Example sentences of "it [is] [adv] [verb] [conj] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that 's true , but it 's often forgotten that some of us on this side of the fence also play professionally — they say teachers are failed musicians and I suppose many people see music journalists as those not good enough even to teach ! |
| 2 | It is not to deny that some culturally elaborated behaviour can usefully be explained from a biological perspective . |
| 3 | The working paper dealing with this topic argues that ‘ it is generally recognised that some prescribing is wasteful or unnecessary expensive . |
| 4 | The effect of the Sicilian experience on Yeats is disputed by Yeats scholars , but it is generally agreed that some effect there was . |
| 5 | It is particularly striking that some of these reviewers , when discussing recordings by English ensembles , praise what they assume to be the impeccable musicological credentials of what they are hearing , so clear does it seem to European eyes that early-music performance in England is conducted under the vigilant eyes of scholars . |
| 6 | To quote one of them ( D. M. Anderson ) , ‘ It is widely accepted that some , perhaps many , of the abiotic chemical reactions and processes leading to the origin on Earth of replicating micro-organisms occurred very early in the history of Earth in close proximity to the surfaces of clay minerals and other inorganic substrates . ’ |
| 7 | IBM now has 13 autonomous business units , with nine focused on specific product lines , and it is widely suggested that some of these need heavyweight industry veterans to run them effectively . |
| 8 | It is also thought that some women enjoy fantasies of rape . |
| 9 | It is also envisaged that some other steel exporting countries would ultimately accept the rules , creating an ‘ International Consensus ’ on public aids to steel producers , which could be formalised under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) . |
| 10 | It is usually postulated that some association between infant or childish sexual satisfaction and the fetish object — a strong but not necessarily direct association — is responsible for its significance to the individual . |
| 11 | They could obtain compass information from the sun and stars , and it is indeed known that some seasonal migrators follow stellar patterns ; stellar orientation has been particularly well studied in the indigo bunting , a bird that inhabits North America . |
| 12 | Indeed , it is often claimed that some family firms preferred to avoid being profit-maximisers and take a safe return from past investments . |
| 13 | However , it is now known that some corals can survive settling sediment and that even reefs may develop in muddy surroundings . |
| 14 | The Clean Air Act of 1970 set out to create a healthy atmosphere for the population within less than a decade , but even by the 1990s this has not been achieved and it is now expected that some urban areas will not achieve healthy air until well into the next century . |