Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb past] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British Parapsychological Association received some bad news during their 1987 convention at the same university . |
| 2 | Torquay Deaf Club suffered some minor damage , but nothing which could not be easily repaired . |
| 3 | At its best , this genre produced some of the extended song-cycles of Pink Floyd but at the other extreme were dozens of overblown ‘ concept albums ’ dealing with elves or spaceships and played on synthesizers and other electronic equipment . |
| 4 | 261 Squadron received some welcome reinforcements next day when five Hurricanes flew in from Egypt , led by two 148 Squadron Wellingtons , which carried two additional fighter pilots as passengers . |
| 5 | The commercial ethic meant some deterioration in standards , while the cutbacks in the Overseas News department , one of the glories of Bush House , caused much dismay in the public communications world . |
| 6 | This defence caused some difficulty for the Court of Appeal when two cases raised it in quick succession in the summer and autumn of 1988 . |
| 7 | And wandering the rolling green slopes of the peeling Pally 's 196-acre park gave some sense of exuberant distance over the rituals of lawn-mowing , car-polishing and prudent scurryings among the packed semis below . |
| 8 | She used to ring Otto at his office , rather as if she felt this experience had some professional interest to Otto . |
| 9 | It is true that the Whigs did their best to exploit the Jacobite " bogey " , and their demands for an oath requiring peers , MPs and office-holders to abjure allegiance to James II and then the Old Pretender caused some embarrassment to those Tories who had only been prepared to recognise William as de facto King . |
| 10 | In 1986 the English YHA did some market research , learnt some painful truths and embarked on a modernisation programme unhandily titled ‘ The Product Development Marketing Plan ’ . |
| 11 | No , as Geoff Cooke admitted , ‘ this side had some flaws . ’ |
| 12 | Loud music ‘ can give a savage and damaging pounding to the ears ’ , sometimes for life said Jo Hazelby of the British Tinnitus Association said Some 200 people become sufferers from tinnitus — a painful ringing in the ears — every day . |
| 13 | Edgar wicket keeper , innkeeper and redoubtable raconteur confided some time after midnight that to help run in his pain-free new hip joint he 'd taken an early morning paper round in Aycliffe village . |
| 14 | This spectre anchored some 100 yards away , a small mysterious vessel that prompted Dudley Clarke — as such uncertainties would concern future raiders — to move quietly to the bow and warn the men ashore . |
| 15 | Maybe this question had some relevance to the fact that there was a large space vacant before the stage — or did the fish smell like fish ? |
| 16 | There is evidence that this tactic had some effect in marginal seats and , indeed , made the overall result far better for Labour than it would have been had people not voted tactically . |
| 17 | This work demonstrated some of the special problems which have to be solved to design good GUIs for GIS : thus , an icon of a single pine tree caused some confusion when presented to a forester since he could not identify its species ! |
| 18 | The British Museum acquired some of these pieces knowingly , as examples of modern fakes , and by examining the pieces in the scanning electron microscope ( see glossary ) using microanalysis and digital-mapping techniques it has been possible to plot the concentration of the cadmium over the soldered surfaces . |
| 19 | By the 1980s the population of foreign nationality numbered some 4 millions and was strongly concentrated geographically and in particular sectors of the economy . |
| 20 | ‘ Opinion polls may or may not turn out to be right at a later stage ’ ; ‘ Local authorities exceeded projected expenditure by quite a margin ’ ; ‘ When this campaign started some weeks ago ’ ; ‘ I concede the point , for I have stated it many times in the past . ’ |
| 21 | In coastal areas social mobility led some lower castes and classes to assert themselves against headmen . |
| 22 | This process enabled some to see a simpler method ( e.g. pupil 1 ) . |
| 23 | This process used some novel inorganic chemistry developed in this country , in Italy and in the US during the late 1950s . |
| 24 | We might suppose that this universal process played some part in the attraction of the Free Presbyterian Church . |
| 25 | This query took some time to reach Cedric . |
| 26 | This point had some importance because , in Gaitskell 's absence in America , there was an attempt by Griffiths , the Deputy Leader , to object to the course which had been adopted . |
| 27 | In practice this aim meant some form of relaxation or simplification of the validation procedure in cases where college development justified it . |
| 28 | Altogether just under half ( 48% ) of the 3- and 4-year-old population received some education at school , mostly on a part-time basis ( Government Statistical Service , 1989 , p. iv and Table 16 ) . |
| 29 | My hon. Friend caused some agitation on the Government Front Bench when he quite fairly referred to the Government 's policy of denying information by diverting answers through the agencies . |
| 30 | However , this relationship concealed some significant differences between subjects , being stronger for science subjects . |