Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] [prep] some [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consequently it was bitterly opposed by some of the bishops . |
| 2 | The MINSE approach requires a detailed investigation which moves beyond the intuition of the analyst , and can therefore only be accurate with a continual input of local expertise which was obviously missing during some of the phases of the research project . |
| 3 | Walahfrid Strabo , a monk of Reichenau in Alemannia who had spent the years since 825 at the great monastic school of Fulda , was already known to some of the court clergy . |
| 4 | distinction between attempting to respond on the basis of behaviour , or a response based on whether or not there 's a victim , can carry you a certain way , but I was just thinking of some of the discussions we 've had in college recently about the sort of behaviour with which we feel uncomfortable , and I have to say that sometimes it would be difficult to identify a given victim or , you know , a group of given victims . |
| 5 | I was just looking at some of the prices they want for the property . |
| 6 | Keiki accepted this fait accompli and withdrew towards Osaka , but this acquiescence was not supported by some of his followers , who attempted to occupy Kyoto and clashed with troops mainly from Satsuma and Choshú0 fighting as the ‘ imperial army ’ . |
| 7 | Full use of the books was not made in some of the stricter districts of the Highlands where , it is recorded , some teachers refused to read fiction to their pupils because it was " untrue . " |
| 8 | Further , an organisation may interpret its treaty in a broad manner that was not anticipated by some of its members , or is even contrary to their expectations . |
| 9 | Its arguments may raise a smile now , but it came from an experienced pastor to an intelligent and dedicated missionary , and was clearly directed to some of the major preoccupations of Germanic and other pagans . |
| 10 | Polanski was also known to some of the Hollywood crowd through its inter-connection with the swingers of London and the skiing crowd who populated Gstaad and Aspen , notably his friendship of one of the men at the hub of the English scene , Victor Lownes , the cool , urbane and towering figure whom Hugh Hefner had appointed vice president of Playboy International and despatched to London to oversee the new playboy Club in Park Lane . |
| 11 | As well as admiring a variety of modern and more traditional pieces , the Queen met many of the sculptors and was also introduced to some of the people who had worked behind the scenes to make it all happen . |
| 12 | One of his discoveries was originally thought by some to be wrong as no one was able to replicate it for nearly two years ; however , Fleischmann was eventually proved to be correct . |
| 13 | We held an annual AGM in conjunction with a dinner dance , usually at the Post House Hotel , Southampton , which rapidly grew to the social event of the year and was even attended by some of our upper echelons at HQ . |
| 14 | Certainly pictorial Futurism owed a great deal to Cubism and was even considered by some to be , like Orphism , an off-shoot of it , although its development was exactly the converse of that of Orphism . |
| 15 | The stance most widely adopted by politicians , demographers , and economists was closely related to some of the eugenist arguments of the inter-war years : namely that the ageing of the population would create an unbalanced ratio of workers to dependents , with severe social and economic consequences . |
| 16 | And before long Mala was actually responding to some of my witticisms with that flashing smile which alters her from being pretty in to being staggeringly beautiful . |
| 17 | Before we erm before I came out today I was actually talking to some of the staff at Pembroke College and mindful of coming on her I thought I 'd just ask them what they thought |