Example sentences of "[num] [vb past] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , both before and after amendment the matters of complaint in Schedule 12 embraced some only of the services a society was authorised to provide and omitted both surveys and valuations of land and land services . |
| 2 | A sampling programme carried out in the Coins and Medals Department in 1979 checked some 10,000 of the estimated 600,000 objects in the collections . |
| 3 | Chapter 7 described some of the reasons which made Aplysia a strategic choice for researching the neurobiology of certain basic forms of memory formation . |
| 4 | The petition was not successful but a deputation to Sir James Graham , Home Secretary , in April 1842 received some encouragement and an amended petition and a draft of a Charter of Incorporation was submitted to him on 24 March 1843 . |
| 5 | A previous rights issue in 1991 raised some £25 million and helped the company buy up development land at bargain prices . |
| 6 | Innocent III spent some months outside Rome , but this did not stop him doing justice . |
| 7 | The ‘ mad summer ’ of 1874 saw some 2,000–3,000 young radicals leave the cities and ‘ go to the people ’ . |
| 8 | The inter-censal decade 1961–71 saw some very heavy losses : Liverpool recorded a population loss of 18.2 per cent of its population in the 1960s , Manchester 17.9 per cent , Newcastle upon Tyne 17.6 per cent and Birmingham 8.6 per cent — much higher than the losses of the 1950s . |
| 9 | By contrast , the English seem to have had fewer ships at this period , although Edward III had some royal ships , and vessels were built for largely defensive purposes . |
| 10 | The abolition of the wager of law in 1833 caused some revival in detinue but in view of the expansion of conversion , detinue only really remained necessary where the defendant was unable to redeliver the goods . |
| 11 | Almost all the new stations opened in the London suburban area after 1920 had some form of subsidy from the developers . |
| 12 | The Rent ( Agriculture ) Act 1976 made some attempts to introduce greater security of tenure for tied cottagers . |
| 13 | Thus the Sino-Indian border disputes which led to a localized war in 1962 brought some joint Anglo-American action to try to deter China from further military action , and especially from air attacks on Indian cities . |
| 14 | The 1970s saw some highly productive ‘ urban ’ work using a Weberian perspective , Pahl providing the main stimulus for this approach . |
| 15 | Japan also encourages domestic mining with government grants and loans that in the late 1970s totalled some £5 million annually . |
| 16 | The Society in 1922 had some sixty thousand members belonging to about seven hundred and fifty lodges , including twenty-two for the deaf , who , it turned out , proved an exceptionally good risk . |
| 17 | In a 1987 survey , though , 17% of those under 25 claimed some knowledge of Gaelic . |
| 18 | Also me feelings go to my english friends today — i watched some 30 mins of highlights on TV and you were not ex. lucky — Ronald Koeman ( correct spelling , guys ! ) should clearly have been sent off . |
| 19 | Section 7.2.1 examined some of the mechanics involved , in particular the relevance of elasticities in influencing the extent to which price changes impact on the value of exports and imports . |
| 20 | For example , the Patents Act 1977 went some way towards achieving compatibility , and the consolidation of moral rights in copyright law , which is a traditional European concept , reinforces the move towards European trading unity . |
| 21 | The accession of the new king , William IV , in June 1830 brought some slight relief , mainly because it was widely believed that His Majesty favoured the destruction of machinery and the payment of 2 shillings a day to men of the labouring classes . |
| 22 | The Protection from Eviction Act 1977 gave some additional protection since the courts could delay eviction . |
| 23 | Another example is I bought some apples , which does not stand in a contrary relationship with I bought some pears . |
| 24 | There is an increasing mood in favour of reversing the Supreme Court decision ( Roe vs Wade ) that in 1973 allowed some abortion . |
| 25 | Friday 's 273.68-point rally in the Nikkei Dow index to 18,559.71 brought some relief , lifted by hopes of a new morale-boosting emergency government package . |
| 26 | Chapter 1 offered some introductory remarks on the nature of social research and the role of theory , methods and data in the research process . |
| 27 | Four other MLs reached England — ML 8 made the passage on one engine and MLs 6 , 12 and 13 had some damage and casualties . |
| 28 | That of France , the greatest European State , did not again reach the level achieved in the War of the Spanish Succession , when in 1710 Louis XIV had some 360,000 soldiers at his disposal ; but most others grew . |
| 29 | The Building Societies Act 1986 removed some of the restrictions on lending by building societies . |
| 30 | The FA 1986 introduced some important changes . |