Example sentences of "was [noun] [prep] some [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was another landing here , and more stairs ; there was noise of some kind from down below . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | That he had not destroyed the books , but merely locked them away , was testament to some ambiguity in him , however . |
| 4 | Finally , and perhaps most dangerously , became to believe that his restoration was evidence of some sort of divinely inspired relationship between him and the Iranian people . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |