Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [verb] some [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The murder was committed some time between twelve and three . |
| 2 | The intention was to gain some insight into ‘ the whole curriculum at operational level ’ . |
| 3 | The data suggests that the direct effect of the crash was to wipe some 10% off the sterling value of wealth in the last quarter ( this does not include indirect effects on assets other than equities ) . |
| 4 | On my way back from Ents Committee last week , erm the internal mail bloke was delivering some gear to computer services , and he left the back of the post van open . |
| 5 | I was pressed with an argument that the assignees were not customers of B.C.C.I. The purpose of the Act was to provide some protection for persons who had chosen to become customers of the bank and who were accepted by the bank as customers . |
| 6 | This became the object of pilgrimage until the shrine was destroyed some time in the 16th century . |
| 7 | He explained that once that process was begun some parts of THORP would no longer be accessible . |
| 8 | The Cabinet already suspected that U Saw was planning some act of retaliation ( he resigned on returning from London and did not attempt to contest the election ) . |
| 9 | ‘ We were all set to come to Czechoslovakia for her to see you and for us then to take a holiday while her husband was doing some work in America . |
| 10 | Peace of mind when the husband was working some distance from the farm could be of great importance . |
| 11 | As we rode on and emerged into open country a mist was hanging some feet above the ground , as if suspended by a conjuror . |
| 12 | If the centre was given some notice of the team 's arrival , and if the team were lead by a SCOTVEC officer , then not only would the profile of subject assessment be raised but the centre could use the presence of so many SCOTVEC staff in a positive way for staff development purposes . |
| 13 | The town hall 's model was showing some signs of age and beginning to look a little dated . |
| 14 | At least one MP was taking some solace from the economic medicine . |
| 15 | And there is no one single picture of English history which is absolutely right , in other words there are different interpretations of almost everything that matters in history , but what I wanted to try to do in that social history was to give some account of England 's past which was meaningful to people living in the late erm twentieth century . |
| 16 | The film was made some months before the establishment of the Gay Liberation Front , and the passage in the novel where Ben describes his adventures on the road to shock his dad was omitted from the screenplay . |
| 17 | The legislation makes it clear that peasant migration was no new phenomenon , only that the new bout produced by Viking activity was causing some headaches for landlords . |
| 18 | Her mission was to request some drawings from him for the opening show of her London gallery , Guggenheim Jeune . |
| 19 | The Parti Islam SeMalaysia ( PAS ) increased its vote , and , according to the Far Eastern Economic Review of March 19 , 1992 , its continuing influence in the Malay-dominated north was worrying some members of the United Malays National Organization ( UMNO ) , the chief component of the BN . |
| 20 | The pressure which had been building up all weekend was nearing some sort of explosion . |
| 21 | We knew it never got submerged by the tide and our idea was to take some photographs of a full moon rising over Widemouth . |
| 22 | The situation was complicated by the fact that a further United Kingdom election was expected some time during the autumn . |
| 23 | Billy thinks the snake was stolen some time between 11.30am and 3pm yesterday and anyone with any information should contact their nearest RUC station . |
| 24 | In the classic studies of smoking , such as those by Doll and Peto , the overall risk of premature death was raised some 70% in cigarette smokers compared with nonsmokers . |
| 25 | The house was built some time in the second half of the 12C or beginning of the 13C . |
| 26 | The purpose of this section was to shed some light on the explicit training of specialist language teachers . |
| 27 | The cave was formed some time during the early part of the Pleistocene , over one million years ago , and it became filled with sediment during the middle Pleistocene approximately 350 to 400 thousand years ago . |
| 28 | An official bulletin was expected some time after the consultation . |
| 29 | The final task was to construct some sort of cover to prevent the fish from jumping out . |