Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [verb] [prep] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Past changes in both relative equity and gilt prices have a negative influence on future expectations although interest differentials ( RATE ) are expected to persist for some time . |
| 2 | Captain Mark Phillips had been expected to remain for some time in his cottage on the estate , where he has lived since the marriage broke up three years ago . |
| 3 | Respondents are selected according to some sampling procedure to be representative of some group , collectivity , attribute or process . |
| 4 | This could be heard approaching from some distance off , owing to its lack of an exhaust pipe , and was known around the camp as the Green Devil because it had , once upon a time , been that colour all over , instead of just in places as now . |
| 5 | The hanging and design of the last room will be intended to reproduce to some extent the appearance of a Water-Colour Society 's exhibition of around 1830 with red walls . |
| 6 | Indeed , as we shall see below , Lyons ' general arguments about language differences can be claimed to rest to some extent on implicit assumptions about literacy of the kind that they make . |
| 7 | It is of interest to compare the positions of Brumfit and Krashen in this collection , positions which might be said to typify to some degree the attitudes to applied linguistics and language teaching on each side of the Atlantic . |
| 8 | The fact that the taxpayer may be said to benefit in some way from the overseas income — he was able to buy the property because the loan was made to him and he could only keep up , or he kept up , the payments of interest by using that income — is not enough to cause there to be a remittance . |
| 9 | According to a Pakistani commentary , Shahi appeared to be suggesting that once the neutrality of the area was ensured by the regional states pursuing a policy of strict non-alignment , the superpowers could perhaps be persuaded to work towards some sort of mutual accommodation . |
| 10 | Councillors on authorities other than education authorities may be invited to participate at some level in educational administration and in the case of primary schools , district and parish councils may have rights in respect of appointing governors . |
| 11 | The level to which noise needs to be reduced depends to some extent on the noise generated by the occupants : for , an elderly couple living next door to a young and lively family would complain about the noise from next door , but if the old people were replaced by another young and lively family , they would probably not find the noise excessive . |
| 12 | In other words , farmers must know the results of the negotiations and must not be left to wonder in some kind of vacuum how the negotiations will affect their income . |
| 13 | How strictly the section is to be construed remains in some doubt . |
| 14 | In March 1991 , although Aquino confirmed that Imelda Marcos continued to be banned from the country , she suggested that she would be allowed to return at some point in order to face corruption charges . |
| 15 | At the end of the war OSS naturally expected it would be allowed to continue in some peacetime role but the FBI , which was jealous of the way OSS had taken over its role of supplying the president with foreign intelligence , pressured President Truman into terminating OSS 's activities , which he did in 1945 . |
| 16 | Also , the fresh tap water should be allowed to stand for some time before being offered to the cat , to allow the chemicals to dissipate . |
| 17 | In 303 a Christian named Copres from the Nile valley , engaged in a lawsuit over property , went to Alexandria to present his case and was disconcerted to discover that he would be required to participate in some act of idolatry , such as a sacrifice or an oath by the emperor 's genius , as a condition of litigation . |
| 18 | So whichever sort of practice you 're going into , you may at some point be required to advocate in some sort of court setting . |
| 19 | Even in the second set , where memories were specifically pressed , one third of the grandparents who were remembered had at some time lived in the same household . |
| 20 | And the assiduity with which Carolingian taxes like the fodrum or the pedagium were revived compensated in some measure . |
| 21 | The frequency with which it is enjoyed varies to some extent from person to person ; it varies still more with age and familiarisation . |
| 22 | It occurs after another consonant , and the way it is produced depends to some extent on the nature of that consonant . |
| 23 | Since bargaining situations are seldom exactly the same your strategy is bound to change to some extent . |
| 24 | In this definition , and throughout Parsons ' analysis , ‘ power ’ is identified with ‘ legitimate authority ’ , and this authority itself is assumed to arise from some kind of pervasive agreement upon the collective purposes of society as a whole . |
| 25 | It is an essential part of grieving that they be allowed to fall at some point , without restraint , if the healing process is to start . |
| 26 | If the muscularis propria escapes extensive damage , we assume that the impaired bowel propulsion is allowed to recover to some extent . |
| 27 | Where a lease creates a term of years which is expressed to run from some date earlier than that of the execution of the lease , the term created will be a term which begins on the date the lease is executed , and not the earlier date . |
| 28 | There we find similar bodily constructs built up as series of organizing principles , so that the other regiment or unit is perceived to operate in some kind of polluted time and space , and its aberrant nuances of uniform styling used as a marker of significant difference . |
| 29 | It merely states that the normal and primary justification of any authority has to establish that it is qualified to follow with some degree of success the principles which should govern the decisions of all authorities . |
| 30 | As he departed Baldersdale he was heard to announce with some emphasis that if his superiors were so anxious to catch the phantom poachers of Baldersdale , in future they could ( expletive deleted ) well do it themselves . |