Example sentences of "that some [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 He says that some mines are picked up by children , they explode when the children play with them , causing terrible injuries .
2 Nor was it generally known that some newspapers had declined to accept such advertising on ethical grounds .
3 They have to keep a logbook but that 's only a check to make sure that nobody 's leaving a mess in the common areas and we only have it because we 've found that some residents can have problems because they 've become deskilled in certain things .
4 Note that some residents may be too frail to co-operate with this moving technique .
5 James said that some copies will be at this week 's Which Computer Show in Birmingham .
6 They therefore allow that some phenomena may be elucidated in individualist terms , while at the same time claiming a major place for holist explanations .
7 It 's a good idea to have some spare olives — note that the design varies slightly from one brand to another and that some olives can be fitted only one way round .
8 But people who have rigged up a television in their bedroom or kitchen , to watch the much-advertised breakfast TV shows are finding that some programmes that are quietly transmitted on BBC2 every morning at the same time are often far more interesting .
9 Latest word from the grapevine is that IBM Corp 's 3390-9 disk drive may be put back to June 1 or June 8 ( CI No 2,165 ) , and there is a certain lack of confidence that the thing will be an easy sell given that it is significantly slower than the lower capacity drives , making it unsuitable for most leading edge mainframe applications ( CI No 2,165 ) : the conspiracy theorists conjecture that it is not a product that the sales force and the market actually want , one that could have been developed simply to respond to something a competitor was planning but in the end never launched , but that it has cost sufficient to develop that to write off the effort now would leave a nasty hole in AdStar Inc 's balance sheet — much better to put the thing out in the confidence that some users will bite , and write the work off over perhaps a five-year product life .
10 Again , however , one wonders how far this was mere rhetoric in the original or mere gesture in the repetition ; although it may have some influence on the ‘ mission statements ’ that some institutions are now struggling to formulate .
11 Crucial to the operation of the scheme was the CNAA 's recognition that some institutions had established successful ‘ internal validating committees ’ as sub-committees of Academic Boards , ‘ responsible for considering schemes on their behalf before they are submitted to the Council ’ , and others had developed faculty or school machinery to do the same .
12 ( Bottom ) Wallace noted that some cockatoos — Australian birds — had crossed his demarcation line to Bali .
13 The possibility that some fossils corresponded to species no longer alive today had been noted even in the late seventeenth century , but had been put on one side until now .
14 These values highlight that some tissues are more susceptible to damage than others .
15 A long-term irritant to the police has been the ongoing allegation that some officers have been closely connected with freemasonry .
16 Some theories of rhythm go further than this , and point to the fact that some feet are stronger than others , producing strong-weak patterns in larger pieces of speech above the level of the foot .
17 It is equally clear that some directors have privately expressed fears that , given the crudeness with which the 1993–4 budget trends will have been constructed , severe cash shortages could affect them by September .
18 It is , of course , true that some wrappers might come from the chocolate which had already been bought or from chocolate which would have been bought without the offer , but that does not seem to me to alter the case .
19 But as a poet you will appreciate that some experiences are communicable only through symbols — symbols which lose all virtue in any attempt at paraphrase or analysis .
20 Though we have begun by stating that some consonances are stronger than others , the difference is not striking , and for the sake of simplicity we intend to regard them as equal for this method of creating harmony .
21 This can happen in the closest of relationships when the parent is wanting to be caring and kind but realizes that some limits need to be set .
22 It may also be argued that some limits to growth , which Hirsch ( 1977 ) called ‘ social limits ’ , are already operating .
23 They may have been the gigantic reptilian analogue of the elephant , and it may be no coincidence that the elephant also has its nasal openings on top of the skull , with the nostrils in this case sited at the end of the trunk it has been suggested that some sauropods may have had a proboscis of some sort .
24 I know that some knitters prefer to work from a written patter , where everything is explained in full throughout the whole pattern .
25 One of the things that some knitters say is that there are not many Form Programs published .
26 It is worth noting that some writers on business strategy are well aware of this problem .
27 At the same time , it should not be forgotten that some writers had been advocating the use of multiple methods for years :
28 Thus , over the area of sexuality as a whole we see some improvements in the lot of women , but not the great liberation that some writers have suggested .
29 So valuable is it that some scientists regard it as a scent and as soon as they detect it , they know that they are on the right track .
30 So beautiful is this emotion that some scientists and poets regard it as the elixir of life and pursue it for no other reason .
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