Example sentences of "be [adj] [that] some [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be arguable that some part of the substance used does attach to the article cleaned , even if the rest is rinsed off , so that ownership in that part passes by adhesion to the article . |
| 2 | It is possible that some elements of the Hooligan dress-style were derived from the clothes favoured by costermongers in mid-nineteenth-century London . |
| 3 | It is possible that some basis for explaining British football hooliganism may be found in appropriate studies of American sports-related disorder . |
| 4 | We may imagine a measure of disappointment when these requests were vetoed by the committee , and it is clear that some re-education of staff must have been necessary in arriving at appropriate submissions . |
| 5 | It is clear that some groups of animals , like the proboscideans ( elephants and allies ) , are much reduced now compared with the late Tertiary , both in variety and geographic distribution . |
| 6 | It is clear that some provision of communal rooms is important in the conversion of old buildings to multiple occupation , and consistent with other comparable projects analysed in this book , the common room of Thames Tunnel Mills is logically located at ground-floor level . |
| 7 | It is clear that some variables in English do function in a very general way : for example , variation between the alveolar and velar nasal in the present participle ending ( ing ) is universal and can be said to mark the whole English-speaking world as a single speech community . |
| 8 | It is unfortunate that some speakers in the debate — for example , the Prime Minister — have cast doubt on the quality of the debate on these momentous issues in other European Community countries . |
| 9 | It is difficult to identify this character in unsectioned skulls , but it is likely that some degree of airorhynchy is primitive for hominoids , greatly exaggerated in the pongine lineage and modified towards klinorhynchy in hominines , but as my observations lead me to believe that the bonobo is airorhynchous to some degree , it is difficult to be sure of the ancestral hominine character state . |
| 10 | It is likely that some degree of unity could have been achieved between them had not Mrs Webb become convinced that the division was irreconcilable and determined to make every effort to bring her proposals to fruition . |
| 11 | He says : ‘ While there is no doubt that the Causey Mounth once was a public right of way , it is likely that some sections of the route may have fallen into disuse . ’ |
| 12 | McCann suggests that the idea of having a march through the city centre to commemorate him was inspired by this desire to provoke the authorities ; but given the importance of the centenary , it is likely that some kind of parade would have been organised in any case . |
| 13 | High hopes and summer weather did nothing to encourage circumspection , and by the time Coleridge and Southey left Bath the next morning , with Southey 's dog Rover in attendance , it is likely that some kind of relationship with Sarah was already understood . |
| 14 | Within the temple , it is likely that some sort of allocation was made to the priests , priestesses , scribes , servants and craft workers . |
| 15 | It is likely that some form of vetting extends to divisional ( one-star ) level |
| 16 | There are references to such ‘ gonnes ’ in accounts of the siege of Berwick as early as 1333 , while it is likely that some form of artillery was brought across the sea by the English for the long siege of Calais of 1346–7 . |
| 17 | It is obvious that some form of register will be needed . |
| 18 | Whatever plan of management is adopted , however , it is important that some form of biliary drainage is instituted urgently to lessen the risk of cholangitis . |
| 19 | It is probable that some islands around Britain have been formed by the oscillatory nature of Pleistocene sea level ( Fig. 9.3 ) . |
| 20 | From the Templars ' use of the Atbash Cipher , it is probable that some form of Nazarean or neo-Nazarean sect had continued to survive in the Middle East as late as the twelfth century , and had made its teachings available to the West . |
| 21 | It is probable that some units on sale will find applications in other , wood-rich developing countries . |
| 22 | It is surprising that some people in Liverpool chose not to pay their community charge , when they were urged not to do so by Labour Members of Parliament ? |
| 23 | It is true that some opponents of the Government saw rearmament as the main issue — notably Churchill . |
| 24 | It is true that some members of the party were inclined to take a ‘ soft ’ line towards Germany : prominent among them were Philip Noel-Baker and Richard Stokes , both of them middle-class members of the party . |
| 25 | It is significant that some parts of the mathematics curriculum ( notably arithmetic and algebra ) are seen by many people both inside and outside education to be relevant , whereas other parts ( topology and , perhaps , geometry ) are not . |
| 26 | The policy basis for this solution is that it is desirable that some points of law of general public importance be finally resolved by the House of Lords . |
| 27 | It was clear that some notion of popular sovereignty provided the only plausible basis on which to challenge the theory and practice of absolutism . |