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

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1 The practice of editors varies substantially , and these points are intended to suggest that some simple changes could improve the ways in which they communicate about the process and their decisions .
2 We are persuaded to think that some of these qualities must also have been shared by a wider spectrum of staff .
3 Traditionally , United Kingdom law has been generous and compilations of non-original matter have been protected providing that some judgment at least has been expended in its making ( see Macmillan & Co .
4 Nevertheless there are incidental details in Gregory 's account which might be thought to suggest that some , if not all , of these atrocities are rightly placed ; for instance Gregory states that Clovis had Chararic tonsured , which , if true , implies that the Merovingian himself had already been converted .
5 ‘ You will be vexed to hear that some of the birds said to be in your last package from Sydney were missing : by what I can gather from your list they formed the whole of one of the smaller packages .
6 The provision as drafted is not entirely clear , and the use of the words " is not of itself to be taken " might be construed to imply that some other type of truly voluntary acceptance could override s 2(1) or 2(2) by the operation of the rule .
7 They are not only worth preserving in themselves ; a watchful eye needs to be kept to ensure that some other piece of street furniture — say one of the new all-glass telephone boxes — is not crudely juxtaposed beside them .
8 Sturt was about to proceed upon a new expedition into the interior of Australia I beg to send for your perusal a Letter I have lately received from him and from which you will perceive that he has written to Lord Stanley ; as I know no one better fitted for such a purpose than this enterprising and persevering Gentleman I do hope the Government may be disposed to second his views ; perhaps , your Lordship , could obtain and favour me with some information on the subject ; from the manner in which you referred to him in your Letter I am led to believe that some arrangement has already been made ; pray say if such be the case .
9 But I mean , were led to believe that some of the people that you see sitting on the streets of Edinburgh begging are actually making a good living out of it !
10 I am tempted to think that some such process is involved in the development of repeated structures , such as the segments of a worm , or a flower 's petals , or the stripes on a zebra .
11 Here he is , h h he has the very unpleasant duty of explaining and justifying the drafting of this measure a a and I do hope it would be , it would be really rather an unexpected realisation of an ambition , but nevertheless one hopes eternal if my Noble Friend were to get up and say that as a result these few remarks that I have been tempted to make that some kind of effort is going to be made to tidy up as th th the processes whereby er such stuff appears , is allowed to appear on the pages of the Statute Book er er I do recall that when the Charities Bill was going through several committees , my Noble Friend was n't who who was d d dealing with the Bill in , on behalf of the Government was exceedingly helpful and I hope that he will show the same degree of goodwill today er and , and , and er h if he 's very clear and devote is very considerable energies to persuading those professional obs obfuscators who are responsible for this kind of garbage to do better in the future .
12 The very fact that the installation of a protective system is considered presupposes that some degree of control of the fire is desired , and if this is the case , the degree of control required must be capable of being quantified .
13 What is needed to ensure that some popular control can be exerted over political leadership , some governmental accountability can be enforced ?
14 Instead , the Commission indulged in some verbal gymnastics with : ‘ This work is beginning to suggest that some types of tree grow better in air that has most of the pollution removed from it . ’
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