellany of oddments that are less than distinguished . |
| 24 | This became the object of pilgrimage until the shrine was destroyed some time in the 16th century . |
| 25 | Although the London conference was arranged some time ago it became an opportunity for the princess to deliver her pledge in a speech re-written in the past day or two . |
| 26 | In this case , the meeting was arranged some time ago . |
| 27 | The Cabinet already suspected that U Saw was planning some act of retaliation ( he resigned on returning from London and did not attempt to contest the election ) . |
| 28 | There capitalism was making some progress . |
| 29 | However this body was experiencing some role ambiguity and since it possessed no formal power to ensure that its professional judgement was heeded , it tended to define its function as advisory rather than inspectorial . |
| 30 | ‘ We were all set to come to Czechoslovakia for her to see you and for us then to take a holiday while her husband was doing some work in America . |