Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [be] [verb] [verb] some " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 In this chapter an attempt has been made to explore some evidence about teachers , teaching and teachers ' work .
2 Within the space available , an attempt has been made to describe some of the techniques available for obtaining and utilizing chromosome preparations from different stages of embryogenesis .
3 in this article an attempt has been made to extract some guiding principles which underline good goldfish keeping .
4 A brief test at the end of this chapter has been designed to give some idea of how much of a ‘ lark ’ or ‘ owl ’ you are .
5 BLUE Velvet have been forced to cancel some of their gigs because of a lack of new material .
6 Pupils received a pat on the back for satisfactory learning and community work but heads have been told to review some management and teaching methods .
7 Orrell have been invited to join some of rugby 's elite and take part in the Dubai Sevens on November 19 and 20 .
8 Study at such world levels can now be achieved first because enough process data have been collected to allow some degree of national and world pattern to be discerned ; secondly because international cooperation has been initiated specifically to remedy the past deficiencies of data coverage ; and thirdly because the opportunities of remote sensing are now beginning to provide further clues to the world picture .
9 The club have been invited to join some of rugby 's elite in the Dubai Sevens to be held on November 19 and 20 when they will face one of the toughest rugby sevens line-ups ever assembled .
10 This leaflet has been designed to provide some basic information .
11 Miller had been forced to transplant some of these just as they were coming into flower , but by cutting off all the buds , placing them in a wet trench and watering continuously until they became established , he was able , in August and September to pick flowers ‘ as fair as those produced in June ’ .
12 Lancashire 's Pakistani pace bowler Wasim Akram , for example had been found to generate some 15 to 20 mph from his wrist action alone .
13 WWF has greatly expanded its conservation work , and in response to requests from supporters , a series of leaflets has been published outlining some of the main issues .
14 The SOC government had been set to release some 400 political detainees and POWs on Jan. 3 but the move had been cancelled after Fresard denounced it as " a pure propaganda piece " .
15 What information has been gathered contains some subtle but ominous signs .
16 The demarcation itself can be finally ratified by the president after the land has been physically staked out , a large and time-consuming task for which the Brazilian congress has been asked to provide some 42 million .
17 Also , apparently , Matron had been overheard making some indelicate comment to one of the cleaners about the state of Harding 's sheets .
18 Other , ‘ professional ’ drugs have been designed to overcome some of these problems , but they have often been designed to have even more worrying characteristics .
19 Several reasons have been proposed to explain some of this discrepancy .
20 Understanding of the disorder has progressed in all these directions , and several attempts have been made to combine some of these ideas in an integrative model ( e.g. Akiskal , 1979 ; Gilbert , 1984 ) .
21 Christian deputies have been trying to obtain some form of timetable for a Syrian military withdrawal before accepting political reforms , but at their fifth meeting yesterday , the 62 MPs — half of them Christians — were persuaded to debate the future powers of a Christian Maronite president .
22 By the spring of 1940 the War Office had been persuaded to put some of these ideas into practice and a number of companies were raised to act independently in guerrilla roles .
23 They keep a low profile here , but this person and her colleagues have been chosen to perform some of the most important jobs on the station , though they 're never seen .
  Next page