Example sentences of "be [verb] [verb] some " in BNC.

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1 Old habits and traditions die hard and work will be needed to be undertaken to convince some parents that they now have a tree choice of school .
2 ( a ) which sets out in summary form the most important information derived from your research and the main lessons to be learned from your interpretation of that information ; ( b ) which spells out the policy implications of your findings and , where appropriate , the follow-up actions that appear to be necessary ; and ( c ) which indicates what further research might be undertaken to pursue some of the findings uncovered by your own research .
3 Council director of planning Arthur Owen says the draft strategy his department has drawn up should be revised to include some of their suggestions .
4 The problem , as many writers since Adam Smith have recognized , is that a market can be manipulated to give some of those involved greater economic power so that competition is distorted and economic efficiency impaired .
5 He argues , therefore , that social ties may differ radically in function and should not be considered to provide some unitary benefit in terms of concepts such as emotional support .
6 For instance , if one paragraph discusses the history of World War II and the preceding paragraph discusses the history of World War I , then the second paragraph may be modified to include some introductory sentence such as , ‘ The next world war … ‘ .
7 It comes down to this : can the ERM be modified to preserve some of the benefits of exchange-rate stability , while allowing governments greater freedom to change monetary policy according to domestic economic circumstances ?
8 On the other hand , the group of verbs which occur with predicate qualifiers will be expected to exhibit some degree of compatibility with the noun phrase element of the structure which they govern , although this does not imply that they have to make exactly the same sort of sense when they occur with that phrase alone as they do when the adjective is present , for the very reason that the adjective provides the syntactic-semantic condition under which the relation between the verb and its object holds ; compare leave the items and leave the items date-stamped .
9 You could be expected to do some of these things , but not all .
10 However , the builder may be expected to make some contribution towards travelling time and costs where he has failed to obtain suitable sub-contract labour within the vicinity of the site and a subcontractor is requested to travel an excessive distance .
11 A national industrial relations system formulated with labour organisations which are an adjunct to a successful nationalist movement , which has secured independence , may be expected to show some characteristics different from [ one ] in which national independence antedated the union movements or in which the union movements played a minor role in the nationalist movement .
12 However , you would be expected to show some knowledge of , and interest in the affairs of the authority in question and of the issues affecting local government generally .
13 Certainly , the habituation process described in Chapter 2 will be engaged during the first stage of a latent inhibition experiment and might be expected to play some part in determining the outcome .
14 Whether the risk is one against which the occupier may reasonably be expected to offer some protection will depend upon factors which are more usually taken into account when assessing the standard of care , e.g. the nature and extent of the risk , practicability of precautions and , possibly , the type of entrant .
15 Furthermore , as already noted , there will be extensive central control of local authorities who will be expected to surrender some of their responsibility for direct provision of services .
16 This module would , Minsky suggests , alone have access to the model ( again possibly false , of course ) of how it itself related to all the other , lower , modules , and it might be expected to have some property of the type we refer to as consciousness or self-consciousness .
17 As a result she was present at the important council meetings at the end of the year and it would be surprising if her voice was not heard in the discussions about the future of Aquitaine — all the more so since she could be expected to have some influence over her children , and particularly over Richard .
18 The second was that the son ‘ could be expected to have some influence over his elderly parents , and that is something of which the plaintiffs … should have been aware . ’
19 Candidates will normally be expected to have some postgraduate or teaching experience , although training will be provided by the University 's Centre for Teaching , Learning and Assessment .
20 It could be argued that the requirement of regularity is unduly restrictive and reflects the rationale of the Trade Descriptions Act 1968 , namely , the additional duties imposed on suppliers should only fall on those who can , because of the regularity of their dealings , be expected to have some competence in relation to the goods supplied .
21 Even commentaries on those crafts which might be expected to throw some new light on the broader " aesthetic environment " of mosaic , such as Lucian 's Dream , are of little assistance .
22 As Lévi-Strauss himself acknowledges , all social phenomena can of course be said to possess or exhibit ‘ structure ’ ( i.e. some degree of orderliness and patterning ) , just as , with almost equal plausibility , they can be claimed to have some functional significance .
23 Perhaps I may also be permitted to use some of your space to assure your readers that the arrival of Triassic and Lilla for our Summer Gala ( June 20th/21st ) was not intended to be in any way the last minute and the locomotives arrived just two days before the event , so we preferred not to advertise them in advance so as to avoid disappointment .
24 Most indexing terms in a thesaurus are ‘ uniterms ’ or single-concept terms , although in some instances a deliberate decision may be made to include some multi-concept terms .
25 ‘ Liverpool had also bought Mark Wright and when a club has spent more than £5m they are bound to be looking to recoup some money .
26 They would be looking to gain some practical advantage — promotion or extra pay . ’
27 Often a random pattern is adopted and on observation the cleaner often can be seen to cover some parts of an area many times yet miss others .
28 The observations on immortality in Chapter Thirteen may be seen to have some bearing on this .
29 Could not something be done to obtain some repair jobs to hold those workers so that they will not have to be laid off for a considerable time ?
30 More can be done to cut some of the regulatory burdens our shipping industry faces .
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