Example sentences of "[ex0] [was/were] [noun] [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have seen earlier how lodgers provided another means of support for older householders : and there were lodgers in some childhood homes too . |
| 2 | There were reports of some units already having transferred allegiance to Ukraine , including the 48th division , withdrawn from Czechoslovakia in 1990 , which had disobeyed orders of Sept. 10 to move to the Caucasus . |
| 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 | Certainly , there were texts of some plays printed and obviously plays were originally written in some sense . |
| 5 | There were indications of some changes in the characteristics of Wirral 's heroin users between 1984 and 1986 , such as the higher proportion of females . |
| 6 | Naturally there were protests from some ILEA teachers of languages , history , geography , home economics and physical education that their subjects were not to be made compulsory in the fourth and fifth years : such subjects , it was held , were thereby accorded a lower status . |
| 7 | You can very often er for instance at Cheshire very often I mean there were sort of some people 's wives would like to do it . |
| 8 | That is , there was evidence of some compensation , partly due to a shorter time to the onset of REM sleep . |
| 9 | There was surprise in some quarters at the decision taken by SCOTVEC 's Education Policy Committee to agree in principle to the introduction of ‘ named awards ’ involving National Certificate and other modules . |
| 10 | There was another landing here , and more stairs ; there was noise of some kind from down below . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | There was mention of some art history work , a few articles for various journals and a cataloguing job for one of the museums but it was clear that for Maidstone these were of little importance and did not really qualify for the title of job . |
| 13 | She was told that there was slippage of some support among backbenchers ; that the 1922 Executive was divided , with some preferring a wider choice in the second round ; and that there was some disquiet in the Cabinet . |
| 14 | There was talk of some grandeur in the English past and some evidence of middle-class money which did not come to the aid of Philip . |