Example sentences of "it that some [noun] " in BNC.

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1 So valuable is it that some scientists regard it as a scent and as soon as they detect it , they know that they are on the right track .
2 Once we have put aside such relatively easy observations as the tendency or requirement for long or complex adjective phrases to occur postnominally , there are two fundamental questions which badly need to be asked about the grammar of postnominal attributives : ( a ) What is the difference in effect or value obtained by the speaker who uses postnominal position when prenominal position is equally grammatical ? ( b ) Why is it that some adjectives ( and some adjective phrases ) can occur quite easily in postnominal position while others , apparently comparable , are limited to prenominal position ?
3 Why is it that some people find it so difficult to accommodate the idea that providing immediate relief to human suffering can go alongside campaigning for longer term solu-tions ?
4 However , from our present perspective it is actually more pertinent to turn the question round the other way and ask : why is it that some people , despite having a strong genetic disposition for psychotic illness do not actually break down — or , even if they do , are partly protected from its more devastating effects ?
5 That is , why is it that some people rather than others who experience the type of disparity described above become committed to a movement for moral reform ?
6 Why is it that some people have more energy to give to their careers than others ?
7 Events like redundancy , divorce , bereavement , family and work problems , debts , separation , illness , may be stressful for most of us , but why is it that some people can go through crisis after crisis and never suffer the effects of stress ?
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