Example sentences of "is [verb] in some [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover to advocate exposing French tradition to foreign literatures , citing Whitman , Williams , and Pound , as seminal influences , to translate them in addition to David Jones or Basil Bunting , and to deny any allegiance to the French poetic mainstream is received in some circles with incomprehension . |
| 2 | Interactive modelling and analysis facilities are provided on both systems although an option is given in some cases to run jobs in batch mode . |
| 3 | The problems are most acute in Africa where population pressures are also greatest , though modification of South American savannas is increasing ; desertification is occurring in some areas as a result of overgrazing . |
| 4 | If one can not — and that is happening in some cases — it only means that … ’ |
| 5 | Nevertheless , if there is any sense in which capitalism can develop the Third World , and there is evidence that this is happening in some countries or in some sectors , then the theoretical elaboration of the idea of dependency reversal may be useful . |
| 6 | It is said in some circles that Morrison is alive and well and living in Des Moines , so perhaps we will one day have to sit through Doors II : the Incognito Years . |
| 7 | It is said in some quarters she is being vindictive about these matters . |
| 8 | There are two open bothies on the route but contrary to what is written in some places , the farm at lonely Carnmore on the Letterewe estate is not inhabited except for part of the year . |
| 9 | The proposed tax would bring carbon-rich fuels in line with natural gas , which is taxed in some countries but not others . |
| 10 | Another way out of the problem of fraud could be to require from both parties the presentation of a birth certificate as a prerequisite for the issuing of a marriage licence , as is done in some states in the United States . |
| 11 | This does not entail however , as Hirtle 1975 seems to suggest , that the infinitive must represent an event as referred to some point in time prior to its realization : if such were the case , it would be impossible to explain why to is needed in some contexts but not in others . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , I think its effect is to distort in some ways the dualism set up by Proust . |
| 13 | No wonder the collapse and death of the dean of St Paul 's is attributed in some chronicles to his learning of this last demand . |
| 14 | Benjamin Jowett ( 181793 ) , Master of Balliol College , Oxford , and one of the modernizing dons who supported endeavours to extend university education and to attract men from new social classes to Oxford , considered that " classical study is getting in some respects worn out , and the plan proposed [ the introduction of English Language and Literature at Oxford ] would breathe new life into it . |
| 15 | Since perfect competition does not exist in practice — at best it is approximated in some markets — the stringent conditions for efficient resource allocation by the market are not met . |
| 16 | Whether the British system of government creates the conditions for responsible government is doubted in some quarters . |
| 17 | Although it is less widely used than it once was , it is found in some bronchodilators and cough mixtures . |
| 18 | The sort of rebounding abuse , the trickster tricked , the reader ( ironically ) laughing at an image he does not realize is his own , that she describes , is indeed a pattern that is found in some fabliaux . |
| 19 | In our part of Italy , as in every other , there was an information system always in operation : radio popolo , the people 's radio ( what is known in some countries as the grapevine ) . |
| 20 | These are what we call information skills ; this phrase is meant to include what is known in some contexts as ‘ library-user education ’ , ‘ reading development ’ , ‘ experimental and research training ’ , ‘ study skills ’ and ‘ media literacy ’ . |
| 21 | Yes its Orange Walk season , when we are invited to rejoice in celebrating the victory of King William of Orange ( or Good King Billy as he is known in some circles ) at the Battle of the Boyne . |
| 22 | It is feared in some quarters that television destroys family life but with us it 's the Opposite way round . |
| 23 | A new phenomenon is identified in some prisons . |
| 24 | Gas is promoted in some countries , including Britain , as a way to reduce emissions from fossil fuels , because it generates less CO2 per unit of energy produced . |
| 25 | Also , in the wake of the Maxwell disaster , the government has published regulations restricting self-investment by occupational pension funds to 5 per cent ( a transitional period is allowed in some cases to give schemes time to reduce any existing self-investment ) . |
| 26 | The resistance to labouring class poets is balanced in some respects by the support they received . |
| 27 | This coordination of two developmental events , crucial to the formation of the eye , is achieved in some animals by the approaching eyecup inducing the lens to develop just where it touches the surface , and so the lens develops at the right place . |