Example sentences of "is [that] some [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Another reason why you may not see them mating is that some adults can lay eggs without mating first . |
| 3 | ‘ A further complication is that some products are doing exceptionally well while others are in decline . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Something you learn all too quickly working on a magazine like Guitarist is that some things are difficult to adequately describe . |
| 6 | The point is that some things in health services ca n't easily be looked at with quantitative methods alone . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | All it means is that some properties of the replicators should have an influence over their probability of being replicated . |
| 9 | The point is that some parents do it habitually . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | A further important complication for the study of implementation introduced by the involvement of professionals is that some activities depend upon the co-operation of two or more professional groups . |
| 13 | An additional problem is that some drugs , notably diuretics which are commonly used with older people , cause a loss of potassium . |
| 14 | What they 've been saying is that some authorities might have experiments in the cabinet arrangement we 're not advising to go down that road because and on which point we do n't agree with that type of of government . |
| 15 | One of the problems is that some doctors still behave as if they are deserving of awe , or as if patients are fools , when every patient is an expert on himself , at least . |
| 16 | ‘ The brutal truth , however , is that some youngsters are so out of control they have to be detained , but that should be the last resort . ’ |
| 17 | The corollary is that some areas will be better placed to initiate a shift away from the isolated role of special schools . |
| 18 | The disadvantage of this is that some promoters underadvertise , underpromote , and undermarket the gig to try and put more pounds in their pockets by reducing their expenses . |
| 19 | The second is that some elements of decline or decay are present in the ageing process and that these may on occasion substantially or totally affect social and emotional functioning . |
| 20 | The plain fact is that some elements of the social charter would run the risk — indeed , would make it a real possibility — of this country returning to some of the trade union practices that did so much damage during the 1970s . |
| 21 | The problem is that some butterflies have to be eaten to teach the birds to begin with . |
| 22 | For SCOTVEC , the message from the evaluation is that some adjustments and refinements to the new advanced courses system need to be made . |
| 23 | The only exception is that some mosquitoes prefer drinking blood from group A for some reason . |
| 24 | Another testable restriction is that some variables will affect only the membership and wage equations directly . |
| 25 | A further consideration is that some variables such as occupation , industry and educational qualifications were only coded for 10% of non-imputed households . |
| 26 | It is not quite a handicap system either but the point is that some sufferers can , for instance , swim better than others and may therefore go up a classification . |
| 27 | The worry for the anthropologists is that some sociobiologists jump directly from their impressively careful observations of the mating behaviours of lions and deer and ostriches to sweeping assertions about the causal determinants of mating behaviour among men . |
| 28 | One possibility is that some patients thought to be stone free may , in reality , have had residual debris despite our use of the best available techniques ( ultrasonagraphy+oral cholecystectography ) to ‘ confirm ’ complete gall stone dissolution . |
| 29 | Part of the alleged unfairness is that some plaintiffs in the United States courts will be denied the extensive discovery available to plaintiffs generally ; but that is to give absolutely no weight to the specifically international aspects present in particular cases . |
| 30 | The first is that some cricketers have been cheating for years in a most blatant manner . |