Example sentences of "some [noun] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the discussions of the mid-1970s it was hoped in some institutions that this step might be the forerunner of others involving greater delegation of powers . |
| 2 | In the first edition of this volume I pointed , optimistically , to some signs that this situation was changing slowly with , for example , the establishment of the Older Feminists Network in 1982 and the recent Age Concern/EOC joint initiative on incomes in old age . |
| 3 | In some cases that smiling face belongs to the wife of the managing director ! |
| 4 | It could indeed be argued with some force that international morality was tending to improve slightly during this period . |
| 5 | There is some fear that such resistance might pass into weed populations so making both them and " volunteer " crop plants more difficult to eradicate . |
| 6 | Some fear that big rises could precipitate mass defaults next year . |
| 7 | It was only after some months that endothelial denudation was observed with platelet mural thrombus attached to exposed lipid-containing macrophages . |
| 8 | Perhaps not surprisingly , we have copious evidence throughout the period of women who felt no sexual pleasure because of the fear of pregnancy , and there is here some indication that working class women may have internalised middle class ideas of passionlessness and its correlate : male sensuality . |
| 9 | Each step should be simple and complete in itself — preferably with some indication that successful completion has been achieved , for example the appearance or the change of colour of a signal light , or the noise of a motor starting or a change of pressure which indicates that there has been a change in the flow of some material . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , there is some indication that this decline may be less marked than at first appears due to the nomenclature of the diseases involved . |
| 11 | There seems to be no way in which the human race can bring about the civilisation of its members without using to some degree that same power of evolution which inevitably needed for its effect the imposition of some measure of discomfort , pain or unhappiness in some form or other . |
| 12 | Wordsworth sees with some prescience that political beliefs will be the calls to battle in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries — you might say ! |
| 13 | The answer does not lie in saying that London has some advantages that other parts of the country do not enjoy . |
| 14 | The point here is that given the institutional and political realities of the formulation and implementation of nuclear policy , it would be difficult to characterise any rights to which the peace movement may wish to lay claim ( for example , the right to a nuclear-free world ) as legally protected ‘ choices ’ , especially given the insistence by some governments that nuclear policy is not a ‘ justiciable ’ issue ( Weiss , Chapter 11 ; but see Offczors and Ruete , Chapter 13 ; Hickman , Chapter 12 , all in this volume ) . |
| 15 | Do I already have some suspicion that one day it is going to be removed from the records and scattered , perhaps vanish altogether ? |
| 16 | I have heard it suggested that there is some danger that prospective buyers might be put off by the idea that their units have been used in this way . |
| 17 | Though there were complaints in some places that 1 January 1913 came and went with no settlement in sight and though seamen on weekly boats in Hull were aggrieved at receiving less than their colleagues elsewhere , 2s.6d increases on weekly wages and 10s on monthly were fairly readily conceded , more in some places . |
| 18 | You have almost certainly known for quite some while that one cycle is coming to a close and that it would be foolish even to attempt to defy the winds of change . |
| 19 | There is some evidence that contemporary composers are showing a renewed interest in the Church as a patron of the arts . |
| 20 | There is some evidence that cervical cancer is more common in women who smoke cigarettes , especially heavy smokers or women who have been smoking for several years . |
| 21 | There is some evidence that low salinities induced by freshwater may result in physiological damage to corals . |
| 22 | It makes sense though to ensure that your hands are clean when you insert a tampon because there is some evidence that tiny nail scratches on the vaginal wall can allow infectious organisms to enter the bloodstream . |
| 23 | Barnard 's observation that succussed solutions showed a greater viscosity than the equivalent simple dilutions prepared without succussion provides some evidence that homoeopathic potencies do indeed contain long-chain molecules . |
| 24 | There is some evidence that practical family planning first began amongst what F. B. Smith calls the ‘ self instructed classes ’ , not the upper middle classes but those most responsive to radical propaganda . |
| 25 | Most meteorites are believed to be fragments of collisional debris from asteroids , but there is some evidence that carbonaceous chondrites may be stony masses released from the icy nuclei of comets , which lose their frozen binding material as they orbit close to the sun . |
| 26 | Although the traditional concept of the map is changing , paper maps will continue to be widely used , because their use requires low technology ( a pair of eyes , or even one eye ) , they are cheap to produce in large quantities , easy to store , and are well understood by the map-using community , although there is some evidence that many people are unable to relate the pattern on a map to the corresponding real-world features . |
| 27 | While there is some evidence that matching grants are more stimulative than unconditional grants , the prediction that unconditional grants have the same effects as a lump-sum increase in income is not confirmed . |
| 28 | Whereas intervals of three to four years between births have the greatest health benefits , as noted earlier , there is some evidence that longer intervals of , say , five or more years do not carry these benefits and , in fact , may have a deleterious effect ( see Table 9 ) . |
| 29 | There is some evidence that Cornish tin-mining maintained a reasonable level of production , although with some fluctuations : a sharp drop just after the Black Death and a boom at the end of the fourteenth century were followed by a period of depression in the half-century after 1430 , with a considerable recovery by the early sixteenth century . |
| 30 | Official American Library Association publications in the 19305 paid regular tribute to the multi-media idea ( there is some evidence that British librarians maintained illustrations collections and by I 935 record collections without so much publicity ) . |