Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] be [vb pp] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | A I think that the design considerations of your notice board should be given some careful thought . |
| 2 | The EC Commission 's own environment department may be allocated some of the $6.5 million which , to date , has been earmarked for the new agency . |
| 3 | The crêche may be located some distance away from where you will be working , and some have restrictions as to how far away you are allowed to be from your child in case you need to be contacted . |
| 4 | Given that safety for passengers must be paramount , you might like to consider if such a code of practice should be given some statutory status , or how else the good practice it describes might be disseminated and enforced . |
| 5 | Or you might be better sitting down and ordering yourself a drink : the waiter may be gone some time . |
| 6 | This is not simply a matter of becoming uncomfortably aware that the rapid increase of world population and accelerated industrialization pose a serious threat to the environment both by the massive consumption of finite material resources and by the emission of man-made heat and chemicals into the atmosphere ; a situation dramatically portrayed in a report by the Club of Rome ( Meadows et al. , 1972 ) , subsequently much criticized but now taken more seriously again , which concluded that : ‘ If the present growth trends in world population , industrialization , pollution , food production , and resource depletion continue unchanged , the limits to growth on this planet will be reached some time within the next one hundred years . ’ |
| 7 | And that the district should be given some form of a guide that enables them to be er to apply the particular circumstances to their own district . |
| 8 | At the meeting Kohl yielded to Polish pressure in agreeing that the treaty should be signed some months earlier than he had anticipated . |
| 9 | The second principle explains how and why the past must be allowed some special power of its own in court , contrary to the pragmatist 's claim that it must not . |
| 10 | Under this heading will be found some motels and motor hotels , with bedroom facilities mainly on a self-service basis . |
| 11 | Against these traditional and widespread justifications for adverse possession may be compared some modern views against squatters . |
| 12 | The public should be spared some of the more bureaucratic checks and delays at ports and airports that will occur , for example , at Dover and elsewhere , when there are too many uniformed officials stopping people unnecessarily . |
| 13 | For example , rubber may be extended some three or four hundred per cent . |
| 14 | But against this destruction must be set some solid achievements , including the Press Unit 's making as much as censorship would allow in a morale-boosting report . |