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

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1 While a large proportion of pupils manage to achieve multiple identities and to co-exist in a range of daily cultures , there are some pupils for whom such transitions are problematic , and for whom the inconsistencies in curriculum messages are too great .
2 Although defective colour perception does not usually have significant effect in many class activities , there are some careers for which absolute perception is needed ( armed forces , electrical trades ) .
3 There are some crimes for which women can not be convicted ( e.g. homosexuality , rape ) ; courts may deal more leniently with females , and a proportion of female crime may remain undetected because the police are less sensitive to it .
4 The scheme did not operate entirely as anticipated : the main departure was that there were some clients for whom the development officers provided no support , either because they were admitted immediately to institutional care ( and the development officers could not always influence this decision in the way they would have liked ) or because the clients did not need or want the services of the project .
5 Even then there were some books for which not even the critical number was enough , and nothing less than the whole text had to be sampled to determine its average readability .
6 ‘ Because , as it turns out , you 've developed the intelligence I expected of you , and I suppose there 's some excuse for what you were at nineteen .
7 The maths that you do ties up in some way with usually ties up with reality there 's some reason for it .
8 steps up and right footed he blasts it into the bottom corner , it subdues the Shrewsbury crowd somewhat , Blackburn fans are rampant because at last there 's some light for them but they 're still trailing Shrewsbury by three goals to two .
9 I I I sir that we we may be able to erm argue that here today it may be very difficult once it 's established , especially in the public mind that that that there is that there E two land I fear would be not only interpreted unless there 's some justification for me saying this because that 's what it says in the in the in the Harrogate Rural Areas Plan .
10 Okay now there 's some information for you to just er I really do need a pen and I do n't know where I 've left it .
11 It is an opinion shared by ninety per cent of the population and there is some support for its reality in the criticisms of Scripture .
12 The case against the IRA campaign is well known , so either its leaders are ready to capitulate or — far more likely — they think there is some advantage for them .
13 There is some corroboration for our conclusion in previous research , however : at the 1983 election Gunter , Svennevig and Wober ( 1986 , p. 119 ) found that ‘ whilst television clearly emerged from among various sources of information about politics as the major source , it seemed to be relatively less important in the decision-making process of which way to vote ’ .
14 When you were a child there was some excuse for you , but not now .
15 There was some evidence for it .
16 To her immense irritation she found herself babbling , as though there was some need for her to explain herself to him .
17 There was some reason for his bewilderment , for Anselm does not seem to have desired or expected any practical result from this consultation except a possible release from his archbishopric .
18 On the 18th Braid hit his 2nd shot into the road and he ‘ might have damaged the steam roller ’ so it is some comfort for us to know that the course 's own architect was penalised by his own design .
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