Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [verb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local authorities should be given some money to get them out of the mess . |
| 2 | ‘ I propose therefore that Customs should be given some discretion to mitigate the penalties for some misdeclarations , to enable them to take account of the individual circumstances of the trader . ’ |
| 3 | The Plowden Report on Children and their Primary Schools ( 1967 ) recommended no change to section 76 , but said that parents should be given some choice whenever this was possible . |
| 4 | The person to be interviewed should be given some indication of the topic and possibly of the kinds of questions they might be asked but it is important that there should not be any rehearsal of the interview as they will then lose their spontaneity . |
| 5 | And that the district should be given some form of a guide that enables them to be er to apply the particular circumstances to their own district . |
| 6 | A , and so , to me , I think for what we 're paying we should be getting some service and we are not getting it ! |
| 7 | She should be getting some sleep , she told herself irritably , not lying here trying to erase the memory of a very disturbing kiss from her mind . |
| 8 | 16.39 ( i ) Pupils working towards level 6 should be reading some texts not written specifically for children or young people , eg short stories with a contemporary setting . |
| 9 | At the meeting Kohl yielded to Polish pressure in agreeing that the treaty should be signed some months earlier than he had anticipated . |
| 10 | Even if he had been gulped down by the City , Tunney should be making some difference , feeding in his own amendments . |
| 11 | Simon Draper , in particular , realised that as the Sex Pistols began to disintegrate it was Lydon who was ‘ the valuable commodity ’ , and that Virgin should be putting some effort into cultivating a relationship with him , with an eye to the future . |
| 12 | Hence he envisages that for every sphere of public- or private-sector activity there should be established some arena of potentially destabilising and broadly-based conflict over the use of that power . |
| 13 | It should be planted some distance away from other plants . |
| 14 | Electricity demand is likely to grow by between 2% and 2.3% for the remainder of the century and by the year 2000 nuclear energy should be contributing some 40% of demand . |
| 15 | Should be showing some signs of ease now . ’ |
| 16 | And this is a matter which must be given some weight in decision when you combine it with the other factors also which we have gone through today . |
| 17 | Instead she suggests that the content of the formal curriculum should be entirely overhauled : ‘ for girls to become a more powerful group , they must be given some understanding of females ' past powerlessness … in other subject areas , like English literature , social studies , art , biology and — where it is taught — psychology , there is a similar need to examine what girls are learning about women 's abilities and potential , and therefore what they should ( realistically ) expect for themselves ’ ( Hannon , 1979 , p. 115 ) . |
| 18 | Erm she must be getting some kind of |
| 19 | The best course must be to acquire some expertise in the procedures ; not only will this be useful in itself , but the knowledgeable haulier may find others in the business who are willing to pay for help on Customs 88 documentation . |
| 20 | Yet personal encounters , first as Cripps 's deputy in the Treasury and later as chancellor of the exchequer , persuaded Gaitskell that there were some people in Washington who appreciated that Britain must be granted some safeguards for her economy . |
| 21 | Clearly , the views of Palestinians with east Jerusalem must be represented some way or another . |
| 22 | Vehicles must be left some distance away from the netting site , and downwind too , so find yourself a convenient parking site during daylight for use after dark . |
| 23 | This is sometimes a reflection of the belief that if sample results show the discharge to be so much beyond the consent limits then the pollution must be having some effect on the stream . |
| 24 | Well you must be losing some weight then mother |
| 25 | The three A's must be making some contingency plans . |
| 26 | All those judges agreed on the abstract propositions that statutes make law and that precedent decisions must be allowed some influence over later decisions . |
| 27 | What these ‘ managerial ’ goals might be requires some elaboration . |
| 28 | Harper suddenly realized that he might be betraying some confidences . |
| 29 | Ellwood crouched down alongside the priest and looked this way and that , as if he might be given some notion of what to do next . |
| 30 | Finally , a ‘ psychiatric post-mortem ’ might be held some weeks later when staff feel less distressed . |