Example sentences of "it [be] [verb] that some [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By using a combination of laser optics and cancer drugs , it 's hoped that some patients will be in and out of hospital within a day . |
| 2 | In looking at the services to be provided , it is recognised that some duties require a more responsible level of staff than others . |
| 3 | It is recognised that some courses , particularly those in primary education , aim to permeate the whole course with language understanding . |
| 4 | Unix Systems Laboratories Inc president Roel Pieper and his boss-in-waiting , Novell Inc chief Ray Noorda were in Japan last week explaining to Unix Labs 's Japanese shareholders the ins and outs of the deal that 's been cut : it is said that some companies , perhaps ICL Plc and Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA , were interested in somehow retaining their shares in the Unix firm . |
| 5 | It is believed that some vines can live as long as five hundred years although such a plant would yield a negligible crop of grapes . |
| 6 | However , it is recognized that some processes , such as the production of output for proofing or to magnetic tape , may be executed in a background mode to optimize the use of system resources . |
| 7 | It is realized that some teachers have had to temporarily give up teaching for various reasons and the longer one is out of teaching the harder it is to build up confidence to teach again . |
| 8 | In a changing world it is reassuring that some things never change . |
| 9 | Conversely , it is thought that some employers will leap at the chance of employing enrolled nurses knowing or believing them to be a cheaper alternative in terms of pay . |
| 10 | This would cause many of the possible infinities to cancel out , but it was suspected that some infinities might still remain . |
| 11 | The Cabinet had agreed on March 20 that Decree No. 42 should be discarded but it was understood that some members of the Cabinet favoured new press legislation to replace the decree , while others thought that the existing criminal code was enough to ensure a responsible press . |
| 12 | It was accepted that some specialists and a class of supplementary clerks would be needed , but they did not fit into the overall scheme . |
| 13 | It was noticed that some undertakers dispensed with full-length shrouds , preferring to adapt the coffin lining to serve this purpose . |
| 14 | As a result the warbler increased in numbers until by 1988 the population had built to the extent that it was decided that some birds could be caught and transported to the island of Aride , some twelve kilometres north , which is managed by the UK-based Royal Society for Nature Conservation . |
| 15 | The extent of the problems faced by students at the poly was highlighted last week when it was revealed that some students were living in cars , and others had to turn down places because of the lack of affordable housing . |
| 16 | Only when it was discovered that some men , formerly working on the surface , were working in canteens on the lowest male rate — higher than the female rate — did the union begin to campaign for equal pay for the women . |
| 17 | In the two ballots held on May 17 it was discovered that some voters had voted twice , and Scalfaro , the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies since April [ see p. 38870 ] , ordered that the voting regulations should immediately be amended ; deputies would be handed a single voting slip as they entered a specially constructed voting booth . |
| 18 | In the previous chapter , it was noted that some groups of trees employed in turn the same species of pollinating insects , suggesting that within certain constraints these were generalist in their flower-visiting . |
| 19 | Using the principles of stratigraphy , borrowed from geology , it was deduced that some types of tool were earlier than others . |
| 20 | Although theoretically any potency can be used , in practice it was found that some potencies were more effective than others . |
| 21 | It was found that some aromas made people feel drowsy , others made them feel uplifted or even euphoric . |
| 22 | It was estimated that some units ( railway troops , civil defence and military construction units ) would be without recruits , partly because of deferred service and sickness , but also because of the creation of independent armed forces in the former Soviet republics . |
| 23 | It was reported that some delegates demanded the replacement of between 70 and 90 per cent of the 91-member central committee , but almost 80 per cent of the outgoing central committee members were estimated to have been re-elected . |