Example sentences of "be [vb pp] some [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was customary in those days for the ablest students to be given some responsibility for teaching the younger pupils . |
| 2 | The live anniversary performance of Messiah by George Frederic Handel ( C4 , Monday : 8.30–11.40 pm ) will be given some way from down-at-heel Fishamble Street at the Point Theatre . |
| 3 | Though this may be the case , it would be helpful to be given some idea of the potential cost-benefits and disadvantages . |
| 4 | For that to happen , students have to be given some space in which to develop intellectually in their own way . |
| 5 | From the time of James 's second Indulgence , most Whigs and Nonconformists had come out against the suspending power , on the promise that if they stuck by the Church , they would be given some measure of toleration . |
| 6 | Ellwood crouched down alongside the priest and looked this way and that , as if he might be given some notion of what to do next . |
| 7 | As far as possible , students will be given some choice of location . |
| 8 | Later on in my undergraduate career I was lucky enough to be given some teaching by Dr Douglas Ross , consultant in Glasgow , and had personal experience of the efficacy of homoeopathy when he cured the gingivitis ( inflammation of the gums ) which had been plaguing me for three weeks with a homoeopathic preparation of mercury . |
| 9 | He said : ‘ I think the processors will be given some confidence as a result of the meeting but I think the fishermen will wish we had been able to do something dramatic . |
| 10 | Well thing is people are moving to an area they may be given some information by their company but |
| 11 | The person to be interviewed should be given some indication of the topic and possibly of the kinds of questions they might be asked but it is important that there should not be any rehearsal of the interview as they will then lose their spontaneity . |
| 12 | Many , of course , are not , and that would seem to increase the need for the advantaged children to be given some understanding of the harsh world in which many other children have to live . |
| 13 | Instead she suggests that the content of the formal curriculum should be entirely overhauled : ‘ for girls to become a more powerful group , they must be given some understanding of females ' past powerlessness … in other subject areas , like English literature , social studies , art , biology and — where it is taught — psychology , there is a similar need to examine what girls are learning about women 's abilities and potential , and therefore what they should ( realistically ) expect for themselves ’ ( Hannon , 1979 , p. 115 ) . |
| 14 | And this is a matter which must be given some weight in decision when you combine it with the other factors also which we have gone through today . |
| 15 | And that the district should be given some form of a guide that enables them to be er to apply the particular circumstances to their own district . |
| 16 | This led to divorce from his wife , who could perhaps be permitted some schadenfreude at the fact that Van Den Hauwe 's relationship had , perforce , become platonic . |
| 17 | Yet personal encounters , first as Cripps 's deputy in the Treasury and later as chancellor of the exchequer , persuaded Gaitskell that there were some people in Washington who appreciated that Britain must be granted some safeguards for her economy . |
| 18 | He 'd not get her , I know , but he would be granted some access to her . ’ |
| 19 | Secondly , in determining the language units to be used some form of categorisation takes place so that we decide whether to call the agent Fred' , or ‘ the fat boy ’ , or ‘ Paul 's son ’ or ‘ he ’ . |
| 20 | This is not simply a matter of becoming uncomfortably aware that the rapid increase of world population and accelerated industrialization pose a serious threat to the environment both by the massive consumption of finite material resources and by the emission of man-made heat and chemicals into the atmosphere ; a situation dramatically portrayed in a report by the Club of Rome ( Meadows et al. , 1972 ) , subsequently much criticized but now taken more seriously again , which concluded that : ‘ If the present growth trends in world population , industrialization , pollution , food production , and resource depletion continue unchanged , the limits to growth on this planet will be reached some time within the next one hundred years . ’ |
| 21 | You will probably be asked some questions about your health , and you will need to have a routine chest X-ray if you have n't had one lately . |
| 22 | For Christian Aid to be involved some elements of Christian Aid 's normal programme of work would need to be included : |
| 23 | I knew this to be true and believed firmly that when the word was given me in 1986 it would be fulfilled some time in the future . |
| 24 | On page six of our agenda there are congress organization motions which clearly need to be discussed some time during this congress because they concern rule amendments , and if they do fall off the agenda because debate is long on the other things , I really do believe they should take priority because we wo n't be raising them for another three years . |
| 25 | A doctor of medicine is in the same social class as a company director but is more likely than the director to be accorded some degree of deference by the local community . |
| 26 | Anyway , you will be allowed some rest after spending all night out here . ’ |
| 27 | All those judges agreed on the abstract propositions that statutes make law and that precedent decisions must be allowed some influence over later decisions . |
| 28 | There is also the point that district society presidents are all volunteers and work very hard for the good of the district society and the Institute and it is a pity if they can not be allowed some enjoyment from their endeavours and also make new friendships which will last a lifetime . |
| 29 | In another measure , the Government extended the Landlord and Tenant Act protection to the licensed trade but they would not bring it in immediately — it had to be implemented some time in the future . |
| 30 | Money for use today can be bought in exchange for money to be repaid some time in the future . |