Example sentences of "[vb past] to be [verb] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | I pretended to be looking at some papers when the door opened and Grace Hinkle ushered in a sophisticated-looking female of about twenty-eight . |
| 2 | The sum , substantially in excess of estimates by the country 's central bank which had recently estimated borrowing to pay for war costs at around $10,000 million [ see also pp. 37987 ; 38166 ; 38212 ] , was expected to cover current expenditure reported to be running at some $20,000 million . |
| 3 | In the 1960s , cloze procedure came to be seen by some researchers as the answer to many of the problems of validly measuring text difficulty . |
| 4 | It is no new thing for pushing tradesmen occasionally to send unsolicited goods to persons in the hope of making a sale , but this practice developed to the extent that it came to be regarded in some quarters as a serious social problem . |
| 5 | So deep-rooted were his various obsessions and so pronounced his self-importance that he came to be regarded in some quarters as not merely an individualist but something of a crank . |
| 6 | Indeed , the Spanish Civil War came to be viewed by some as the preface to the Second World War . |
| 7 | The body itself was late medieval , not wrapped in cerecloth but in a long linen shift with a narrow hem of lace ; the features were discernible , though bald , whilst the ‘ inside of the body seemed to be filled with some substance which rendered it very hard . ’ |
| 8 | Goodness knows what was happening to her , but she seemed to be trapped in some thick mental fog . |
| 9 | Melford , now he had tasted blood , seemed to be revelling in some private joke . |
| 10 | Furthermore , the company also seemed to be reneging on some of the assurances given to placate Scottish interests during the takeover battle . |
| 11 | His heart seemed to be beating in some huge dry place an echoing cavern . |
| 12 | In Sweden secrétaires de commission began to be appointed to some missions in foreign capitals from 1669 onwards , mainly it seems to provide for greater continuity in the event of the death or recall of the head of the mission . |
| 13 | He reports a significant increase in interest since private clients began to be deserted by some of the big City brokers . |
| 14 | All we have is a process of trial and error which , essentially , consists in seeing how well a particular indicator correlates with other indicators of the same concept and with other indicators of concepts presumed to be related in some causal connection . |
| 15 | He appeared to be searching for some key document . |
| 16 | Then she realised that they were n't employees of OBEX and that they all appeared to be handicapped in some way . |
| 17 | The surveys also show that older people continued to be found in some of the very worst housing . |
| 18 | Moreover she had the real comfort of knowing that her community appreciated what she was doing ; more , her life excited such admiration that after her death the interment had to be delayed for some days for fear of riots . |
| 19 | ‘ We decided Mervyn 's tremendous contribution — one of imagination and professionalism — over the six years he was secretary had to be acknowledged in some way . |
| 20 | Spaces had to be left for some animals to be added as and when I found them . |
| 21 | The system was unwieldy , since grant applications had to be submitted for some three hundred individual services , and there were problems in the calculations of costs and hence of the appropriate subsidy ( Joy 1973 : 127–31 ; Parker 1978 : 7 ) . |
| 22 | He he 's arguing I think on a basis of , of the experience of the past few years that the situation now in China was a , was a rather variable one , that land reform had proceeded at different rates in different areas and because areas where different that had to be taken into account and Mao explicitly was going back to the idea that in the newly liberated areas the policy would be one of rent reduction , interest rate reduction and that rent and interest rate reduction had to be established for some time until the position had consolidated around rent reduction , around interest rate reduction and once that had happened you would then be able to go into land reform itself . |
| 23 | Once at sea level , smooth soapstone slabs had to be traversed for some distance to reach the cliff . |
| 24 | She sank back into her extremely comfortable seat and , as Ace picked up a magazine to read , undid her attaché case and took out , it had to be admitted with some deliberate ostentation , notes on high-tech fuel consumption . |
| 25 | It is however impossible to believe that among these — bearing in mind that each applicant had to be sponsored by some reputable person — there were , as some claimed , barbers , man-milliners , tailors , shoemakers , mercers , mutton pie men , rat catchers , razor-strop makers , razor grinders , a druggist 's porter , insolvent debtors , and in general , the out-at-elbow fraternity . |
| 26 | In fact , the country visit had to be postponed for some time , because , although he had promised himself some months ' freedom from engagements , he found himself , as usual , saddled with responsibilities . |