Example sentences of "[that] some [noun pl] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Already there is evidence that some firms which have introduced microelectronic production technology have experienced difficulties as a result of a shortage of engineers , technicians and programmers . |
| 2 | The fact that some countries who were signatories of the Convention had one system and some another reinforced the court in its view that no single system could be called for . |
| 3 | When the conversation turned to sex the interviewer asked , ‘ We 've heard that some women who ordinarily have difficulty achieving orgasm find themselves capable of multiple orgasms under LSD . |
| 4 | Is he aware that among women serving life sentences in Bullwood Hall women 's prison for murdering their husbands there are several whose lack of command of English meant that they were not aware that there was anywhere that they could run to , that some women who had tried to run away from extreme brutality were dragged back by their families , and that some were terrified of leaving their children with a brutal partner , and that therefore they had to wait until they could do something about it and were driven to commit murder ? |
| 5 | From Africa it was noted in one or two cases , that some visitors who came from extremely distressing and confined situations found it hard to offer to groups the ‘ hopeful and inspiring ’ messages so often hoped for and expected . |
| 6 | We have seen that Locke agrees that some things which we know , such as that all numbers are even or odd , could not be learnt directly from experience , and that he explains that he never meant otherwise , for what experience gives us is not knowledge itself , but its materials in the form of ideas . |
| 7 | So the argument put forward by Machiavelli that a leader ‘ must not mind incurring the scandal of those vices without which it would be difficult to save the state ’ on the grounds ‘ that some things which seem virtues would , if followed , lead to one 's ruin and that some others which appear vices result in one 's greater security and well-being ’ , is completely contrary to Gandhi 's views . |
| 8 | But if one rids oneself of the idea that there need be any thing in common to good things , other than that they are good , one will be ready to recognize that there may be other good things which do not involve pleasure , that some things which involve pleasure may be good rather than bad , and that relative goodness need not be proportional to relative pleasurableness . |
| 9 | As Buck states , ‘ there is , in reality , a lot of difference between the expression of a preference and a choice and it seems that some parents who have heard of the new rights sometimes confuse these two concepts . ’ |
| 10 | Within days of the allied liberation of Kuwait in late February [ see pp. 37982-90 ] it was evident that some Kuwaitis who had lived through the Iraqi occupation were disillusioned with the ruling Sabah family and were determined to demand political reforms . |
| 11 | Furthermore , they suggest that some researchers who have reported correlations between emotional support and health in the absence of life events might in fact be picking up a correlation between chronic strain and support . |
| 12 | Even in a legal system which had the narrowest of definitions of murder — say , premeditated intention to kill — there would still be an argument that some cases which fulfil that criterion should have their label reduced from murder to manslaughter because of extenuating circumstances . |
| 13 | We know that some laws it may make will not be effective . |
| 14 | Test results show that some products which have been publicised as Alar-free by retailers and manufacturers were still found to contain Alar . |
| 15 | Withdrawal of support for activities not contractually required meant that some changes which teachers had been willing to make had not yet been realized . |
| 16 | But much latelier , in the private academies of Italy , wither I was favoured to resort , perceiving that some trifles which I had in memory , composed at under twenty or thereabouts , for the manner is that everyone must give some proof of his wit a reading there , met with acceptance above what was looked for , and other things which I had shifted in scarcity of books and conveniences to patch up amongst them , were received with written incomience which the Italian is not forward to bestow on men of this side the Alps . |
| 17 | It is true that some nurses who observe poor standards in ward management or patient care will resolve never to perform so badly . |
| 18 | So the argument put forward by Machiavelli that a leader ‘ must not mind incurring the scandal of those vices without which it would be difficult to save the state ’ on the grounds ‘ that some things which seem virtues would , if followed , lead to one 's ruin and that some others which appear vices result in one 's greater security and well-being ’ , is completely contrary to Gandhi 's views . |
| 19 | Unfortunately , it appears that some play-pens themselves are dangerous . |
| 20 | Just when we thought we were comfortably settled , Mrs Brown informed us that some friends who took a stall in the Bedford market were coming the next Saturday and that , as she had always put them up , would we mind sleeping in the kitchen on a sofa and a shake-down ? |
| 21 | There is as yet little evidence that some effects which appear to be important in the laboratory can be demonstrated in more applied settings , for example the interaction between retention interval and arousal , and individual differences in the effects of arousal on memory . |
| 22 | The means-tested payment for home helps meant that some clients who needed such help were refusing it because they had to pay for it . |
| 23 | Moreover , the data from the unlinked anonymous survey shows that some men who knew they were infected with HIV-1 still acquired acute sexually transmitted diseases . |
| 24 | Critics of the administration 's policy claimed that some Haitians who had fled the country a second time , after being repatriated in 1991 , had given evidence of persecution in interviews to UN officials . |
| 25 | I was just that some nights I waken up and you know you can actually hear your heart . |
| 26 | This view has since been altered to contend that the struggle for education is part of the struggle for freedom and that some demands which affect the education system should be fought for while apartheid is still in place . |
| 27 | She was a hard worker , and I call myself a hard worker and I know that some days I push myself too hard and my mother 's done that all her life . |
| 28 | It seemed clear , though , that some courses which should have been entered in this section ( referred to in responses to earlier questions , e.g. 1.6 ) were not listed here , so these are almost certainly under-estimates . |