Example sentences of "to [be] [vb pp] [conj] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , though , it has to be said that some of the local urban excitements have been on the tame side recently : a swimming pool murder , an outbreak of cholesterol war between rival pizza outlets , the car that drove into the non-drive-in dry cleaners , and so on . |
| 2 | It needs to be said that some handicapped readers ( brain-damaged or retarded ) can fully enjoy books : we have the lesson of Cushla as an inspiration here ( Butler , 1979 ) . |
| 3 | It has to be said that some species are notoriously difficult to acclimatise to aquarium life when collected from the wild , but once the acclimatisation process is complete they will usually become resilient and even robust . |
| 4 | Reserve requirements on banks will have to be standardized if some banks are not to suffer a competitive disadvantage . |
| 5 | ‘ Neither , ’ he continued in the same gentle tone of voice , ‘ am I prepared to be cast as some Viking lover straight out of a Hollywood film , rampaging and raping so that you can put the full responsibilities of your actions on me . |
| 6 | During and after this resource allocation planning , there will be pressure for more projects to be undertaken and some persuasive reasons for doing so will be given . |
| 7 | It is to be hoped that some of the numerous shales in the Devonian and Carboniferous sections may prove to have been sufficiently ductile to restrain escape over the long timespan involved , despite the degree of deformation to which they have been subjected . |
| 8 | Now that Kilwinning has mushroomed from being a small village to having a population of almost 16,500 , it is to be hoped that some of the new residents will take an interest in the town 's historic past and will ensure the continued existence of the Ancient Society of Kilwinning Archers and the papingo shoot . |
| 9 | Arncliff folk were so poor — the meagre belongings of all twenty-seven totalling no more than £9. 7s. 4d. — that when the subsidy came to be levied , Robert Selson and William Prysche , with 20s. apiece , John Knolles ( 26s. 8d. ) , and Thomas and Leonard Atkynson ( 10s. each ) were selected as if at random and assessed at £2 each ; although the first two also enjoyed tiny incomes from land , it is to be hoped that some at least of their neighbours chipped in to make up the shilling due from each . |
| 10 | It is to be hoped that some day this fruitful field will be explored and the results given to us in English . |
| 11 | It is to be hoped that some day this fruitful field will be explored and the results given to us in English . |
| 12 | It is greatly to be hoped that some version of the censorship hypothesis holds because close to naked singularities it may be possible to travel into the past . |
| 13 | It is to be hoped that some will find their way to Norfolk and Lowestoft classes this autumn . |
| 14 | Because crime short stories have continued to be written and some of the very best of them have appeared in the Television Age . |
| 15 | Although cholesterol has come to be regarded as some sort of evil , a certain amount is actually essential for some aspects of physical health such as repairing lining membranes and the manufacture of sex hormones . |
| 16 | He quotes the words of Francis Bacon in the sixteenth century : " Some books are to be tasted , others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested . " |
| 17 | For the growth of a forest , the fires have to be stopped and some enrichment planting of early successional species tried , e.g. Canarium zeylanicum ( Burseraceae ) , Artocarpus nobilis ( Moraceae ) and Vitex pinnata ( Verbenaceae ) , etc. to restore the tree cover . |
| 18 | Presumably your clothes will need to be altered or some new ones purchased . |
| 19 | The two other bases , at Athens airport and at Nea Makri north-east of Athens , were to be closed but some of their facilities and operations would be transferred to the remaining bases and auxiliary installations . |
| 20 | It is unlikely that any one cause is going to be found but some statistics may shed light on the larger scale , spread and upward trends in debt . |
| 21 | He said : ‘ Members of the public are not going to be told that some of the monkeys they see climbing on their cars today could be in a lab tomorrow . |
| 22 | While the Duke of Argyll had indeed a well-established interest in the county , and John Campbell of Mamore had a long tenure of the parliamentary seat , it is hardly to be wondered that some of the gentlemen resented that blunt statement of Campbell power . |
| 23 | Blacksmithing must have been a common occupation with one , or probably more , smith in each town and settlement , though it has to be remembered that some of the larger country estates , such as Chedworth , were virtually self-sufficient with their own resident smiths . |