Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] [to-vb] some " 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 | Thus , ‘ It would seem then that the clue to finding real partitioning amongst goods must be to trace some underlying partitioning in society ’ ( 1980 : 907 ) . |
| 3 | The beginning of a strategy for change would be to examine some key stereotypes of disability within that history of misrepresentation which are present today and which need to be challenged . |
| 4 | The other approach would be to do some lateral thinking and use the effluent stream containing the caustic to neutralise an acidic effluent stream from another part of the plant . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | One possibility , which has scarcely been explored , would be to take some large sample of the world 's languages and ask what basic pragmatic distinctions are needed to describe their grammatical structures . |
| 7 | One way of using the seaweed would be to use some very fine towelling as the background to give a beachy feel to the picture , and incorporate some minute shells , as the material would absorb their shape , thus allowing the glass to lie flat against the plant material . |
| 8 | He once reproached Sir Philip Sidney for his famous refusal of a cup of water on a Dutch battlefield as an act that looks ‘ aggressively holy ’ , and it is hard to imagine any other critic of the age allowing himself such a remark , or even conceiving of it : The okay thing would be to drink some of the cup himself and pass it on , leaving most of it to the other man … ’ |
| 9 | Of course , the sensible thing would be to put some decent amounts of money into the poorer bits of Los Angeles , and cities similarly afflicted , but that 's the kind of language most white politicians are programmed to avoid . |
| 10 | Maybe the solution would be to put some of that in living assurance , and some of it in Covermaster . |
| 11 | One obvious way of increasing bankers ' deposits in relation to other assets would be to recall some of the overnight lending to the London discount market . |
| 12 | To do so without taking into account whether , within the former group , the mother remarried or not , or whether or not uncles , grandfathers or older brothers were able to step into the gap and provide the child with male company , would be to neglect some possible important influences . |
| 13 | Another method would be to make some of the 10 new forests planned for " de-commissioned " English farmland into reserves for the red squirrel . |
| 14 | She told us that the best thing for him would be to have some traction sessions three times a week at Wrexham Hospital . |
| 15 | One effect of this legislation will be to stimulate some degree of intensification . |
| 16 | More often it will be to establish some intermediate way point in the development path of a system ; in order to carry out a review , for example , or to provide a frozen issue for prototype system testing . |
| 17 | The effect of female choice and male competition will be to make some males even more successful than if those factors were not operating . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |