Example sentences of "there [vb past] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the outset , Nigeria and Iran sought quota improvements and in the late 1980s there arose some aggrieved discussion of the UAE 's insistence on setting its own unilateral quota ( 1.5 million as against the 0.948 set by the Vienna conference in 1987 ) and vehement debate with both Iraq and Iran , neither of which was willing to accept a lower quota than the other 's . |
| 2 | Not only was a large proportion of Communist Party membership unemployed but it was in the shattered heavy industrial areas that there seemed some possibility of gaining support in the " revolutionary " phase through which the Party was passing . |
| 3 | There followed some weeks of relative quiet over the island , with only desultory engagements , many of which can be listed briefly : On 17th. an unidentified Hurricane pilot claimed a Bf110 damaged ; a Bf110C of I/NJG 3 force-landed in the sea off Malta , Fw . |
| 4 | Certainly Frankenstein had gone away to study — to Ingoldstadt , I now knew — and there spent some years researching into the nature of life . |
| 5 | Thanks in part to the inventive energy of Thomas Cromwell and the long , tireless service of the Cecils , there developed some sort of working tradition ; but there was little of the bureaucratic foundation which alone could provide continuity and organization . |
| 6 | Her mood was back to normal , although there remained some problems over her finances , and the legal situation was not entirely sorted out . |
| 7 | If only there remained some sort of plan of the former layout ; but it could hardly have been anticipated when the conversion was begun that a modern miller would be the buyer , who proposed to grind not corn but electricity . |
| 8 | When we examined Friedman 's demolition of the idea of a stable trade off between inflation and unemployment , we noted how there remained some scope for policy activism . |