Example sentences of "it [verb] that some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In its brief analysis of the impact of the Channel Tunnel it estimated that some £5m passengers ( or 50,000 air passenger movements ) would be diverted to the tunnel in 1995 rising to 6m ( 65,000 movements ) in 2000 . |
| 2 | It allows that some definitions will be of greater ‘ priority and intensity ’ than others and this has been taken to imply that the definitions will differ in their subjective interpretation by those who receive them ( see Taylor , Walton and Young , 1973 ) . |
| 3 | A final point that has to be borne in mind is that in order to make generalizations based on the type of quantitative analysis pioneered by Labov , a large number of tokens must be analysed ( usually thousands ) ; however , it happens that some variables that are quite salient in the community occur relatively rarely , and so we can not make reliable quantitative statements about these covering the range of speaker variables , even though they may be involved in linguistic change and may be important for historical projections on to earlier English . |
| 4 | and I second agenda and erm we ask for your attention to para three point four er which is the financial part of this budget really and it says that some contingencies in nursery schools should be increased , erm that it is actually allowed for in the later budget erm the tax payer budget will be . |
| 5 | It claimed that some teachers in the primary school had allowed performance in the basic skills of reading , writing and arithmetic to be adversely affected by their inadequate understanding and hence uncritical application of child-centred , or informal , methods . |
| 6 | It claimed that some trees might have been listed as endangered through insufficient data , and decided that if the report were published , it could adversely affect efforts to sell species " mistakenly " included on the list . |
| 7 | It followed that some schools were more competitive and selective academically than others : those which had no fee-payers ( in the pre-1932 sense ) were startlingly similar in character and purpose to the type of post-war grammar school of which , very much later , I became a head . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , it appears that some play-pens themselves are dangerous . |
| 9 | For it seems that some assurance is required that societies have and must have this structure . |
| 10 | As Buck states , ‘ there is , in reality , a lot of difference between the expression of a preference and a choice and it seems that some parents who have heard of the new rights sometimes confuse these two concepts . ’ |
| 11 | Stoddart quotes a great number of opinions on this subject : it seems that some authorities think that they may have been caused by a fall in sea level which meant that the reef flat became a barrier to water movement , so that surf became channelled down the outer edge of the algal ridge as it returned to the sea ; alternatively the spur and groove system may be the most effective form of baffle for dissipating wave energy and is caused by reef-building corals forming the spurs — the grooves , once formed , may of course be accentuated by scouring . |
| 12 | Now it seems that some things work , especially those like the AEC that are associated with what has come to be described as the problem-focused/task-centred approach ( Roberts , 1990 ) . |
| 13 | Er with the new contracts that started in September erm basically it seems that some teachers are having to do bits of cleaning themselves to keep their their classroom up to up to scratch up to the standards they ought they ought to be . |
| 14 | In other cases it seems that some assessment was made , at a high level , of the general condition of a school , so that it was considered inappropriate for project status . |
| 15 | In other words , it seems that some schoolchildren ( boys ) are rewarded for breaking the rules while others ( girls ) are punished for following them . |
| 16 | But there is some good news , because it seems that some people are beginning to take seriously the problem of graduate unemployment . |
| 17 | In contrast to a few years ago when one would rarely hear any teaching on the Holy Spirit , it seems that some people can speak of nothing else these days . |
| 18 | It seems that some designers of upright cookers think they can get away with dowdy styling and primitive features . |
| 19 | Where no such group existed , it implied that some addition to the organisation was needed ; in other cases , the new requirements indicated a change in the responsibilities of existing functional groups . |
| 20 | Mark , the earliest Gospel , makes it sound as if Jesus does not allow divorce under any circumstance ; but Matthew modifies it to allow that some circumstances may make remarriage legitimate . |
| 21 | Burlington , Massachusetts-based Bachman Information Systems Inc warns that it expects revenues for its third fiscal quarter to Aprch 31 to be below analysts ' expectations and that the operating loss for the quarter will also be greater than financial market expectations — it notes that some analysts had forecast revenues of about $10m . |
| 22 | If value consensus is an essential component of all societies , then it follows that some form of stratification will result from the ranking of individuals in terms of common values . |
| 23 | It follows that some process other than random mutation and selection must be involved . |
| 24 | From initial investigations , it appeared that some measure of the number of letters in a word , and the word shape , would be quite restrictive for the list of possible candidates ( for Case 1 ) , as discussed below . |
| 25 | At first it appeared that some progress was being made . |
| 26 | Suffice it to say that some people are better built at the beginning . |
| 27 | In a statement issued on Feb. 7 , 1990 , however , it said that some $2,000 million had been spent on an operation which had been halted in mid-September for climatic reasons . |
| 28 | It recognizes that some laws are passed purely as symbolic victories which the dominant class grants to inferior interest groups , basically to keep them quiet ; once passed , they need never be efficiently or systematically enforced . |
| 29 | It suggested that some polytechnics and colleges should be given complete autonomy by the Secretary of State to validate their own courses ; others should be allowed more limited autonomy , in specific areas ; while in yet others external validation should remain . |
| 30 | ‘ However , in fairness to Price Waterhouse , it should also be stressed that on other occasions — for example , in April and October 1990 — when the firm had made its audit report to the directors of BCCI , it ensured that some information was passed on to the Bank of England . |