Example sentences of "to [be] [vb pp] [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It is very different , and as you can see has to be based on some knowledge or understanding . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ Perhaps it is to be applied to some kind of child 's toy — a gunpowder-propelled kite ! ’ |
| 9 | These perspectives on the urban problem — many of which have emerged from neo-Marxist debate — need to be treated with some caution . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | Arguments about competition in the printing trade have to be treated with some caution . |
| 12 | The information has to be treated with some caution . |
| 13 | The official government figures need to be treated with some caution . |
| 14 | The straight lines on the charts may be over-simplified , therefore , and would need to be treated with some caution . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | But it 's unlikely to be heard until some time next year . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The 790s are one of the best documented decades in Anglo-Saxon history and this enables the years of crisis which followed the establishment of Offa 's dominant position to be comprehended in some detail . |
| 25 | This wonderfully rich and moist fruit cake may be a little strong for many young children 's tastes , but it is a lovely alternative for an older child , for a special occasion such as Christmas , or when the cake needs to be kept for some time . |
| 26 | It is particularly important for covering fruit cakes and cakes with an uneven surface , as it provides a smooth area for the icing and prevents discoloration of the icing by the cake if it is going to be kept for some time . |
| 27 | More and more trainees will present themselves at centres with widely varying degrees of knowledge , skills and attitudes in different areas and will ask for these to be recognised in some way or other . |
| 28 | It needs to be studied with some form of magnification to be able to appreciate its full beauty . |
| 29 | Light the paraffin stove now , he thought , crouching uncertainly with a box of matches , wondering if it ought to be propitiated in some way . |
| 30 | So the situations which are to stimulate the use of the language being learned will have to be contrived in some way , and the learners will have to co-operate in maintaining the illusion of reality . |