Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [that] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Offenders who are mentally disordered suffer the stigma of being labelled as both ‘ mad ’ and ‘ bad ’ , although for centuries it has been recognized that some people have diminished responsibility for their actions as a result of mental abnormality and that punishment and retribution , usually demanded by society of someone who has committed a crime , should be dispensed with in favour of providing humane care and treatment . |
| 2 | It has been calculated that some 37% of families would be better off , and 37% worse off , as a result of the change from Community Charge to the Council tax . |
| 3 | It has been claimed that some will have to choose between keeping warm and having enough to eat . |
| 4 | However , it has been claimed that some doctors in the province will perform abortions in certain circumstances . |
| 5 | Initially it had been felt that some families failed to take advantage of the services offered by the welfare state and , despite the basic social services , they fell into poverty and sickness , remained ignorant of the skills and attitudes needed to cope with life and failed to find accommodation for themselves . |
| 6 | Earlier we had been told that some ‘ lascivious ’ nudes were ‘ a sign of increasing decadence at the centre of an inflexible regime ’ , a phrase with some deeply troubling echoes of vocabulary . |
| 7 | I 've also been told that some of my shots would make very good ‘ New Age ’ album covers , so you never know . |
| 8 | And Hotline has been told that some of them are to question McMenemy 's position . |
| 9 | We have an energy-rich country and a massive trading balance , so why the hell are we importing electricity from France which I believe attracts the nuclear and importing coal from dubious sources and I have been told that some of that coal has been extracted by women and children , often in horrendously unsafe conditions . |
| 10 | It has been shown that some schools offer a rehash or revision programme based on pre-registration modules , while others prepare courses in line with the very latest developments available . |
| 11 | Thirdly it has been shown that some sequence selective ligands induce bleomycin cleavage at novel sites [ 24,25 ] . |
| 12 | Until today it had been thought that some staff would stay on to keep the base on standby . |
| 13 | It has already been noted that some science students had made the choice between science and arts on the basis that it was easier to keep up with arts in one 's spare time than it was to keep up with science . |
| 14 | It had long been known that some metals gave colours to flames ; but this was an unreliable test , because colours are hard to describe exactly , and because they are usually masked by a brilliant orange-yellow . |
| 15 | For example , it has been found that some striking perceptual differences in viewing a wire-frame cube ( including , for example , the ease with which certain mental images can be formed of it ) depend on which alternative structural description of the object is assigned to it by the perceiver ( Hinton 1979 ) . |
| 16 | It has been proposed that some extremely simple aspects of the environment — spatial and temporal location of information and its frequency of occurrence — may be coded automatically without the requirement of conscious attention ( Hasher & Zacks , 1979 , 1984 ) . |
| 17 | In differentiating various kinds of policies , and in interpreting their implications for ministerial power , it must be recognized that some policies have implications for more than one department . |
| 18 | And it should be added that some degree of ethnocentrism is likely to be endemic because all discourses and individuals necessarily have to use language and categories . |
| 19 | It should be added that some influential and interesting recent developments of linguistic or stylistic criticism , notably Roger Fowler 's Literature as Social Discourse , propose a kind of functional analysis that is rather different from those we have been considering . |
| 20 | It can be expected that some rabbits confined in short burrows will begin to bolt quite quickly , at times almost instantly . |
| 21 | Yet it should never be forgotten that some of the disquiet felt about institutional care ( more fully discussed in Chapter 7 ) has arisen from the ‘ scandals ’ of chronic wards in hospitals , in which long-term patients were , on occasion , subjected to degrading treatment . |
| 22 | At the same time , it should not be forgotten that some writers had been advocating the use of multiple methods for years : |
| 23 | Omitting the voltmeter from our circuit , so that a current can How in the resistive wire , it may be seen that some of the current will be forced through the wire hence the device works as a generator . |
| 24 | But it should also be said that some elements of this description of mine could be taken to characterise the activity , sometimes ominous enough in its human implications , of all imaginative writers , however remote they may be from the dualistic confederacy . |
| 25 | It could be said that some sort of crisis was going to force itself up in the life of a strongly emotional young man who was so strictly engaged in compartmentalizing his life : a father who was never meant to know about Janie Moore ; Minto herself cut off from college ; almost all his friends kept in darkness about his emotional history , and most of them at this period unaware of his religious interests ; pupils who were discussing with him the things he cared about most — books — but in a fashion which prevented his strength of feeling breaking through . |
| 26 | On the other hand , though , it has to be said that some of the local urban excitements have been on the tame side recently : a swimming pool murder , an outbreak of cholesterol war between rival pizza outlets , the car that drove into the non-drive-in dry cleaners , and so on . |
| 27 | As Chapman observed : ‘ Although I do not suggest that the Arsenal go on the defensive even for tactical purposes , I think it may be said that some of their best scoring chances have come when they have been driven back and then have broken away to strike suddenly and swiftly . ’ |
| 28 | It needs to be said that some handicapped readers ( brain-damaged or retarded ) can fully enjoy books : we have the lesson of Cushla as an inspiration here ( Butler , 1979 ) . |
| 29 | It has to be said that some species are notoriously difficult to acclimatise to aquarium life when collected from the wild , but once the acclimatisation process is complete they will usually become resilient and even robust . |
| 30 | Barth travels far and wide through the Bible , from Genesis to Revelation , and digests , criticises , and re-states a vast amount of material from the previous history of Christian thought , and from contemporary discussion — much of this in lengthy pages of tiny print , which readers are sometimes relieved to discover can be passed over without loss of the main drift ( though it should be said that some of the finest passages are to be found in the small print ) . |