Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] that some [prep] " in BNC.

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1 This meant that some of the old despoblados , the deserted towns that had been the despair of the economists for two hundred years , came back under cultivation , just as in the town of Salamanca , centre of a great wheat region , the empty houses left untenanted by the recession of the seventeenth century were occupied once more .
2 This meant that some of those who qualified for money received literally nothing at all .
3 This meant that some of his own sons were already adult when he succeeded at the age of 35 : his eldest son Lothar was nearly 20 — old enough to provide an alternative focus of loyalty for aspiring nobles .
4 This means that some of the energy which would otherwise escape to outer space is trapped within the atmosphere .
5 This means that some of us are on an , ‘ executive committee . ’
6 Perhaps inevitably , this means that some of the detail of particular research has been omitted , but the general clarity of the articles and their accompanying lists of references are such that intelligent readers are given a clear view of their particular interests and encouraged to delve deeper should they wish .
7 Sivapithecus combines some of these same characters of the distal humerus with primitive characters of the humeral shaft , and this confuses the issue still further if it is grouped in the orang-utan clade , for this indicates that some of the postcranial characters shared by the orang-utan and the African apes must have evolved independently .
8 This indicates that some of the previous reduction was a slowing in tempo : a postponement , rather than an absolute decline , in family size .
9 Some suggested that some of the military and political leadership had found unacceptable Chadli 's readiness to negotiate with FIS leaders — a position in which he apparently had the support of Abdelhamid Mehri , secretary-general of the FLN .
10 However , it is interesting to note that some of the most serious programmes in this field have been carried out in Third World countries .
11 All agree that some of our beliefs are justified by their relation to other beliefs .
12 Can we use item one two nine on the minutes , first of all to say that some of us were at the H I V awareness training session last week , with Robin , we enjoyed it enormously , she 's hiding behind the thing .
13 In view of the Korean love for fighting , although we have no proof it is safe to assume that some of the North Korean attacks are in retaliation of South Korean attacks .
14 It is equally safe to wager that some of her actions will bring her into conflict with the competition directorate in Brussels , while her community policy plans will draw fire from Britain and Germany .
15 In 1970 , Pamela Allerston , for example , looked at villages in the Vale of Pickering and was able to show that some with very regular plans had come into existence in the early Middle Ages and replaced an earlier arrangement of scattered hamlets .
16 It seems to me possible to demonstrate that some of the general requirements of justice are compatible with any determinations including contradictory determinations .
17 ‘ I — I 'll cook you a meal , ’ Jenna offered quickly , pleased to see that some of his rage had subsided .
18 And by the way I 'm very pleased to see that some of you actually wrote it completely in your own words did n't you .
19 It was not difficult to spot that some of the products in our portfolio could never again be profitable .
20 I was amazed to realise that some of them had been using their machines for five years and had no idea of the machines capabilities because all the instructions are written in either English , Spanish or Japanese ; nothing in Thai .
21 I am sorry to say that some of them are dead now , and others have left the dale to live in Barnard Castle with their own families .
22 Of course it was nice to know that some of our things were made from the wool from our own sheep .
23 ‘ Subsequently I was disappointed to find that some of our family papers were missing .
24 The case against heavy defence expenditure can not rest simply on arguments that some of that money would be better spent on social policy ; it is necessary to prove that some of that expenditure is inappropriate or irrelevant , or to face the argument that without it no social policy would be secure .
25 In both Devon and Somerset it is possible to show that some of the surviving medieval farmsteads represent former hamlets .
26 Then he had also been astonished to find that some of Sheffield 's cutlery grinders earned from 18s ( 90p ) to £1 a week .
27 Holiday schemes , in other words , during the Christmas , er , particularly the summer holidays was extremely full in our areas that had these schemes , but it is true to say that some of the children did not pay their full amount .
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