Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The maker hand-cuts the kerfing ( the triangular-section strip around the inside edge that increases the gluing area of the sides for securing the front and back ) so that the saw-cuts are widely spaced in some areas and closely spaced around the tight curves of the cutaway . |
| 2 | Now you ca n't possibly test a medicine on ten thousand people before you start to sell it , so that sort of risk , as rare a risk as that , will only be picked up when the medicine has actually been in use and on the market and been properly prescribed for some years , and what we are doing now , and what is particularly interesting , is to start to use computers to pick up these adverse reactions so that we know much more quickly in future if a medicine is doing any harm and we can either stop prescribing it for the people who are going to suffer from it , and that 's the most likely thing , or else take it off the market altogether if it 's if we do n't if we ca n't pick out the people who might be at risk . |
| 3 | No single measure of public expenditure has met with universal agreement , and even when one has been widely used for some time , it can be subject to change for a variety of reasons . |
| 4 | Aden was at that time an RAF command , in which the operational policy of air control had been successfully applied for some years . |
| 5 | They 'd obviously been badly infected at some time . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , a radical editorial reorganization called the Bradshaw shift , involving the moving of fragment VII as one large block back to the end of fragment II , with these fragments then relabelled groups B2 and B1 respectively , has been eagerly accepted by some editors and critics since the nineteenth century , wishing to solve thereby certain anomalies in the ordering of named places that the pilgrims would pass on their road to Canterbury . |
| 7 | The report , undertaken by independent scientists at the request of the International Atomic Energy Agency and other UN bodies , has been fiercely criticized by some environmentalists and also by officials in the Ukraine and Belorussia — the regions worst affected by the accident . |
| 8 | In parts of Britain , particularly in parts of Wales , second home ownership has been fiercely contested by some locals , but it is hard to judge whether such opposition is justified . |
| 9 | A crucial assumption of the kinds of statistical calculations we have been referring to is that the sample has been randomly drawn from some population . |
| 10 | Descriptors are normally accompanied by some display of relationships between them and other words in the indexing language . |
| 11 | The numbers in each year are progressively multiplied by some survival ratio to forecast the number going on to the next year , with ancillary information added in as appropriate . |
| 12 | We might hold that our beliefs about our sensory states are always justified to some degree just because of their subject matter ( non-inferentially , therefore ) , whereas most other beliefs are justified inferentially if at all ; one could suppose this in an attempt to make sense of the empiricist idea that our beliefs about our present experience have a stability which other beliefs lack , in virtue of which they are able to justify those other beliefs and thus meet the empiricist demand ( vaguely expressed here ) that all our knowledge be grounded in our experience . |
| 13 | Steady-state forecasts are always based on some assumptions about social system behaviour . |
| 14 | Increases in the volume of shipping are usually accommodated for some time by existing docks and harbours before the pressure on them leads to a heavy capital investment in fresh and usually lengthy building . |
| 15 | Intensional descriptions are usually invented by some sort of generalizing method . |
| 16 | House to House and Flag Day collections will continue throughout the year in Scotland , and helpers are still needed in some areas . |
| 17 | Weaver birds reared in an incubator still manage to weave when they become adult , so clearly the basic skill is inherited , but it nonetheless requires practice to bring it to perfection and at first young male weavers may make comically ham-fisted versions — nests that are insecurely tied and fall off , others that are unevenly woven with some strips pulled tight and others left slack so that the result is misshapen . |
| 18 | Dietary habits are also influenced to some degree by social class ; for example , those from a working class background tend to eat less fruit and vegetables than others . |
| 19 | They are also viewed by some observers as hostages for the future , parties in office being perceived as often doing the reverse of what was promised in their manifestos . |
| 20 | However , there is more to it than that : the issue also involves a conflict between Shetlanders ' ‘ traditional ’ attitudes to land and attitudes characteristic of non-Shetlanders , attitudes which are also shared by some Shetlanders ( especially some of the young ) . |
| 21 | Experts are also used in some forms of Alternative Dispute Resolution , or ADR . |
| 22 | Library of Congress class numbers are also attached to some headings . |
| 23 | According to Wells , the data from his research contradicts crude generalizations that are often made about some children as being ‘ deprived at home ’ of those language experiences that will prepare them for schooling , and assumptions that the school is a ‘ rich language environment ’ . |
| 24 | The complaints are often accompanied by some sort of digestive upset ( like in Pulsatilla ) . |
| 25 | Ninety-eight ( 18 per cent ) said they had been sexually abused at some time , including 82 girls — the victims of rape , incest , sexual assault or prostitution . |
| 26 | Eighteen per cent of these young people had been sexually abused at some time and 4 per cent of the females cited this as the main reason for running ( Newman , forthcoming ) . |
| 27 | Because of this , the tobacco industry has been legally obliged for some years now to print health warnings on packets . |
| 28 | Initially then , the Bank of England would still be responsible for carrying out UK monetary policy , but would be slowly overtaken to some extent by the EMF 's control of ECU interest rates and control of the supply of ECUs . |
| 29 | As Gavyn Davies , who may be better known to some Opposition Members than he is to us , has said , the interesting thing is at how high a proportion of GDP investment has settled , notwithstanding the recession . |
| 30 | Adapting this potential so that the plants can be easily integrated with some sort of collection system will depend on advances in the techniques of genetic engineering . |