Example sentences of "be [conj] some [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The predictions are that some records will tumble . |
| 2 | The results of this approach are that some individuals may be committed to lifelong drug therapy which they do not need . |
| 3 | The implication would seem to be that some lives could be ‘ so demonstrably awful ’ that the doctor 's legal duty would be limited to making the child comfortable and allowing it to die . |
| 4 | In so far as society is divided into different interests , of which labour and capital are the prototypical examples , it may well be that some interests have more control than others over the development of representations which accord to their perspective and thus their interests . |
| 5 | It may be that some areas are running out of money er which clearly need money , maybe there 's other areas are in surplus with the demands on them that are n't so great , so the answer may simply be to find a way of operating with greater flexibility within the total cash limit . |
| 6 | While a corollary of the new deal may be that some consultants will have to take a more direct role in the acute management of patients , this in no way diminishes the attraction of a senior post . |
| 7 | For example , it may be that some services ( or sectors ) have developed better indicators of quality or effectiveness than others , and that it may be possible to transfer their experience . |
| 8 | It is possible , for example , that a large proportion of loans are for the most recently deposited theses ; alternatively , it could be that some theses are more often requested than others , and that loan records for such theses would be found within different time periods . |
| 9 | It may even be that some ingredients were added from outer space , brought by meteorites . |
| 10 | It may be that some visitors will get no further than this area ! |
| 11 | Could it be that some machines have been neglected all summer ? |
| 12 | In any case , it could well be that some students have no interest at all in certain idioms and prefer to by-pass them quickly in their search for what expresses their own aesthetic more closely . |
| 13 | The answer may be that some sorts of postmodernist de-differentiation are implicitly ‘ reactionary ’ , and other sorts potentially integral to a reconstructed left political culture , and still other sorts can politically cut either way . |
| 14 | ‘ Could be that some tracks could emerge on a compilation , however , ’ says SF 's Clive Selwood . |
| 15 | Either way ( and the suspicion must be that some historians are determined to have it either way ) , blame for the collapse of the Carolingian state is laid at the door of the Frankish nobility . |
| 16 | It may be that some couples cohabit initially because they are uncertain about the strength of their relationship so their subsequent marital breakdown could be attributed to these underlying doubts , rather than the ‘ destructive ’ experience of cohabitation . |
| 17 | Though this would not satisfy purists , the only factor that would invalidate the productivity index for this purpose would be if some companies had widely different subcontract proportions in their outputs ; these would have apparently higher figures than the others . |
| 18 | A career in outrage is a fine place to be but some jokes just are n't funny any more . ’ |
| 19 | It is not surprising that the general trends for the indigenous population of the Russian colony of Siberia from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century were that some individuals , mainly ‘ chiefs ’ or traders , adapted to the ways of their conquerors and became successful according to the standards of Russian society , while the mass of their compatriots , exploited by the Russian system and lacking any means of redress , fell increasingly into poverty and degradation . |
| 20 | A further concern is that some journals do not transmit the referees ' comments to the authors ; this wastes the referees ' time and fails to appreciate that they want to improve published articles not just act as gatekeepers . |
| 21 | Another reason why you may not see them mating is that some adults can lay eggs without mating first . |
| 22 | ‘ A further complication is that some products are doing exceptionally well while others are in decline . ’ |
| 23 | Perhaps more important for the teacher is that some students , especially those from other cultures , may have been conditioned to respond to authority figures , especially teachers , by unquestioning obedience . |
| 24 | Something you learn all too quickly working on a magazine like Guitarist is that some things are difficult to adequately describe . |
| 25 | The point is that some things in health services ca n't easily be looked at with quantitative methods alone . |
| 26 | The truth is that some members of the Liverpool board had misgivings about the way Swansea were run and wondered if Toshack might have picked up bad habits . |
| 27 | All it means is that some properties of the replicators should have an influence over their probability of being replicated . |
| 28 | The point is that some parents do it habitually . |
| 29 | One reason why some surgeons are reluctant to remove the lymph gland in the armpit is that some women develop subsequent swelling of the arm ( lymphoedema ) . |
| 30 | Another highly important fact is that some sets of cross- references taken together would actually reveal inadequacies in the way in which the material to which they refer is handled in the dictionary in its present form . |