Example sentences of "[conj] some [noun pl] [verb] [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stoddart quotes a great number of opinions on this subject : it seems that some authorities think that they may have been caused by a fall in sea level which meant that the reef flat became a barrier to water movement , so that surf became channelled down the outer edge of the algal ridge as it returned to the sea ; alternatively the spur and groove system may be the most effective form of baffle for dissipating wave energy and is caused by reef-building corals forming the spurs — the grooves , once formed , may of course be accentuated by scouring . |
| 2 | And as to dictatorships — in which he says two people in every 100 are interested in politics as opposed to three in a hundred in a democracy — you could argue that some dictatorships succeeded because they appealed to primitive instincts in people who were not interested in politics . |
| 3 | It must be pointed out that some interviewees stated that they ‘ abused ’ their GPs , for example , ‘ hitting ’ their GP for methadone when there was a ‘ drought ’ of heroin . |
| 4 | Having too many … goods in stock may mean that some items deteriorate before they can be sold . |
| 5 | Although some skins claimed that they were so hard that they did not need to use weapons , and there was no standard personal armament like the cut-throat razors of the teds or the bicycle chains of the grebos , a variety of weapons were used at football matches and other fights . |
| 6 | Consider the facts : there are about 3,000 architects in Scotland ; workloads have declined by as much as 60 per cent ; and some firms report that they are only half the size they were just two years ago . |
| 7 | Urban alienation is seen as a risk to the State and some projects succeed because they are sold on this fear that no response could endanger the State 's stability . |
| 8 | Such vaccines are less likely to be toxic than a whole virus vaccine but some researchers believe that they are also less likely to work . |
| 9 | The disagreements ostensibly related to disputes involving large communications contracts , but some commentators claimed that they reflected Chatichai 's concern over the growing influence of the powerful Interior Minister , Banharn Silpa-Archa . |
| 10 | But some investigators claim that they have taught them to use systems approaching human language in their versatility and complexity . |
| 11 | Such policy appears to place political beliefs above the concept of needs when some individuals demonstrate that they can not flourish educationally in an integrated environment . |