Example sentences of "there is some " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is some doubt in a grey area of differences between monographs on the one hand , and catalogues or biographies on the other . |
| 2 | But there is some question of a pathogenic secret , of the recovery of material hitherto repressed which influenced his perception of his mother : and his understanding of the past would certainly appear to have been enlarged by his researches . |
| 3 | But there is some instability in the accounts he gives of dark professions of faith , in his acerbities and fatalities . |
| 4 | A rich restoration character , not recommended unless there is some reasonable experience working in the style . |
| 5 | The current obsession with pseudo-Victorian and other bogus ‘ historical ’ styles imposed willy-nilly and quite regardless of the true age of the pub , seems to suggest two things ; firstly that pub designers and fitters have completely lost their way , both in recognising and respecting what is genuinely old and in looking for a wholeheartedly modern pub style ; secondly that there is some king of awareness , correct but misguided , that people like their pubs to look old and feel familiar . |
| 6 | There is some justification for this caricature of the typical computer user — though customers ' critics might ask themselves first how well-written the manuals are , before complaining that people never read them . |
| 7 | There is some confusion over the parentage of S. ‘ Fastigiata ’ . |
| 8 | When Sarah McCabe ( 1980 ) queried the logic of why just one police system should be entrusted with the control of crime , law , order , and social assistance , pointing out , ‘ there is some disagreement about the use of the criminal law — unease about control of the streets … [ which poses the question ] who will be controlled and [ who will be ] assisted ’ , she found the tenor of her ‘ thoughtful and moderate examination of the police role … was too much for the senior officers to whom it was presented , and they set out to discredit it with a will ’ ( Greenhill 1981 : 98 ) . |
| 9 | Thus , there is some degree of selfdetermination in the ship case because we are free to shut our eyes , to cross the river and see it move from right to left , free to jump into the water and watch it coming towards us , free to determine the speed with which it passes across our visual field by moving our eyes with or against its movement . |
| 10 | So , in a near-threshold task the subject may be accurately identifying the presence of a stimulus which tells the experimenter that there is some kind of mental representation of the stimulus , but there is no way the experimenter can decide whether or not the subject is consciously aware of the stimulus . |
| 11 | Obviously there is some problem which I shall attempt to diagnose . |
| 12 | There is some controversy over the finish on carving chisels and gouges . |
| 13 | There is some truth in this , but not altogether in the sense that was there intended . |
| 14 | Evidence of excessive demand There is some observable good sense in this argument , and it helps to explain why sterling has not hit the fan a lot earlier , during a truly spectacular swing from surplus to deficit over the past two years . |
| 15 | The first reason the Chancellor gives is that there is some ‘ bad ’ froth on the ‘ good ’ deficit : that is to say , evidence of excessive domestic demand . |
| 16 | On the other hand , extreme plagiarism , banality or cynicism still induce a certain queasiness in the beholder , which suggests there is some point in good architecture . |
| 17 | There is some dispute about the level of abuse in this country . |
| 18 | There is some ‘ outstanding teaching in most subjects in most institutions , but as a proportion of the total teaching effort the amount is comparatively limited ’ . |
| 19 | There is some consolation , too , for Formula One world champion , Ayrton Senna , for last week 's crunch with Nigel Mansell in Portugal . |
| 20 | I wonder if there is some contradiction here . |
| 21 | Konitz acknowledges that there is some basis in his history for this view : he and his 1950s musical guru , the pianist Lennie Tristano , in a sense set themselves up as a ( white ) alternative school to bebop : ‘ Tristano was keen to prove that whites could play jazz , though Charlie Parker , Lester Young and Louis Armstrong were his heroes . |
| 22 | There is some truth in this . |
| 23 | But there is some evidence that the gap is closing . |
| 24 | There is some corroboration for our conclusion in previous research , however : at the 1983 election Gunter , Svennevig and Wober ( 1986 , p. 119 ) found that ‘ whilst television clearly emerged from among various sources of information about politics as the major source , it seemed to be relatively less important in the decision-making process of which way to vote ’ . |
| 25 | So on unemployment there is some evidence of a slight tendency for the public to follow the lead of the parties and the media but it was a very slight adjustment of public attitudes . |
| 26 | When a company runs a record and a publishing operation , there is some co-operation when signing artists . |
| 27 | Indeed there is some evidence that only with the Argentine invasion of the Falklands and the deaths of British servicemen did the ‘ Fortress Falklands ’ policy emerge . |
| 28 | There is some merit in Mrs Thatcher 's claim that too often Royal Commissions were appointed largely to avoid decisions or to postpone necessary tough action : she has not appointed one Royal Commission in her ten years in office . |
| 29 | There is some evidence that it was Snowden who suggested the formula of the ‘ doctor 's mandate ’ , at a Cabinet meeting on 5 October , under which the component parts of the National Government were each to issue their own manifestos , with a separate personal appeal from the Prime Minister , According to Neville Chamberlain , ‘ Snowden … produced the suggestion that the Prime Minister should issue his own manifesto asking for a free hand [ i.e. on tariffs ] and the two Party leaders should each issue their own programmes and to our astonishment this was at once accepted by the Liberals , ' Amery , who perhaps got the information from Chamberlain , wrote in his diary on 6 October , ‘ Apparently when the deadlock seemed most complete Snowden suggested that the PM should issue his own manifesto , each of the other party leaders issuing theirs . ' |
| 30 | One can see it by the numbers of new business start-ups ; also by the number of failures which does show there is some healthy risk-taking . |