Example sentences of "be [adj] that in some [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The examples in ( 8 ) are representative : ( 8 ) the visiting scientists are nuclear farmers who will qualify are arable the expert was meteorological Ascriptive adjectives on the other hand may freely occur predicatively ( although it is possible that in some cases an ascriptive adjective may be excluded for different reasons ) . |
| 2 | The levels and movements of urban rent are hard to document , but where substantial series of records survive , it is clear that in some towns at any rate , rents fell in the fifteenth century . |
| 3 | It is evident that in some areas the local political parties were intent on retaining control . |
| 4 | Perhaps it 's surprising that in some cases the learning outcomes and performance criteria were not being assessed or applied — all the National Certificate publications stress that these features are at the heart of the competence-based system and that they can not be varied under any circumstances . |
| 5 | It is true that in some cases these publications may be of extreme radical tendency , attacking the established practices of academic English teaching , but that is no objection , since it is the fact of publication that counts , not its content . |
| 6 | It is true that in some cases it happens that the recipient does not find the punishment painful , or even welcomes it — for example , some offenders might find prison a refuge against the intolerable pressures of the outside world . |
| 7 | It is true that in some countries such reservoirs of capital were already available , amply sufficient not only for their own needs but also anxious to be drawn upon ( for a suitable rate of interest ) by the rest of the world 's economy . |
| 8 | It is true that in some respects the two institutions were assimilated , but enough has been said to indicate that the most fundamental disparities , in structure and in procedure , remained unchanged . |
| 9 | Miranda was relieved that in some ways Xanthe could still be her age . |
| 10 | Mr Threlfall , who has promised an investigation , said it was inevitable that in some cases response times were longer . |
| 11 | I was aware that in some circles there was a market for less innocuous pleasures , for there was a great deal of poverty that winter , and the occupying armies , with their apparently endless supplies of food and tobacco and warm clothes , could buy more or less whatever they wanted . |