Example sentences of "[that] some of the " in BNC.

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1 It is in this arena that some of the fiercest intellectual fighting about art is taking place , though the contests range wider than the visual arts to politics and economics .
2 In the well-defined types , such as yew , zebrano and walnut , grain is the dominant visual feature and it is in this group that some of the effects most characteristic of good marquetry can be achieved .
3 This is still true when he says that some of the respondents lacked the emotional maturity to respond adequately to poetry .
4 Certainly in recent years Pound 's interest in mystery-cults has been more than antiquarian ; in ‘ was Erigena ours ? ’ he asks whether the philosopher Scotus Erigena was one of the Eleusinian brotherhood , and ‘ ours ’ can be given full weight — Noel Stock goes so far as to claim ( op. cit. p.22 ) that some of the obscurity of these later Cantos is deliberate and arcane — ‘ he writes about them as an initiate in words that are both ‘ published and not published ’ … ’ .
5 We may even feel , as certainly I do , that some of the later cantos are of such a nature that it 's hard to conceive in any age of a way of encountering them other than the way we 're here embarked upon .
6 And there were reports yesterday that some of the major clients have not taken the news of the merger well .
7 ‘ We accept that some of the gypsies , the traditional travellers , do not want to be settled and wish to remain mobile .
8 It appeared last night that some of the staff entitled to 10 to 15 per cent of the shares might not take them up , but all the key board members will , thus ensuring the success of the scheme .
9 They are aware of the fact that some of the greatest of their own artists — Hokusai , for instance , and Hiroshige — made print-making a primary creating medium .
10 He finished the service by announcing tersely that some of the large number of people jailed during the night had been released .
11 The task force was set up after detectives discovered that some of the money had been used to finance drugs and property dealing in the United States and even invested in London 's Docklands , realising millions of pounds in profits .
12 Readers may still find , as I do , that some of the economic debate is unintelligible .
13 In a heady essay written over thirty years ago , Giorgio de Santillana argued that some of the key ideas of the Scientific Renaissance were to be traced to developments in the arts .
14 Eventually , it was recognised that some of the results of the laissez-faire mentality could pose a threat to social stability and the health of rich and poor alike .
15 It was also clear that some of the new occupants needed studios with specific qualities .
16 And , beyond that , we ought to see that some of the latest European music is only ‘ fascistic ’ in ways that are almost the opposite of male triumpalism .
17 Smith said that some of the reporters had been drinking before getting down to the job of covering the fight ; Hearn is considering litigation .
18 As these books are supposed to be read by adults to children , I do n't think it matters that some of the jokes are probably lost on four year olds .
19 ( Not least is Cold Comfort Farm to be treasured for the fact that an American literary critic took it straight , commenting that some of the characters were overdrawn . )
20 But the fourth is that some of the financing was priced too low — for revealing reasons .
21 Rumours are circulating that some of the cast will be killed off , and that Spock will get married .
22 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 .
23 ‘ The main point is that some of the advisory things have become law , ’ says the spokesman .
24 So wide does the Palace cast its net when it comes to official entertaining that some of the invitees can find their fellow-guests a real let-down .
25 So , it is unsurprising that some of the most important writing on horsemanship dates from this era .
26 She had not realised that some of the horses had been ‘ jazzed up ’ and made a bit more fearful or anxious , so that the horse had extended its top lip through tension .
27 If there was a drawback to this grand strategy , it is that some of the gramophone recordings in recent years have lacked the startling intensity and insights of the theatre performances they have helped to prepare .
28 The novelist , William Hale White , felt that some of the men he had known before being expelled from a Congregational theological college ‘ would have had more genuine lives if they had stood behind counters or learned some craft than they ever had in the ministry ’ .
29 Yet the same writer lamented that some of the first students ‘ in many cases alienated the more thoughtful minds from the denomination ’ .
30 The inquiries of Crown agents had revealed that some of the royal forests , such as Morfe , had become valueless as hunting-grounds through long neglect .
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