Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] some " in BNC.

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1 What I have been concerned about in this short section has been to compare some simple forms of growth equations deriving from quite different traditions .
2 They are to replace some of the narrow Wilton Looms , including the one on which the Holyrood Carpet was woven .
3 Subsidiary aims of the research are to explore some of the statistical problems arising form the survey 's complex design , and to contribute to research training in the analysis of trend data .
4 An official government report published in July 1991 has concluded that we need to make substantial changes to the typical British diet if we are to reduce some of the major health concerns such as heart disease .
5 The best course must be to acquire some expertise in the procedures ; not only will this be useful in itself , but the knowledgeable haulier may find others in the business who are willing to pay for help on Customs 88 documentation .
6 One effect of this legislation will be to stimulate some degree of intensification .
7 More often it will be to establish some intermediate way point in the development path of a system ; in order to carry out a review , for example , or to provide a frozen issue for prototype system testing .
8 To do so without taking into account whether , within the former group , the mother remarried or not , or whether or not uncles , grandfathers or older brothers were able to step into the gap and provide the child with male company , would be to neglect some possible important influences .
9 The main priority will always be to find some route to additional funding for books .
10 He once reproached Sir Philip Sidney for his famous refusal of a cup of water on a Dutch battlefield as an act that looks ‘ aggressively holy ’ , and it is hard to imagine any other critic of the age allowing himself such a remark , or even conceiving of it : The okay thing would be to drink some of the cup himself and pass it on , leaving most of it to the other man … ’
11 Thus , ‘ It would seem then that the clue to finding real partitioning amongst goods must be to trace some underlying partitioning in society ’ ( 1980 : 907 ) .
12 Of course , the sensible thing would be to put some decent amounts of money into the poorer bits of Los Angeles , and cities similarly afflicted , but that 's the kind of language most white politicians are programmed to avoid .
13 Maybe the solution would be to put some of that in living assurance , and some of it in Covermaster .
14 The other approach would be to do some lateral thinking and use the effluent stream containing the caustic to neutralise an acidic effluent stream from another part of the plant .
15 One way of using the seaweed would be to use some very fine towelling as the background to give a beachy feel to the picture , and incorporate some minute shells , as the material would absorb their shape , thus allowing the glass to lie flat against the plant material .
16 In any event one of its major functions will be to ensure some form of trans-binary rationalisation of higher education by close liaison with the UGC and , to that effect , it is important that NAB should have included in its membership an observer from the UGC and that Christopher Ball should have been accorded similar status on the UGC .
17 One obvious way of increasing bankers ' deposits in relation to other assets would be to recall some of the overnight lending to the London discount market .
18 She told us that the best thing for him would be to have some traction sessions three times a week at Wrexham Hospital .
19 One way of indicating this intention would be to take some action contrary to the object and purpose of the treaty , but such signalling action could be deemed a breach of Article 18 .
20 One possibility , which has scarcely been explored , would be to take some large sample of the world 's languages and ask what basic pragmatic distinctions are needed to describe their grammatical structures .
21 The beginning of a strategy for change would be to examine some key stereotypes of disability within that history of misrepresentation which are present today and which need to be challenged .
22 The effect of female choice and male competition will be to make some males even more successful than if those factors were not operating .
23 Thus one of the main considerations of the research will be to make some contribution to the task of developing a more sophisticated literary sociology .
24 Another method would be to make some of the 10 new forests planned for " de-commissioned " English farmland into reserves for the red squirrel .
25 I do not claim to be comprehensive in what follows , rather my aim has been to assess some of the main features of kin support in the past which have particular relevance to the central theme of this book — how important are duty , obligation and responsibility in motivating the support which people give to their relatives ?
26 Here we are to have some fun .
27 The purpose of this paper has been to review some of the legal issues that organisations need to address when operating in an electronic documentation environment .
28 Thus it is important for the computer experts to adapt if they are to maintain some grasp , albeit a tenuous one , on the computers in their organisations .
29 However , the cost of achieving this has been to remove some of the advantages of forward contracts as well .
30 There is no doubt that the effect of GATT over most of the postwar years has been to remove some of the protection afforded to national markets .
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