Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [prep] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although centres generally have more control over what learning and assessment opportunities are offered , it may be preferable for some learning outcomes to be assessed in the workplace , if this opportunity exists ; eg. if a YT trainee carries out reception duties in the workplace it would be more realistic if the centre could arrange for the relevant module ( or learning outcomes ) to be assessed in the work environment . |
| 2 | This hour , before the heat began to build up , was the best time of day to be out of doors , and since her mistress would be asleep for some time yet she was free to go as she pleased . |
| 3 | I should be grateful for some clarification . |
| 4 | Again , computer models ( incorporating knowledge gained from previous dams ) can be used to some extent to predict the likely effects of future projects . |
| 5 | 7.1 You shall indemnify us against all loss , actions , costs , claims , demands , expenses and liabilities whatsoever ( if any ) which we may incur either at common law or by statute in respect of personal injury to or the death of any person or in respect of any loss or destruction of or damage to property ( other than as a result of any default or neglect of ourselves or of any person for whom we are responsible ) which shall have occurred in connection with any work executed by you against this Order or shall be alleged to be attributable to some defect in the goods . |
| 6 | Respondents are selected according to some sampling procedure to be representative of some group , collectivity , attribute or process . |
| 7 | No survey of the current state of church music would be complete without some consideration of the music of religious communities , with which plainsong is particularly associated . |
| 8 | No set of exercises likely to be used in the British Isles would be complete without some reference to the most talked of subject in the country . |
| 9 | A review of recent developments in social work , especially in the context of Conservative Party policy , would not be complete without some reference to the development of private practice . |
| 10 | The picture would not be complete without some idea of the mining costs of the time . |
| 11 | The potential for misinterpretation and imperfect communication in the interactions between workers and clients is enormous , and no analysis of the effects of social work intervention can be complete without some attention to the views of those on the receiving end . |
| 12 | A happy theatre a happy ship if you like a corny phrase to use is very very apparent and I 'm sure my colleagues and friends around here would appreciate because they do believe they ca n't get at the management committee and they would like to so please Tom will that be possible at some time in the near future ? |
| 13 | ( 3 ) A requirement under this section to provide a specimen of blood or urine can only be made at a police station or at a hospital ; and it can not be made at a police station unless — ( a ) the constable making the requirement has reasonable cause to believe that for medical reasons a specimen of breath can not be provided or should not be required , or ( b ) at the time the requirement is made a device or a reliable device of the type mentioned in subsection ( 1 ) ( a ) above is not available at the police station or it is then for any other reason not practicable to use such a device there , or ( c ) the suspected offence is one under section 4 of this Act and the constable making the requirement has been advised by a medical practitioner that the condition of the person required to provide the specimen might be due to some drug ; but may then be made notwithstanding that the person required to provide the specimen has already provided or been required to provide two specimens of breath . |
| 14 | It seems that public concern is mostly raised when the pollutant is easily observed and can be shown to be due to some organisation flouting the law . |
| 15 | Expected to be unfishable for some time . |
| 16 | Even so , if the sequence is to come off it will have to be stage-managed to some extent : children who are young enough to believe in Santa Claus are not old enough to carry the action on their own without the help of an adult to keep things moving . |
| 17 | And one tends to conclude that all attempts to be poetic in some manner or other defeat their own end ; whereas an intentness on the quality of the emotion to be conveyed makes for poetry . |
| 18 | Every action of a social worker must be justifiable under some section of an Act of Parliament . |
| 19 | If two uncontrolled groups prove to be different in some respect , we can only treat this as evidence of a causal relationship if we are convinced that they are not also different in some other important respect , as we shall |
| 20 | I realise that no series chosen to test this proposition can be free from some criticism or objection ; but this fact is less serious when no such series has , so far as I know , been constructed which fulfils the condition of a uniquely unfavourable pattern for murder . |
| 21 | On that occasion the member of parliament openly told the meeting of commissioners of supply that ‘ as he look't on the representing this shire to be hereditary in some measure in their family , soe he look't on the appointing the collector to be a consequentiall priviledge of it , and he would take ill any opposition given to him ’ . |
| 22 | If the decision is illegal it can be quashed ; otherwise the court can not ( with one exception ) intervene , even if it thinks the decision to be wrong in some respect . |
| 23 | It 's hard to see er er a situation in which the kind of young men that we routinely produce in this country er are not gon na be interested in some kind of group aggressive violent activities . |
| 24 | In practice , no items are completely reliable and , as a consequence , any test will be subject to some degree of internal reliability error . |
| 25 | Each information source will be subject to some degree of filtering and perceptual distortion by members of the buying organisation . |
| 26 | While any set of projections will be subject to some error for these sorts of reasons , the official household projections produced by the Department of Environment have provided a generally satisfactory framework for consideration of likely future trends in household composition . |
| 27 | Ours is the only Government who have as a priority in our negotiations in Brussels the provision that all subsidies should be subject to some form of environmental assessment . |
| 28 | For example , an enterprise may be subject to some form of political control from ministries or agencies responsible for finance , employment , defence and regional policy in addition to its principal ‘ sponsor ’ or ‘ tutelary ’ ministry ( see , e.g. , Feigenbaum 1985 : 87–92 ) . |
| 29 | If an exchange had a rule that required members to state that every contract was intended to go to physical delivery , notwithstanding the fact that since the rule was made the exchange had introduced a number of cash-settled contracts ; this would almost certainly be subject to some sort of variation . |
| 30 | A fee will be payable at some car parks . |