Example sentences of "to be [vb pp] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Choice of topic to be studied Some of the reasons why researchers choose their topics have been discussed on p. 11 , and this issue is considered at greater length in chapter 6 . |
| 2 | A gantry traffic light will be installed above the centre of the road , hand railing will provide additional protection for pedestrians , and the bus stop outside Milroy Walk is likely to be moved some metres south and recessed into the wide pavement . |
| 3 | Since then , there have been about half a dozen glitzy launches — featuring among others , the Home Secretary grinning into the television cameras , telling us that something was going to be done some time . |
| 4 | ‘ If the players are to be given some incentive , they really have to get the North going as it was . |
| 5 | When he asks to be given some of the soup , Jacob seizes the opportunity , and exchanges a bowl of it for Esau 's privileges as the firstborn . |
| 6 | It was customary in those days for the ablest students to be given some responsibility for teaching the younger pupils . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 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 | In fact , the legal force of any particular rule depends partly on the source of its authority ( essentially , whether it is supported by statute or not ) ; partly on the way it is drafted ( rules which are drafted in precise technical language are more likely to be given some legal force than are rules drafted loosely and non-technically ) ; and partly on its contents . |
| 10 | Though this may be the case , it would be helpful to be given some idea of the potential cost-benefits and disadvantages . |
| 11 | For that to happen , students have to be given some space in which to develop intellectually in their own way . |
| 12 | The school , of course , had existed for some years now , ever since the Factory Act which her father could not mention without turning purple , had thought it advisable for factory children to be given some education , feeling that an hour or two a week per child , perhaps , of reading , writing and arithmetic , would not go amiss . |
| 13 | to allow the considerations for and provisions of the emergent Structure Plan Review , insofar as they had status , to be given some , but no overriding , value in the consideration of the merits of this appeal . |
| 14 | However , if the unit is to be sited some considerable distance from the water supply , it may need to be thicker to prevent excessive voltage drop — loudspeaker wire , for example . |
| 15 | For Christian Aid to be involved some elements of Christian Aid 's normal programme of work would need to be included : |
| 16 | A spokesman said about one-third of the sewage load from the town is due to be diverted some time this year to a new treatment plant . |
| 17 | For the foreman to be dreened some more . |
| 18 | Money for use today can be bought in exchange for money to be repaid some time in the future . |
| 19 | The main time may well be from harvest through to April the following year , but netting is in fact selective because the size of the mesh allows small rabbits to escape — to be netted some other time when they have grown bigger . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | For Pound undoubtedly made the poem more obscure by asking for the excision of some transitional and bridging passages where the language was not at full pressure , but on the other hand he caused to be removed some extended sections which , being plainly extraneous , could only have added to readers ' bafflement . |
| 22 | Nottingham Forest are planning a £500,000 bid for the big Ballyclare man ; expect it to be tabled some time next week . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Finally deciding it was not only pointless , but spineless as well to stand at the door waiting for a man who would n't come , she went up to bed , and surprisingly she fell asleep almost at once , only to be woken some hours later by a violent storm . |
| 25 | They know the truth : that life with an aged parent can be a strange mixture of joy and sorrow , and all they ask is for that fact to be accepted , not glossed over by their family and society , and then to be offered some practical ideas on how to make the best of a good job , which they consider to be well worth doing . |
| 26 | Last night 's vote and the subsequent meeting , to be held some time next month , is bound to re-fuel the huge controversy that resulted from Gower 's non-selection behind South African rebel Mike Gatting . |
| 27 | I would think that 's out because it would destroy the value of the house er that , that has got to be sold some time . |
| 28 | When are we going to be told some good news for a change ? ’ |
| 29 | 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 ’ . |
| 30 | 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 . |