Example sentences of "[is] [vb pp] [verb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To what extent this is the case is a matter for debate ; however , the fact that trade with the developing nations is intended to play some part is indicated by the Guidelines for the Economic and Social Development of the USSR for 1981–5 and for the Period Ending in 1990 adopted at the 26th CPSU Congress in 1981 , which envisage ‘ [ the development ] , on a long-term and equitable basis , [ of a ] mutually beneficial exchange of goods … with developing countries ’ ( in Koshelev : 1982 , pp. 8–9 ) . |
| 2 | In this sense they also help to pin-point gaps in experience or competence , when a child is considered to have some areas of developmental concern … |
| 3 | Generally speaking , this is deemed to provide some clue as to one 's destiny . |
| 4 | Promix is now the main product offering from Ross and is expected to generate some £15m sales in the UK this year , as opposed to £8m last year . |
| 5 | Advanced Micro Devices Inc is expected to be able to produce up to 600,000 Am486 chips this year , and it could produce some 4m — where Intel Corp is expected to produce some 26m 80486 chips this year and another 31m of the things in 1994 . |
| 6 | PROPERTY to be made available for a would-be council tenant is expected to raise some interest and a few eyebrows . |
| 7 | For the first time , every pupil at Key Stage 1 is expected to cover some history ( see Box 1 ) . |
| 8 | This pilot study is designed to throw some light on these important questions . |
| 9 | The more elaborate chamber illustrated in Fig. 4.4 , which can be constructed quite cheaply , is designed to overcome some problems in simpler chambers , where either the resin is drawn into the chamber after the sample is outgassed , or the sample is placed in the resin and both are evacuated together ( as in Section 8.5.5 ) . |
| 10 | Section 677(5) is designed to afford some measure of relief where the amounts repaid are lent by the settlor to the trustees of the settlement so that there is a re-advance by the settlor . |
| 11 | Coal consumption in Europe is forecast to increase some 38% by the end of the century and the increased demand will be met by imports rather than indigenous production . |
| 12 | Transmission across the callosum takes time and necessitates crossing at least one synaptic junction , during which the information is said to undergo some degree of transformation such that it arrives at the second hemisphere in a comparatively degraded state ( McKeever and Huling , 1971a ; Gross , 1972 ; Gibson , Dimond and Gazzaniga , 1972 ) . |
| 13 | The CPU is said to have some support for out-of-order execution of instructions , which requires very tricky circuitry to reassemble the stream in the right order and avoid dependency conflicts . |
| 14 | These corporations are non-elected and , although an attempt is made to ensure some representation of different interests at board levels , their tasks are clearly defined in advance in terms of development and infrastructure . |
| 15 | Looking at the way the international bodies like IEEE and X/Open Co Ltd have failed to define even a basic set of standards due to the competitive nature of the marketplace , AFUU believes an international body of GUI users is what is needed to get some momentum going , a global organisation that can represent user requirements to the GUI providers . |
| 16 | If a manager is told to increase some measure of productivity , the manager will tend to distort things in just that direction . |
| 17 | However , some condoms are lubricated with the spermicide Nonoxynol 9 which is thought to offer some protection against HIV , but may irritate the inside of the vagina or anus . |
| 18 | When an expert system is used to produce some advice or a report , the expertise underlying the output comes from the following sources : the experts who provided the knowledge , the persons ( sometimes called " knowledge engineers " ) who refined the knowledge and formalized it so that it could be installed in the knowledge-base , the persons who wrote the inference engine and the user interface ( or adapted existing ones ) , the user of the system . |
| 19 | A deeper mixture of ultramarine blue with a little white added is used to trace some lines of paint across the foreground of the water and add richness of colour and suggest distance between the near and far water areas . |
| 20 | During his working years he has considerable leisure which is bound to have some interactions with work . |
| 21 | Any attempt to actually draw the circle is bound to have some kind of imperfection , such as the irregularities if a bit mapped device , or servo non-linearities in an X-Y plotter . |
| 22 | The emphasis here is on education and recreation , so it is bound to make some people ask whether or not it is too soft for criminals . |
| 23 | The emphasis here is on education and recreation , so it is bound to make some people ask whether or not it is too soft for criminals . |
| 24 | This in turn is bound to discourage some prosecutions from being brought . |
| 25 | Any requirement that may be construed as ‘ compulsory ’ is bound to evoke some rebelliousness . |
| 26 | Anyone contributing a single lecture to a series like this — covering a wide spectrum of disciplines and addressed to a general audience — is bound to feel some anxiety and uncertainty about how their contribution will fit into its larger context . |
| 27 | That is bound to get some stick ! |
| 28 | This is especially the case when the action that is proposed requires some change from the usual flow of action . |
| 29 | By examining these areas in respect to both the declining sections of Scottish cotton and , conversely , the expanding area of cotton thread manufacture , it is hoped to draw some conclusions about the role played by industrial relations in the process of decline and renewal in industry . |
| 30 | Revision courses are also offered for students studying privately for the Institute of Housing qualification and it is hoped to provide some help to tenants ' groups in the area . |