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

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1 In some cases that smiling face belongs to the wife of the managing director !
2 It could indeed be argued with some force that international morality was tending to improve slightly during this period .
3 Some fear that big rises could precipitate mass defaults next year .
4 It was only after some months that endothelial denudation was observed with platelet mural thrombus attached to exposed lipid-containing macrophages .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 Wordsworth sees with some prescience that political beliefs will be the calls to battle in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries — you might say !
8 The answer does not lie in saying that London has some advantages that other parts of the country do not enjoy .
9 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 ) .
10 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 .
11 There is some evidence that contemporary composers are showing a renewed interest in the Church as a patron of the arts .
12 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 .
13 There is some evidence that low salinities induced by freshwater may result in physiological damage to corals .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 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 ) .
21 There is some evidence that anti-HIV drugs can modify the effect of HIV on the nervous system .
22 There is some evidence that different transport systems , and even similar transport systems on the apical and basolateral membranes , are selectively regulated .
23 — Although anorexia nervosa has been thought of as developing in the context of a ‘ perfect childhood ’ , there is some evidence that psychological trauma may predispose to the disorder .
24 There is however now some evidence that Select Committees would like to interest themselves in the Committee system and may be seeking to erode the present convention .
25 There is some evidence that wild populations of mice have , in the past , gone extinct through epidemics of t genes .
26 • There is some evidence that high-protein foods ( fish , meat , etc. ) and caffeine-containing drinks ( coffee , tea ) are best taken in the morning and that a light snack rich in carbohydrates ( fruit juice and dessert ) is best for supper ; caffeine-containing drinks should be avoided just before sleep .
27 There is some evidence that institutional investors are now more prepared to increase the allocations to gilts in their portfolios .
28 There is some evidence that transitory dampness can occur , possibly due to this condensation , in a small number of dwellings , but there is no evidence that it has led to rot .
29 There is some evidence that particular characteristics of events are more likely to be implicated in one disorder than another .
30 It has been claimed by some writers that distinctive feature analysis is not irrelevant to the study of language learning , and that pronunciation difficulties experienced by learners are better seen as due to the need to learn a particular feature or combination of features than as the absence of particular phonemes .
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