Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] be [verb] in some " in BNC.

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1 In the year since the Webster ruling invited states to pass new restricts against abortion , more than 300 bills had been formulated in some 40 states .
2 Information Centres had been established in some twenty places .
3 All of his staff had been damaged in some way , but for those who were shy , or clever enough to hide themselves from Lennon 's advance .
4 Premium rises had been achieved in some areas , but other sectors had been very competitive .
5 It came from Tony Morrell , the Hartlepool-based athlete who has been preferred to Cram in the 1500 metres and whose fitness had been queried in some quarters .
6 Coloni received a message to say his mother had been injured in some sort of political disturbance in Valparaíso , so instead of cooking for us , he decided to go home .
7 The refugees also claimed that water and electricity supplies had been cut in some parts of Kuwait City but not in others .
8 After a while he simply lay there , numb , half conscious , his hands making hopeless little passes in the air , until Ellwood stopped , suddenly , his arms raised , as if a connection had been broken in some terrible machine .
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