Example sentences of "[was/were] [noun] [prep] some [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sacrifice of TWW and the merger of ABC and Rediffusion into Thames were acts of some courage and panache , in which the ebullient personality of ITA chairman , Lord Hill , a former broadcasting star as the Radio Doctor in the 1940s and a cabinet minister under Harold Macmillan , were an important factor . |
| 2 | The fourteen Area Board chairmen were men of some seniority and experience . |
| 3 | Though there were complaints in some places that 1 January 1913 came and went with no settlement in sight and though seamen on weekly boats in Hull were aggrieved at receiving less than their colleagues elsewhere , 2s.6d increases on weekly wages and 10s on monthly were fairly readily conceded , more in some places . |
| 4 | The hut was home to some lizards and to the island 's one taxi driver who had sequestered it as his office and gasoline store . |
| 5 | There was concern in some quarters that the resort to force would reduce the prospect of the peaceful resolution of subsequent international disputes by means of economic sanctions . |
| 6 | But now it was time for some wheeling and dealing . |