Example sentences of "to be [vb pp] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is very different , and as you can see has to be based on some knowledge or understanding . |
| 2 | Some , however , were concerned about the nature of the play activities , almost all of which were seen to be based on some kind of violence . |
| 3 | A problem arises here : the company policies and procedures need to be based on some knowledge of employees ' willingness to move but asking the employees whether they are willing to relocate will not provide constructive answers unless those concerned can have answers to their questions based on hard facts — which are usually given in written policy statements . |
| 4 | In the old days , with casein , it used to be said of some of the aircraft in the tropics that they were held together by the assembly brads . |
| 5 | To be recognized for some achievement in life lifted Dad immensely ; before Eva he had begun to see himself as a failure and his life as a dismal thing . |
| 6 | She wrote a memorial to his brother George , now Prince Regent , Nelson 's friend , reminding him of the codicil which the national hero had made to his will leaving her and Horatia to the nation , and asking for it to be recognized in some tangible form . |
| 7 | He suggests that the perception of objectivity to be observed in some areas of English culture may stem from the ‘ real ’ objectivity provided by writing : ‘ The intrinsically greater objectivity of written language ( or , alternatively , the intrinsically lesser subjectivity ) could ’ , he argues , ‘ have encouraged the development of an institutionalised greater respect for written evidence ’ ( 1982 ) . |
| 8 | His heart sank , perversely convinced that he was to be transferred to some damp hole where he would be able neither to stand upright nor lie at full length , and chained there in darkness . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , in so far as it addressed the complex issue of home-school relationships in multi-ethnic contexts , it was an important initiative which deserves to be extended in some form . |
| 10 | Socata 's parent company Aerospatiale is responsible for the cockpit architecture of the Airbus line , and there have clearly been transfers of technology between Toulouse and Tarbes , the result being that the TBM 700 needs to be flown like some kind of ! 320 . |
| 11 | ‘ Perhaps it is to be applied to some kind of child 's toy — a gunpowder-propelled kite ! ’ |
| 12 | These perspectives on the urban problem — many of which have emerged from neo-Marxist debate — need to be treated with some caution . |
| 13 | These results have to be treated with some caution because of the small numbers of subjects involved ( though most studies have this limitation ) and the weaker effects for conditions ( 3 ) and ( 4 ) . |
| 14 | Some of these may not be changes for the better and deserve to be treated with some suspicion : the tendency to de-humanise the author-function ; the license offered to slipshod architects of style to pinch and pastiche without mercy and the insinuation of academic jargon into criticism and production . |
| 15 | Arguments about competition in the printing trade have to be treated with some caution . |
| 16 | The information has to be treated with some caution . |
| 17 | The official government figures need to be treated with some caution . |
| 18 | The straight lines on the charts may be over-simplified , therefore , and would need to be treated with some caution . |
| 19 | Break-even charts are relatively simple to produce , but this simplicity itself may lead to an over-simplified statement of a situation , and needs to be treated with some caution . |
| 20 | Bremner and Jimmy Johnstone made Willie Ormond 's period as Scotland manager into a nightmare of infuriating incidents and in the '60s , the city of Turin was to be treated to some memorable scandals when Denis Law and Joe Baker both signed for the Italian League side Torino . |
| 21 | Obviously there are certain key factors to any sort of reasonable living space : walls and ceiling will have to be decorated along with all the woodwork ; windows and floors have to be treated in some way ; there must be light both to see by and to enhance the space ; there should be something to sit on and probably to eat from and almost certainly somewhere to work at times . |
| 22 | A The fungus that affects fish is present in all ponds , but often it requires the skin of the fish to be damaged in some way to allow the fungus to grow on the body of the fish . |
| 23 | While doing this the men are supposed to be separated by some distance in order to be able to call for radio assistance and to allow fire to be returned should one of them be attacked , and for the constable whose patch it is to become solely identified as the area 's neighbourhood policeman . |
| 24 | If changes in detected crime levels need to be monitored with some scepticism , the real rate of crime is also problematic because of unrecorded crime . |
| 25 | Yet talk to any established composer nowadays , and the likelihood is that he or she is about to be embroiled in some kind of operatic project , perhaps planned for the middle-distant future ( timescales are necessarily generous for opera ) but nevertheless fully engaged in the kind of musical thinking that three decades ago would have beyond the wildest dreams for all but the most exclusive , established few — Benjamin Britten and Tippett in Britain , Hans Werner Henze on the Continent . |
| 26 | ‘ Then Love Begins ’ only lives to be heard on some Midwestern FM easy listening station — which you may find funny or sad in itself . |
| 27 | ‘ Then Love Begins ’ only lives to be heard on some Midwestern FM easy listening station — which you may find funny or sad in itself . |
| 28 | And then , loudly enough to be heard from some of the nearer tables , she said , ‘ Wait a minute . ’ |
| 29 | But it 's unlikely to be heard until some time next year . |
| 30 | It goes without saying that once the primary structure has failed there must be provision for the failure to be detected by some means before the redundant structure itself is weakened by continuous flight loads . |