Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [vb infin] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some 60,000 people in Srebrenica , in eastern Bosnia , have received no aid at all by road since December , though the US air force did drop some supplies by parachute into the area on Saturday night . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , the parties did undergo some transformation as they adapted to a changing political climate . |
| 3 | His objection to these studies was that the passages these investigators used made very little sense unless subjects did have some prior knowledge of their content . |
| 4 | But the north west and the west coast did get some sunny spells , while the rest of the country had to contend with some patchy rain . |
| 5 | At about this time Mr. Tee did have some connection with Winchester , but the extent of that connection and what was to remain of it are matters in dispute between the parties . |
| 6 | However , the South African presidential delegation did have some informal meetings with members of the caucus , of which some members wanted all US sanctions sustained until the fifth condition was met — repeal of the Group Areas Act and of the Population Registration Act . |
| 7 | The Boards ' lines of defence against this — replacement costs were hypothetical and difficult to estimate , tax complications might follow — read like a weary defence of the status quo , but the Ministry did in the end accept that their creation of special ad hoc depreciation reserves did go some way to meeting the point . |
| 8 | The Democrat-controlled House budget committee , therefore , had little opportunity to redraft the budget in a radical fashion , although overall its budget proposal did redirect some $13,0000 million of the spending embodied in the Bush plan . |
| 9 | … for all those unfortunate and aged people the institution of the poor law did provide some genuine relief , especially in small communities where the poor were personally known and acknowledged to have a legitimate claim on the assistance of their neighbours . |
| 10 | This definition was not carried forward into the later Acts , although both the Act of 1979 and the current Act did reproduce some of the provisions regarding depositors which were contained in the Act of 1963 . |
| 11 | But Euric did take some of the advice offered . |
| 12 | planning applications , erm the sort of locational aspects are important , the the existing policy in the structure plan did have some sort of control over the the number of jobs , but it 's as as David Potter has said , it 's been very difficult to monitor er the level of jobs being provided , and in practice it 's been really impossible to implement that aspect of of the policy . |
| 13 | None of this implies that even if such biological elements did play some role in explaining these institutions , the institutions would then be necessary or unchangeable — even if the explanation were true , this could still be a case in which becoming conscious of their rationale was a help in changing them . |
| 14 | Her poetry indicates that Leapor did have some friends before meeting Freemantle ; Octavia , for example , respected her enough to listen to her advice , even if she probably did not accept it . |
| 15 | Wilson did put some flesh on the bones in a television interview with Norman Hunt , only to have it torn off in strips by the venerable Bridges , long since retired but still a determined advocate of a unitary Treasury dominating economic policy from the centre . |
| 16 | Despite this , the Labour Group did persuade some schools to delay implementation of the L M S Initiative and I rather suspect that some of these schools regret this decision today . |
| 17 | Although the GHS did include some attitudinal questions , its emphasis was not primarily subjective . |
| 18 | Jackson did promise some attention to the matter but it seems that nothing was granted . |
| 19 | The new package did contain some measures to alleviate the economic cost of adjustment for the poor . |
| 20 | But these concepts did provide some women with categories of self-definition around which to mobilize , negotiate and occasionally disrupt and claim as their own . |
| 21 | ‘ The investors did commission some initial market research before they invested their money , ’ says former Institute president Mike Lickiss , who is currently ATV 's independent chairman . |
| 22 | In the event the opera came to nothing , although Mozart did write some of the music for a ballet entitled Les Petits Riens . |
| 23 | All they can do is to ensure that the decision-maker did have some reasonable grounds for his action . |
| 24 | If Zbo did rescue some of the earlier work , that may explain some of the muddle about the authenticated chronology of Modigliani 's work . |
| 25 | Nevertheless we accept that a new period in world communications did begin some time in the 1970S — involving technology , markets and policies . |
| 26 | The image of counter staff did need some polishing , in fact they had just put all their 1,300 people through a course teaching them ‘ how not to behave like Sharons and Traceys . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ So Ryan did have some uses . ’ |
| 28 | Weismann did offer some direct experimental evidence for the non-inheritance of acquired characters , and a great deal more is available today . |
| 29 | Our test tractor did have some difficulties in keeping the revs constant down at the 700–1,000rpm mark , but this was an early model and Same UK says the problem has been cured on current machines . |
| 30 | While the planned closure of both Digby and Exminster did mean some transitory inter-hospital transfers , both the chronic long-stay population and elderly people with dementia were considered to be better cared for in the community . |