Example sentences of "be [adj] [verb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , though the only currently practicable approach to identifying rural deprivation was an area based one and although it has been possible to make some sense of census data for rural areas , they still concluded , in line with Knox and Cottam , that it would be far better if the analysis could be performed at the individual level . |
| 2 | Although it might have been possible to attempt some form of categorisation of the types of detail which were recalled at different risk levels , it is not clear that the data from this study are really powerful enough to support such an analysis . |
| 3 | Provided both are prepared to give some ground it is possible to sort out roles afresh and to plan new patterns for the marriage . |
| 4 | But we are prepared to give some guidelines or pointers as to the practice and procedure to be adopted when a hearing as to a wasted costs order takes place . |
| 5 | They are so strongly committed to their unionism that they are prepared to go some way towards moving some of their evangelical principles into the area of private life and personal choice , rather than alienate non-evangelical unionists . |
| 6 | Lots of men I know are prepared to take some time ensuring their children 's food is fresh and safe , once they understand the issues . ’ |
| 7 | If a long time is spent teaching pupils how to present work and arguments neatly , insisting on underlined headings , dates , and sharp pencils , there are going to be problems convincing them that rough work is valuable and that you are prepared to spend some time looking at it . |
| 8 | September , when the landscape is still green , can be very nice if you are prepared to risk some rain . |
| 9 | It is therefore fair to say that , as a general rule , the courts are prepared to imply some degree of mobility into every contract of employment but this is likely to be limited unless the nature of the job or work performed by the employee is one where mobility would be recognised by both sides as being essential to the job . |
| 10 | Fears of what might happen in the East are one reason EC leaders have been willing to offer some help to those on the other side of the broken Berlin Wall . |
| 11 | ‘ I am free to make some phone calls , am I ? |
| 12 | These commands will do the job but , if you are willing to spend some money , there are programs available which will make the whole process much easier , even automating back-ups so that your data is kept fully secure at all times . |
| 13 | ‘ I need to feel that you are willing to make some effort . ’ |
| 14 | Character oozes from it , and I am content to spend some time studying its many features before I set up a rod . |
| 15 | and then they 're supposed to do some work with the form teacher talking about where the strengths and weaknesses li , you know again . |
| 16 | Just the same as , see there 's so many out of work the amount of people that are going for the jobs , there 's so many of them they erm they 're all got some sort of experience , even if it 's just doing a a week . |
| 17 | Yeah erm so er yeah right that 's er because I mean what 's nice to see in these things is if you 're able to tell some sort of coherent little story from er y'know kind of these er people 's ideas , themes , speculations , evidence from previous studies and all that kind of thing and this is this is the data that we 've got that tells us something about those and says how misconceived they all are or how it may confirm them or whatever and then y'know a couple of bits sort of so it 's like a nice narrative but sort of fairly y'know sort of continuous argument going through which is nice to see and so er yeah . |
| 18 | You 're desperate to see some progress and push a plan to success , so today 's delays will be all the more infuriating . |
| 19 | One particular area in which technical terms are likely to cause some problems is that of grammar : and here we shall follow the terminology and general view of grammar presented in Quirk and Greenbaum 's University Grammar of English . " |
| 20 | Even after the release of the original data , our datasets are likely to retain some value , since it would require considerable effort to reproduce them . |
| 21 | Now it appears that the four main front runners will continue to dominate the scene though we are likely to witness some elbowing in the scrum . |
| 22 | Of course , you are likely to get some people who say that they thought of it first . |
| 23 | Now the indications are that they are likely to provide some funding though we have n't had that formally in writing yet . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , it would seem sensible to say that , given a set of firms in a perfectly competitive market , some of which ( perhaps because of a more concentrated distribution of shares ) face quite tight constraints on their efficiency , these relatively efficient firms are likely to provide some form of policing function over the others . |
| 25 | Further damage and paint loss , caused by changes in humidity and temperature during the paintings ' absence , are likely to appear some time in the future , as is usual with sensitive panels . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , since evolution is a conservative process our brains are likely to contain some components in common with other mammals in so far as they contain features that were characteristic of the common ancestor . |
| 27 | Although this varies a great deal from patient to patient , all post-operative patients are likely to have some degree of anxiety and/or pain . |
| 28 | And it has to be said that most of us are likely to have some kind of experience when our ego is deflated ; and that can often have a beneficial not a negative effect . |
| 29 | Taxi drivers in any East European city are likely to speak some German and , having grasped the problem , he suggested I follow along behind him . |
| 30 | The problem of designing a complete research project is frequently encountered by university lecturers who have to supervise undergraduate dissertations which are supposed to have some element , no matter how small , of ‘ research ’ in them . |