Example sentences of "[verb] be [adj] [verb] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , though the only currently practicable approach to identifying rural deprivation was an area based one and although it has been possible to make some sense of census data for rural areas , they still concluded , in line with Knox and Cottam , that it would be far better if the analysis could be performed at the individual level . |
| 2 | The CAB 's aims state that advice work and exercising a responsible influence on social policy are equal in importance , but it has been hard to persuade some advice workers that social policy work is an important part of their task as advisers . |
| 3 | Maybe if I 'd been able to do some kind of planche , like your painter friend did on your … back , it would have been easy , but what I had to do was first try to get something akin to an erection standing at the copier of a deserted office on a holiday . |
| 4 | Lots of men I know are prepared to take some time ensuring their children 's food is fresh and safe , once they understand the issues . ’ |
| 5 | Although it might have been possible to attempt some form of categorisation of the types of detail which were recalled at different risk levels , it is not clear that the data from this study are really powerful enough to support such an analysis . |
| 6 | One of the few occasions when she had been really cross with me had been when I suggested he might have been wiser to make some sort of provision for his wife and son . |
| 7 | In other words designers at DEC may have been able to make some process concessions to achieve a record clock rate that might not be appropriate for other architectures . |
| 8 | The shire and hundred meetings may have been able to exercise some kind of control over this , although a king who allowed himself and his servants too much leeway would have been difficult to oppose directly . |
| 9 | But however enjoyable , reading about islands is nowhere near as rewarding as visiting them , and I consider myself fortunate in having been able to spend some time on the north Atlantic islands of Iceland , the Faroe Islands and that most remote of the British islands , St Kilda . |
| 10 | ‘ But surely we ought to have been able to find some sort of compromise … ’ |
| 11 | Patrick had been able to do some thinking on the drive from Sandwich . |
| 12 | It was thus that I had been able to gain some sense of the sort of place Miss Kenton had gone to live her married life . |
| 13 | As early as the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. the Greek philosophers and historians had shown a keen interest in foreign doctrines and customs and had been inclined to recognize some value in them . |
| 14 | However , it has been good that , thanks to the work of Ronnie Martin and his helpers , we have been able to have some use of the building on Sundays for our expanding Learning Together programme . |
| 15 | In our discussion so far , we have been concerned to impose some sort of analytic structure on the lumpen mass of context . |
| 16 | Fears of what might happen in the East are one reason EC leaders have been willing to offer some help to those on the other side of the broken Berlin Wall . |