Example sentences of "some [noun pl] [adv] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some accounts also suggest that these waves swept over the low-lying parts of St Pierre , near the waterfront , causing some damage and casualties . |
| 2 | Some merchants there maintained that the old gods had served them well and would not be pleased by the withdrawal of sacrifices in favour of a foreign and untried god . |
| 3 | Another consequence of the labelling of Impressionism and other groups by critics was that some artists naturally decided that they themselves could do the same job better than the critics . |
| 4 | Some organizations now insist that their staff be constantly cheerful and smiling , no matter how they feel . |
| 5 | Some experimentalists publicly stated that , in their opinion , the measurements were wrong ! |
| 6 | Some Conservatives also suspected that the welfare ethic — by removing the risks and disciplines of the market , providing a cushion for failures , and undermining incentives for the ambitious — weakened enterprise . |
| 7 | Bathing , for instance , had to be forbidden along the fashionable coastline ; some ecologists even suggested that Estonian drinking water was so polluted it could be set on fire ! |
| 8 | Liza had written some weeks ago to say that John had been sent , at only a few hours ' notice , on a course . |
| 9 | What we have said we are involved in a process which must involve both governments and all parties , whose objective is agreement among our divided people an agreement which all our traditions must give their allegiance and agreement , and an agreement which must express which which must respect our diversity , now I have kept repeating that statement since we made it and I asked anyone to tell me what they disagree with it , now the loyalist paramilitary some weeks ago said that if the I R A were to k their impression they 've given all along is that they 're just a reaction to the I R A and if the I R A were to stop they would cease immediately , I immediately put out a statement welcoming that statement by them , I also offered to talk directly to them , but they have refused er given the nature of their campaign , particularly at the moment , I begin to wonder do they want the I R A to stop ? |
| 10 | He came to see me some weeks later explaining that he had failed to get a job . |
| 11 | Respondents understood very clearly the difficult role of the manager , and some workers openly confessed that nothing would induce them to take on the manager 's job ! |
| 12 | Some observers also calculate that , if one takes account of the profits forgone from these enterprises in future years and sets them against the revenues raised now , the government may have sold the assets at too low a price . |
| 13 | IBM and Hewlett-Packard decided — or were persuaded by independent software vendors — that a common kernel was not a necessity for competing with NT , which is why COSE does not address the issue , even though some observers still believe that the perceived lack of a common Unix kernel will hand Bill Gates a propaganda advantage . |
| 14 | I was at one point some years ago told that more money 's invested in pigeon racing than in horse racing . |
| 15 | the security contracts that have covered Wakefield , Drury and Norwich Houses for some years now show that this is an effective method of providing security to Stamford and Rennie House . ’ . |
| 16 | Some haematologists thus believe that all blood should be routinely filtered , and something like four million filters were used in the United States last year . |
| 17 | Some relatives now think that without evidence from the Americans there 's little point in the inquest continuing . |
| 18 | I put up for sale the service areas on new long leases , retaining some controls only to ensure that the areas were safe stopping places for motorway travellers . |
| 19 | Some members also believe that setting up a faculty would be tantamount to handing auditing on a plate to those critics of the profession who have called for auditing matters to be placed under independent control . |
| 20 | Some members still believed that the only rightful form of sex was between a dominant husband and obedient wife in a lifelong heterosexual marriage . |
| 21 | In my own department , I should say that , although some members still believe that literature is best studied in isolation , looking simply at ‘ the words on the page ’ , most of us now like to contextualise it in some way , often historically , and are inclined to ask students to read some texts which are not ‘ literature ’ in the conventional sense . |
| 22 | Recent advances in medical treatment of HIV mean that some doctors now think that it is worth knowing if you have an HIV infection . |
| 23 | Some critics also argue that any qualification of economic determinism threatens the distinctiveness of Marxism . |
| 24 | Some critics also argue that there is a direct link between hospital closures and widespread homelessness and vagrancy , but this argument is not borne out by research . |
| 25 | However a few people who tested antibody negative have gone on to develop AIDS , and some scientists now believe that — extremely rarely — someone with HIV may never produce antibodies . |
| 26 | Some children never learn that it is worth the effort and so do not learn to read efficiently . |
| 27 | Some wits even suggested that the answer to the labour shortage which the ‘ total war ’ measures were seeking to combat was to be found by closing down the Propaganda Ministry and combing out Party offices . |
| 28 | Although her views are still regarded as highly eccentric outside reactionary conservative and fascist circles , it is interesting to note that some historians now argue that secret societies like the IRA and the Mafia have indeed played a significant role in world events , and that the Illuminati conspiracy in the 1780s was truly a model for future revolutionary organization . |
| 29 | This account is now generally accepted , although some historians still suggest that Elizabeth herself would have preferred to have reintroduced the 1549 Prayer Book , had she been able to enlist any support for this move from her lay and clerical advisers at court . |
| 30 | Some papers later reported that he had stopped for tea at the Ritz but this unlikely frivolity was angrily and officially denied . |