Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The best course must be to acquire some expertise in the procedures ; not only will this be useful in itself , but the knowledgeable haulier may find others in the business who are willing to pay for help on Customs 88 documentation . |
| 2 | One effect of this legislation will be to stimulate some degree of intensification . |
| 3 | The main priority will always be to find some route to additional funding for books . |
| 4 | In any event one of its major functions will be to ensure some form of trans-binary rationalisation of higher education by close liaison with the UGC and , to that effect , it is important that NAB should have included in its membership an observer from the UGC and that Christopher Ball should have been accorded similar status on the UGC . |
| 5 | She told us that the best thing for him would be to have some traction sessions three times a week at Wrexham Hospital . |
| 6 | One way of indicating this intention would be to take some action contrary to the object and purpose of the treaty , but such signalling action could be deemed a breach of Article 18 . |
| 7 | Thus one of the main considerations of the research will be to make some contribution to the task of developing a more sophisticated literary sociology . |
| 8 | Here we are to have some fun . |
| 9 | Thus it is important for the computer experts to adapt if they are to maintain some grasp , albeit a tenuous one , on the computers in their organisations . |
| 10 | The objectives were to obtain some feeling for this environment , and also to compare the readings at various angles of view . |
| 11 | Now , perhaps if Mrs Crumwallis were to put some iodine on … ’ |
| 12 | If , however , you do not know who this person is , or might be , it would be more helpful if we were to give some indication of why we have introduced her into the conversation . |
| 13 | " We began with history , and covered the early years of Queen Elizabeth , and we were to have some music practice , but I persuaded Miss Powers to leave that until later this afternoon , lest it disturb you . " |
| 14 | With all the cat rods out we returned to the carp rods and decided to start fishing with sweetcorn and luncheon meat all on straight running leger rigs , the idea being to get some indication of any activity early on . |
| 15 | Looking back , we may say that the years around 1300 were to attain some significance in this domain . |
| 16 | The extent of Michael 's ‘ multi-media ’ experience has been to take some Polaroid shots of drawings of his dog . |
| 17 | Lord Wittisham and Miss Fenwick had been to collect some food — the quails I believe — and were passing in a donkey cart as Sir Thomas arrived . |
| 18 | They send Christopher round to Ann 's to borrow some butter and a set of batteries for the cassette player . |
| 19 | The same problem may also arise where the demised property is to include some projection . |
| 20 | So what I really want to do this month , well what I really want to do this month , is to lose some weight . |
| 21 | The purpose of this chapter is to provide some part of the conceptual clarification and social and historical background that is essential to an analysis of the nature of ‘ race ’ as an element in British education and society . |
| 22 | The review here can not claim to have gone into any great depth , but its purpose is correspondingly modest , and that is to provide some support to this generalisation . |
| 23 | Likewise , Le Gai Savoir , made in 1968 , was a gloss on Rousseau 's Emile ou l'éducation and propounded that ‘ the central problem of education is to provide some understanding of the sounds and images that bombard us in our everyday lives ’ ( MacCabe 1980 , p. 20 ) . |
| 24 | My experience in Texas and with other large contemporary prison systems leads me to wonder whether in future the best we can hope for is to obtain some kind of a mix of the two , and avoid the worse features of each . |
| 25 | What we really need to do is to find some land to play on . |
| 26 | The editing problem is that this particular group of shots ends with the boat 's abrupt departure — we go suddenly from shots of the men at work to one in which the boat is already in motion : in effect , we have a jump-cut , and your task as editor is to find some way of bridging the gap in the action . |
| 27 | The solution is to find some way of compressing the data . |
| 28 | My next task is to find some printing As you can see printing ink is delivered both in tins and if we have any left there may be somewhere , in tubes . |
| 29 | In a less constrained system , such as HWIM or Hearsay-II , the task is to find some method of reflecting the ‘ goodness ’ of a path , according to the various knowledge sources which contribute to it . |
| 30 | I think he feels that the most difficult thing in a man 's life is to find some sort of balance between longing for company and longing for isolation . |