Example sentences of "is [adj] that some of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is possible that some of the high recorded reflectance values from the East Midlands Platform and Cleveland High areas may have been enhanced by such effects . |
| 2 | A few , indeed , were alleged to have lived beyond a hundred , and it is possible that some of the cases were authentic . |
| 3 | While it is possible that some of these exceptions result from the differing energetic requirements of males and females and attendant selection pressures affecting the relative size of the two sexes ( Selander , 1972 ; Downhower , 1976 ) , the common association between sex differences in size and the development of male weaponry suggests that selection pressures associated with breeding competition are frequently involved . |
| 4 | It is possible that some of a company 's shareholders will have interests , for example , as employees or customers , that are distinct from their investment interest in the business . |
| 5 | It is possible that some of the biggest changes from the creation of the SEM could arise from placing companies , institutions , and citizens on learning curves . |
| 6 | Whilst it is conceivable that some of these jobs will be craft based and thus provide an outlet for some initiative and self activism , the significant reality will be that they have no economic power and no industrial muscle . |
| 7 | Looking at the remaining 16 error cases from our system ( see table 5.4 ) in more detail , it is clear that some of these can in fact be solved by applying some simple substitutions where the recognition has failed . |
| 8 | There often comes a point in the growth of an enterprise when it is clear that some of the activities are profitable and others are a burden . |
| 9 | One assumes that there were considerably more , although it is interesting that some of those activities reported to us had already been reported elsewhere . |
| 10 | No but I think it is interesting that some of the Parish Councils for instance who initially were opposed to the application and very strongly , as they have been supplied with further and better information have modified their position and are now saying subject to rigorous planning controls they are no longer opposed outright to the application . |
| 11 | Some tragedy consoles , after all , and it is arguable that some of its consolations are facile and false . |
| 12 | If a driver drives on a highway without due care for other users it is foreseeable that some of the other users of the highway will be pregnant women and that a child en ventre sa mère may be injured . |
| 13 | It is likely that some of the chief Druids fled from Gaul at the time of Caesar 's invasion and took refuge in Britain where they initiated and developed a strong anti-Roman feeling among the most susceptible British chieftains . |
| 14 | If those who profit from the sale of descriptions of their investigations and speculations about matters of public interest are not restrained by fear of appropriate penal or financial consequences from publishing defamatory statements which are false , it is likely that some of them would publish so much in the nature of defamatory allegations against public organisations , and the men and women who run those organisations , that the public , if there was no effective process for determining whether the charges were substantially true or not , might cease to be greatly concerned about the charges save for such amusement as the stories might provide . |
| 15 | It is doubtful that the BCG matrix is very useful for total portfolio management in many multi-business groups , because , even if the group is involved in SBUs whose business is dominated by the experience-curve effect , it is likely that some of its SBUs will not be and hence that they can not be reliably analysed within just the BCG context . |
| 16 | Although we know very little about the tenurial and ownership patterns of these sites , it is likely that some of the inhabitants actually owned land outside the settlement and grew their own crops . |
| 17 | A further possibly important mechanism in rock breakdown associated with freezing , at least in very fine-grained lithologies , is hydration shattering ( see Section 6.3.1 ) and it is likely that some of the effects of physical weathering previously attributed to frost weathering in fact result from this process . |
| 18 | However , this does not generally apply to larger farms , and it is paradoxical that some of the lowest earnings are in East Anglia , where the largest and probably most profitable farms are located . |
| 19 | In doing so it is inevitable that some of the negative aspects of ageing and our attitudes to it are stressed . |
| 20 | It is natural that some of these stories were developed and adapted to make the message of the Gospel relevant to people of differing backgrounds to the Jews . |
| 21 | Thus , though the placid British jurassic sediments have received vastly more than their fare shair of study , it is curious that some of their more spectacular features have been relatively neglected . |
| 22 | Now it is evident that some of these statements have gone beyond compromise . |
| 23 | As we move on to the fifteenth century , it is hard to judge the extent or the severity of individual outbreaks of plague or of other diseases , but it is probable that some of the epidemics which occurred in urban centres , where plague was most common , were on a sufficient scale to outweigh any natural increase in the population . |
| 24 | It is irrelevant that some of them happen to be ‘ beetle genes ’ , while others happen to be ‘ bacterial genes ’ . |
| 25 | Bobby Hunt is certain that some of Minton 's erotic drawings were either given or sold to the Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum , Carl Winter , who occasionally invited Minton to stay with him and his Burmese boyfriend in Cambridge . |
| 26 | If it is true that some of them are not quite what they were — and even this grasped-at straw is no more than speculation — we may rest assured that the successor generation brought on tour to breathe down their necks will be as good if not better . |
| 27 | It is true that some of these poorer working class families were moved into council houses but , as Orwell , M'Gonigle and others have noted , the high rents and rates tended to reduce their living standards and death rates remained high because of lack of income . |
| 28 | It is true that some of these people are recognised with honours . |
| 29 | The greater landowners would also employ other gentlemen servants in the management of their estates in the early eighteenth century , some of whom might be freeholders , and all of whom would have connections with the voting freeholders , and while it is true that some of these appointments were poorly paid , one has to bear in mind the comparative poverty of so many of the Scottish gentry in terms of money income . |
| 30 | Hillary is aware that some of his efforts to help the Sherpas and their environment have led to threats from the pressures of tourism . |