Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [vb pp] that some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had long been known that some metals gave colours to flames ; but this was an unreliable test , because colours are hard to describe exactly , and because they are usually masked by a brilliant orange-yellow . |
| 2 | It has already been noted that some science students had made the choice between science and arts on the basis that it was easier to keep up with arts in one 's spare time than it was to keep up with science . |
| 3 | But it should also be said that some elements of this description of mine could be taken to characterise the activity , sometimes ominous enough in its human implications , of all imaginative writers , however remote they may be from the dualistic confederacy . |
| 4 | It may also be noted that some US multinational companies attempted , quite unsuccessfully , to introduce into Japan ( and other Asian countries ) wage systems based on job evaluation and merit rating , as opposed to the more usual Japanese system of seniority and educational qualifications ( ILO , 1973 ) |
| 5 | It may also be argued that some limits to growth , which Hirsch ( 1977 ) called ‘ social limits ’ , are already operating . |
| 6 | It has even been suggested that some coral reefs , which it will be recalled are mostly dead coral and debris , are being destroyed rather than built up : they could be relics of higher sea levels . |
| 7 | At the risk of wearying the reader it must again be stated that some degree of incestuous feeling exists in most if not all parents and children . |