Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb mod] be [vb pp] some " in BNC.

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1 Local authorities should be given some money to get them out of the mess .
2 Given small numbers and simple ratios for which doubling and halving methods can be used some fairly high success rates were obtained as is suggested by the CSMS3 project results .
3 The Plowden Report on Children and their Primary Schools ( 1967 ) recommended no change to section 76 , but said that parents should be given some choice whenever this was possible .
4 ‘ I propose therefore that Customs should be given some discretion to mitigate the penalties for some misdeclarations , to enable them to take account of the individual circumstances of the trader . ’
5 These preliminary definitions of concepts may be given some more substance by considering the relations between them , and also their relations with the concept of economic class .
6 He said : ‘ I think the processors will be given some confidence as a result of the meeting but I think the fishermen will wish we had been able to do something dramatic .
7 It also saw frequent proposals that diplomats should be given some systematic training to fit them for the posts they were to occupy .
8 Memoirs and autobiographies may be written some considerable time after a key event , and usually enjoy the benefit of hindsight .
9 All those judges agreed on the abstract propositions that statutes make law and that precedent decisions must be allowed some influence over later decisions .
10 Vehicles must be left some distance away from the netting site , and downwind too , so find yourself a convenient parking site during daylight for use after dark .
11 All military and voluntary vehicles will be given some of London 's equipment , including special orthopaedic stretchers and chairs .
12 As far as possible , students will be given some choice of location .
13 Both direct and indirect jobs would be lost some twenty eight thousand in all if the yard were to close .
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