Example sentences of "[noun] [is] [to-vb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed a mill design developed during the 1950s was turned down by a local planning enquiry : one of the aims of the CEGB 's current wind programme is to gain some feedback on public attitudes to modern designs . |
| 2 | The purpose of this chapter is to give some hints on how to comment on tables such as might be found in government summary publications . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The object of the study is to provide some answers to such questions and to identify specific measures which might assist in the achievement of certain national goals , such as preventing further loss of broadleaved woods . |
| 5 | They send Christopher round to Ann 's to borrow some butter and a set of batteries for the cassette player . |
| 6 | The object of this rather clumsy piece of administration is to place some check on the expenditure of local money on the arts — and also to provide a further checkpoint on students who have already received educational grants for other careers . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Marginally , the most likely reaction is to offer some clarification or explanation . |
| 9 | ‘ Our job is to provide some activities so that people can then choose whether or not they want to be involved . |
| 10 | Bagshot , Surrey-based consultancy OutSource International Ltd is to establish and manage a network of UK resellers for Transputer-based massively parallel database systems builder White Cross Systems Ltd : the aim is to generate some £20m in revenues for White Cross over the next three years ; OutSource is recruiting UK resellers through its ChannelSource Europe arm , and they will target medium sized customers in the finance , retail and insurance sectors ; European White Cross channels in France , Germany , Italy and Switzerland are set to follow . |
| 11 | Bagshot , Surrey-based consultancy OutSource International Ltd is to establish and manage a network of UK resellers for Transputer-based massively parallel database systems builder White Cross Systems Ltd : the aim is to generate some £20m in revenues for White Cross over the next three years ; OutSource is recruiting UK resellers through its ChannelSource Europe arm , and they will target medium sized customers in the finance , retail and insurance sectors ; European White Cross channels in France , Germany , Italy and Switzerland are set to follow . |
| 12 | The project 's basic aim is to throw some light on the short-term forces making for change first on patterns of voting turnout and secondly on patterns of party choice , especially the vote for the governing party . |
| 13 | Another interesting move is to have some evening fixtures . |
| 14 | The big problem with this latter group is to find some sort of unifying factor that will make sense or give a theme to a miscellany of oddments that are less than distinguished . |
| 15 | The effect of such poisons is to cause some children to be born as monsters , and the people who venture too close to contaminated land sicken and die . ’ |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | That evening , just after six , he had delivered some parcels at the Post Office and then dropped into Oliver 's to purchase some cigarettes . |
| 18 | Clearly if AI is to have some role within avionics fault diagnostics it must provide systems with a wide range of capabilities . |
| 19 | Chafe ( 1976 : 51 ) suggests that the function of topic is to specify some kind of framework , for instance in terms of time , location , or individual reference , within which the main statement applies and that ‘ real ’ topics ( in topic-prominent languages ) are not so much ‘ what the sentence is about ’ as ‘ the frame within which the sentence holds ’ . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | She happened to have dropped in to Charles 's to leave some shopping on her way over here . |
| 22 | THE building materials group Ibstock Johnsen is to shut some manufacturing plants in a move which will cost a total of £28 million . |
| 23 | The object of this book is to offer some insight into the connections that have been made between statements about nature and statements about God . |
| 24 | The same problem may also arise where the demised property is to include some projection . |
| 25 | The way forward , if it 's the desire of the community to find more low cost houses for people to live in , in villages , I think the way is to give some incentive to farmers and landowners to give er or to make land available . |
| 26 | Another way of setting viewing tasks is to have some form of worksheet for the student to fill in during or after viewing . |
| 27 | The typical approach to this problem is to utilise some version of the DRG ( Diagnostic Related Group ) . |
| 28 | And er , one way to , to get people to stay on the land is to introduce some sort of , what we might call market disciplines , if that was n't such a dirty word , er , into the government , the government sector where there are clear inefficiencies . |
| 29 | In my mind , the object of doing an evaluation is to create some kind of improvement in the situation that is being evaluated . |
| 30 | I think this absolutely vital because in my mind the object of doing an evaluation is to create some kind of improvement in the situation that is being evaluated . |