Example sentences of "it [was/were] [verb] [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rights and wrongs of it were debated for some time and the feeling seemed to be that the TCCB had come out of it in a worse light than Gatting ; as the Melbourne newspaper The Age put it , ‘ Gatting , caught rumour , bowled hypocrisy , 0 ’ . |
| 2 | Simon had n't inherited yet ; the house was entailed of course and as there was no direct male heir ( my being what I am ) it looked as if it were going to some cousin overseas , only later it became known that Mary had had a posthumous son : he 's still a minor — here 's another member of my family whom I have n't met , I seem to have an assortment . |
| 3 | It implies for example , it was created for some kind of purpose . |
| 4 | During the discussions of the draft Convention it was argued by some delegates that the Central Authority should have a double task , acting as a transmitting or forwarding agency as well as receiving requests from abroad , but their opinion did not prevail . |
| 5 | The University denied it was hoping for some form of financial benefit from the visit . |
| 6 | It was to last for some months yet . |
| 7 | And even if a structural , timber can be dated , there is always the possibility that it was stored for some time between being felled and being used , or even that it was re-used timber salvaged from an earlier building . |
| 8 | Initial excavations indicate that it was related in some way to the others , but had no buildings within the rampart . |
| 9 | Of course , it was written to some girlfriend or other in England . |
| 10 | It was written in some exasperation by Frederick Midgeod as a result of his experiences presumably with a Model T Ford during his time in what was the Gold Coast and is now Ghana . |
| 11 | It was made from some sort of high explosive , but we do n't know what type . |
| 12 | In the discussions of the mid-1970s it was hoped in some institutions that this step might be the forerunner of others involving greater delegation of powers . |
| 13 | Acts I and III were found in 1984 but the crucial second act was missing until 1988 when it was discovered amongst some rubbish in the basement in a packet labelled ‘ Ballet — no use ’ . |
| 14 | Thus , it does not apply where the evidence establishes the existence of a collateral contract ; where it can be shown that the document was not intended as a complete record of the contract terms ; where its existence or operation was dependent upon some prior unexpected stipulation ; or where it was procured by some illegality or misrepresentation . |
| 15 | The market might be held several days a week , and if , like the great Cotswold wood marts at Cirencester , Tetbury and so forth , it was noted for some speciality , business might be attracted from well outside the five-mile radius considered reasonable for day-to-day requirements in the Middle Ages . |
| 16 | It went on to sell four million copies around the world , the lion 's share , it was noted with some satisfaction within Virgin , in territories where Virgin had their own label . |
| 17 | It was felt by some members , the secretary told me , that as I now had a residence in Edinburgh , I ought to become a fully paid-up member . |
| 18 | It was felt by some students that areas of the ‘ Enterprise ’ component may have been downplayed somewhat if there was no visible link between the ‘ content ’ and assessment ; however , more students expressed the view that they would scrutinise the Enterprise component of future optional and elective modules before selection . |
| 19 | When village tribunals were first established it was felt by some officials that they would reduce the power of headmen . |
| 20 | It was greeted with some fury : ‘ It 's the beginning of a war , ’ said Fernand Daoust of the Quebec Federation of Labour . |
| 21 | There is only one ‘ edition ’ of The Fairy Queen , which was issued first in 1692 — in May , when the show opened ( this is clear from Tonson 's advertisement in The London Gazette ) ; it was re-issued at some time in 1693 , with the modifications already described — a new title-page , a new Act 1 , and two new songs on single-leaf inserts later in the book . |
| 22 | In his own words he was seeking to get immigration control on a basis where it was firm but where it was administered with some degree of compassion for the individual case ’ . |
| 23 | It was supplemented to some extent by the druzhinii ( volunteer popular detachments ) , formed in 1959 . |
| 24 | True , it was working in some areas at that time . |