Example sentences of "be [adj] that some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am sorry that some others have apparently taken leave of their senses . |
| 2 | I am afraid that some jobs will now be at risk as a result of this . ’ |
| 3 | Linda Edwards of the National Osteoporosis Society says : ‘ We 're concerned that some GPs do n't know about the different types of HRT . |
| 4 | They 're concerned that some people fostering East European children are n't so conscientious and anxious that all potential parents are carefully screened . |
| 5 | They 're concerned that some people fostering East European children are n't so conscientious and anxious that all potential parents are carefully screened . |
| 6 | Now I am sure that some readers will write to say that if the player is moving forward then if he drops the ball it must be moving forward also . |
| 7 | They may be unaware that some bureaux can arrange home visits . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Clearly some treatments can not be disguised ( e.g. surgical operations ) and we must also be sure that some side effect does not reveal the true drug to the doctor . |
| 10 | Anyone who might be thinking of embarking on one of their saddlery courses should be aware that some specialist tools will need to be bought . |
| 11 | When one recalls that for decades geography was not recognized as a scholarly discipline , one can not perhaps be surprised that some scientists have unsuspectingly spent their whole careers studying geography — rather like the well-known character of Molière who did not know that he had been speaking prose all his life ! |
| 12 | It may be true that some dictionaries are more suitable for language processing than others , but such distinctions should not be based on size alone . |
| 13 | Diana has been furious that some Palace aides tried to build up stories before the tour that the couple were getting closer together again . |
| 14 | They are furious that some people thought they were just some zany fashion experience , a house group , Seventies revivalists . |
| 15 | Newts and other rare reptiles are being stolen from ponds , and conservationists are worried that some species could die out altogether . |
| 16 | I am worried that some people will see this as a mental health trust and I am very disappointed that the emphasis has been placed there and not on services such as the district nurse service which gets scanty coverage within the document . |
| 17 | Ian Bond , the liquidator , said yesterday : ‘ Without the order , we were concerned that some litigants would have won summary judgment in their favour without us being able to defend ourselves properly . |
| 18 | IT IS shameful that some people are saying Britain should not give sanctuary to refugees from the civil war in Yugoslavia . |
| 19 | It is possible that some day such concern will change . |
| 20 | It is possible that some elements of the Hooligan dress-style were derived from the clothes favoured by costermongers in mid-nineteenth-century London . |
| 21 | It is possible that some basis for explaining British football hooliganism may be found in appropriate studies of American sports-related disorder . |
| 22 | We have seen above that it is possible that some individuals may wish to work fewer hours and take more leisure as a result of an increase in the real wage . |
| 23 | Quantitative measures of its effect are hard to come by , but it is possible that some co-citation clusters may be subject to this form of coupling distortion . |
| 24 | The two 1973 elections , i.e. for Local Government as well as the Assembly , were held immediately after the advertising campaign and the electorate could concentrate on one method of voting , but since that time two Westminster elections were conducted by means of the X-vote , and it is possible that some voters may have been confused . |
| 25 | It is conceivable that some electors actually misled the pollsters , not in the sense of lying deliberately but in the sense of ‘ letting off steam ’ . |
| 26 | But at the same time it is clear that some periods display radical situational change , while others , in between these , are periods of relative situational stability , when day-to-day conjunctural movement assumes a more prominent position in the historical picture ( see Gramsci 1971 : 175–85 ) . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | However , it is clear that some collocations only exist in particular inflected forms [ Schuetze , forthcoming ] . |