Example sentences of "be that some [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In so far as society is divided into different interests , of which labour and capital are the prototypical examples , it may well be that some interests have more control than others over the development of representations which accord to their perspective and thus their interests . |
| 2 | Could it be that some machines have been neglected all summer ? |
| 3 | In any case , it could well be that some students have no interest at all in certain idioms and prefer to by-pass them quickly in their search for what expresses their own aesthetic more closely . |
| 4 | It may well be that some accountant has shown the society a loophole through which it can escape the obligations laid upon it at its foundation in 1914 . |
| 5 | It may be that some couples cohabit initially because they are uncertain about the strength of their relationship so their subsequent marital breakdown could be attributed to these underlying doubts , rather than the ‘ destructive ’ experience of cohabitation . |
| 6 | A further concern is that some journals do not transmit the referees ' comments to the authors ; this wastes the referees ' time and fails to appreciate that they want to improve published articles not just act as gatekeepers . |
| 7 | ‘ All you 've said so far is that some kid thinks he 's seen the man we want . |
| 8 | The point is that some parents do it habitually . |
| 9 | One reason why some surgeons are reluctant to remove the lymph gland in the armpit is that some women develop subsequent swelling of the arm ( lymphoedema ) . |
| 10 | A further important complication for the study of implementation introduced by the involvement of professionals is that some activities depend upon the co-operation of two or more professional groups . |
| 11 | The disadvantage of this is that some promoters underadvertise , underpromote , and undermarket the gig to try and put more pounds in their pockets by reducing their expenses . |
| 12 | The problem is that some butterflies have to be eaten to teach the birds to begin with . |
| 13 | The only exception is that some mosquitoes prefer drinking blood from group A for some reason . |
| 14 | The worry for the anthropologists is that some sociobiologists jump directly from their impressively careful observations of the mating behaviours of lions and deer and ostriches to sweeping assertions about the causal determinants of mating behaviour among men . |
| 15 | One possibility is that some patients thought to be stone free may , in reality , have had residual debris despite our use of the best available techniques ( ultrasonagraphy+oral cholecystectography ) to ‘ confirm ’ complete gall stone dissolution . |
| 16 | The first is that some cricketers have been cheating for years in a most blatant manner . |
| 17 | What matters here is that some bats have well-developed muscles attached to the stirrup and to the hammer . |
| 18 | The cruel truth is that some animals put some humans to shame . |
| 19 | Olson , for instance , does admit at one point that all we can really be sure of is that some academics have made claims for objectivity while the question of assessing those claims is a different matter : |
| 20 | Another problem is that some synthetics smell , even when washed , so look for fibres coated with an antibacterial agent . |
| 21 | Romaine does not deny that implicational relationships exist in language , but concludes ( citing De Camp 1971 as an example ) that " the problem is that some linguists seem to be quite willing to put forward very arbitrary implicational scales without justifying them . " |
| 22 | The evidence for this is that some scarps cut across several sizeable craters , whereas others are cut by sizeable craters , indicating that there are scarps which are older than appreciable numbers of sizeable craters , whereas others are much younger . |
| 23 | However , the fact is that some people use this notion and that is more important than what it really is . |
| 24 | Life-positions throw light on why it is that some people tend to be winners and some losers in life . |
| 25 | Let's talk about horse racing , but before we do so , one last question about football pools and that is that some people have systems — they come up with a whole range of numbers and combinations of things — does that make any sense at all ? |
| 26 | But what I hope what we hope of course is that some people give us a real good try . |
| 27 | I think the important point I 'd like to make at the outset is that when the review of the requirement was carried out it was carried out both nationally and on a four nation basis , the ministers , once that was complete , the ministers decided that and stated publicly in December ninety two , that we will continue with the existing airframe and engine combination and that each nation er based on a family of aircraft concept could decide from a menu which equipments it would fit according to their individual requirements and their budget and we looked individually at each of the items to see what impact it would have on the operational capability if we were to remove them and what erm was decided in the end and the requirement reflects this , was signed last month by the Chief Surveyor 's staff , is that some nations have decided to remove certain items of equipment but for the U K we felt that it was necessary to keep all the major items and therefore as far as the U K is erm impact on the operational requirement is concerned , there is no significant alteration in its operational capability and therefore in overall percentage terms there is no decrease in the capability at all . |
| 28 | One of the more unprofessional results of the plague was that some priests latched on to the idea of leaving the parochial ministry and becoming chantry priests — often , in the process , gaining a lucrative return for very little work . |
| 29 | One effect of the early deadline was that some teachers claimed that their reports had to be rushed and that there was little opportunity for a considered appraisal : |
| 30 | The only problem was that some fans broke the granny 's fence and scared the cat . |