Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] [verb] [to-vb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | As an alternative to a good kicking , the gang may decide to have some fun once they have rushed you . |
| 2 | Although the European Parliament may get more power , its competence is still limited , so the German parliament must help to ensure some accountability over EC matters . |
| 3 | Nor is it possible to have a membrane with pores of just the right size to allow in needed substances from outside but not let essential substances escape , if only because the cell may need to retain some small molecules , and admit some larger ones . |
| 4 | Going in the other direction , say from English into Arabic , a translator should try to find some way of conveying the emphasis attached to a fronted predicator . |
| 5 | I am sure that Letterman would like to have some of Polanski 's assurance with young women , a knowingness which makes the Californian mania for self-presentation look quaint . |
| 6 | Oil industry officials said that Mexico would have to import some petrol products until a new 300,000 bpd plant was completed . |
| 7 | This chapter will attempt to analyse some of the possibilities for the teaching of information skills in the primary school curriculum . |
| 8 | This chapter will attempt to convey some of our experiences , as well as describing a structured group programme . |
| 9 | This chapter will attempt to determine some of the reasons for this state of affairs and then will go on to suggest ways in which teachers can overcome these problems . |
| 10 | ‘ As it is impossible to reduce police strength any further to offset the estimated cost of the two major investigations , the force will have to implement some or all of the measures mentioned . ’ |
| 11 | Electronics designers will need to follow some rules of thumb , many of which will be familiar , such as mains filtration , adopting a sensible grounding policy , minimising ground impedance , minimising cable lengths , screening cables which are carrying high frequency , large magnitude signals or which contain sensitive signals , and grouping cables to separate the sensitive from the interfering . |
| 12 | Here are four senses in which this is true and which do not apply to the atoms studied in physics or chemistry , even if biologists might want to use some concept of meaning when thinking about animals . |
| 13 | One of the properties of a context is a specification of what to do on a what-you-see save : the user might want to record some indication that the context was there . |
| 14 | There are many difficulties in getting supplies through to the zones and priority is given to medicines , not to contraceptives , Campesina combatants are generally opposed to using contraceptives for religious reasons and while women from urban areas may wish to adopt some form of birth control , it is not always available : |
| 15 | It was also recommended that the Committee should seek to make some of its existing activities profitable enough to employ a social development director from its own resources . |
| 16 | But I think it s very important top management should get to know some of the problems those people have too , because if they 're not doing it right , the company could be in trouble . |
| 17 | ARIES — A YEAR dominated by Uranus , Neptune , Saturn and Pluto can not be easy , and Arieans must expect to face some difficulties and setbacks somewhere along the line . |
| 18 | At the same time , however , Bauer and Renner initially took an optimistic view of the outcome of the rivalry between the two movements ; the multinational Habsburg Empire , they thought , might be transformed into a socialist federation of nations , in which the concept of a ‘ nation ’ would itself change and the principle of nationality would begin to lose some of its importance as a basis for the formation of states . |
| 19 | Perhaps health services researchers could begin to use some of the qualitative techniques available . |
| 20 | An investor who needs to hold a particular asset in his portfolio for trading purposes may wish to exchange some of its expected return for a reduced variance in its return . |
| 21 | For example , a sub-contractor on a building site may agree to do some work for the developer in return for a certain sum of money to be paid when the work is finished . |
| 22 | Some pupils of secondary school age who have special educational needs may continue to display some literacy skills within the lower levels associated with key stages 1 and 2 , so the teaching they receive in English will need to cater for this whilst incorporating material with a range and degree of interest , and in some cases intellectual demand , more appropriate to their chronological age . |
| 23 | L trials are usually more difficult to organize the teacher may have to plan some considerable way ahead before you can observe lessons where he has used the program several times before . |
| 24 | The results of this investigation should help to clarify some of the complex issues involved in the debate on gender and schooling . |
| 25 | This move should call to mind some remarks made in 2.4 about the causal theory of knowledge . |
| 26 | And this show was going to travel to the National Gallery of Canada , among other places , and then maybe Mr Chrysler might try to sell some of them . |
| 27 | On the other hand , could it also be argued that without this form of population control there might be an over-population of some wild species and that nature would have to find some other way of correcting it ? |
| 28 | Hayling explained further that if the GLC was going to support the venture , Walsh would have to get some newspaper professionals — or at least semi-professionals — involved , including , of course , Ben Lowe . |
| 29 | ‘ But if there is no readiness to come around … the international community will have to take some action and it will be tough action . ’ |
| 30 | Really , he says , people do n't notice V A T so much , others believe income tax will have to take some of the strain , but not by putting up the rates , that would be too blatant . |