Example sentences of "[adv] that [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wexford thought irritably , and he thought also of his own daughter who was making him scrape the bottom of his pocket so that at some future possible never-never time she might be able to smile without restraint before the cameras . |
| 2 | Like other benefits , it would be means tested so that for some the care would remain free . |
| 3 | They had bought a house in London so that for some time each year they could be in England , and now , with the baby almost due , Felipe had brought Maggie back . |
| 4 | At present , however , it still has limited availability so that for some patients sigmoidoscopy and barium enema examination provide an alternative . |
| 5 | The Third World as a term needs to retrieve this lost positive sense — even if today the political order has changed so that to some extent the various forms of Islamic fundamentalism have taken over the role of providing a direct alternative to First and Second World ideologies . |
| 6 | There was something pejorative about the word , so that to some atonal music meant ‘ non-music ’ , or at least something ugly and unpleasant . |
| 7 | The code in fact incorporates a degree of redundancy , so that in some cases as many as six different triplets code for the same amino acid . |
| 8 | The proportions of individuals with these alternative life styles differ between populations , so that in some areas of the world all individuals change sex . |
| 9 | Their relation is far closer than the arbitrary link between signifier and signified so that in some contexts ( irony or double entendre for example ) connotative meanings are part and parcel of the denoted meaning . |
| 10 | A further difficulty is that , within a particular culture or sub-culture , religion will have a socially defined image , so that in some circumstances respondents might feel they ought to say that they are more ‘ religious ’ than they really are , or , in other circumstances , that they are less so . |
| 11 | The trouble was that it did not necessarily sell well so that in some cases , such as that of the Burgundian lord , Guillaume de Châteauvillain , both he and his family , who acted as guarantors for the payment of 20,000 saluts which he had agreed to pay when captured by the French in 1430 , faced financial ruin . |
| 12 | In the birds , the brain has evolved so that in some groups it is comparable in size and complexity to that found in primates . |
| 13 | Waiting list initiatives have had exactly the same effect — because money was diverted to solve a politically sensitive problem , health care rationing priorities have been distorted so that in some cases cash rather than clinical need dictates who gets treated . |
| 14 | Interestingly , it cuts across several parishes , so that in some cases very small areas of parish land are isolated behind the massive earthworks of the dyke . |
| 15 | In both studies the patients were retested within a week of ending treatment , however , so that in some cases infection may have persisted . |
| 16 | As the cations are leached , the acidity rises and the phosphorus becomes re-locked with the iron and aluminium , so that in some cases at least , phosphorus is the first limiting nutrient . |
| 17 | The last syllable is usually quite prominent so that in some cases it could be said to have secondary stress . |
| 18 | 1.7 Example ( 26 ) shows us the second and less common relation contributing to the unfolding of syntactic structures , which we shall call equation , adopting the obvious symbol to represent it : ( 26 ) Fitzpatrick , our neighbour , used to plant potatoes the subject exemplifies the basic pattern [ E = E ] , ( as does the underlined portion of ( 22 ) ) ; in more exact terms , what we have in this subject phrase is : As we have just remarked , equational phrases are rarer than phrases involving qualification ; and , among them , there is a very large disproportion in favour of equation between E and E , rather than between P and P. Nevertheless , the latter can be found ; two examples would be : ( 28 ) what I need is a cup of strong , dark coffee for a fast , convenient trip to the city , take the Skytram This is clearly not to say that strong and dark , or fast and convenient , are equivalent at the type level ; only that on some particular occasion of use , as here , they may be regarded by speaker , or copywriter , as equivalent . |
| 19 | It declares that there is no law — no right flowing from past political decisions — apart from the law drawn from those decisions by techniques that are themselves matters of convention , and therefore that on some issues there is no law either way . |
| 20 | Did this mean therefore that in some way France had forfeited her position in Indochina and was she to be treated as an opponent rather than an ally ? |