Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] had some " in BNC.
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| 1 | haaland is a central defender and sundgot is an attacker ; both talented — though i value fat-frank far higher than sundgot. so two vikings at forest and three ( ! ) at oldham — so norway 's tally just keeps growing as the biggest contigent of non-english players — which is quite amazing — for years we had just the odd-player like aage hareide ( man city and norwich ) , einar aass ( nott forest — i imagine his english team-mates had some fun with his name : - ] ) and erik the viking at spurs but nowadays you need a computer to have control … |
| 2 | Political society formed a complex network of lordship and service , in which all but a few misfits had some place . |
| 3 | Political society formed a complex network of lordship and service , in which all but a few misfits had some place . |
| 4 | Just under one-third of part-time farmers had some formal training , with North Yorkshire providing the largest proportion . |
| 5 | Such grants had some advantages from the crown 's point of view , for in the event of the failure of direct heirs the lands and title would revert to the crown and would augment the resources of royal patronage , as happened with the Audley , Clinton and Ufford inheritances ; but the underlying reason for limiting descent to heirs male was the wish of the nobility to preserve the integrity of their inheritances and to ensure that the title descended with the land . |
| 6 | The entrances led into passageways that followed more or less devious routes towards the Central Court ; it may be that the twists and turns of these passages had some magico-religious significance . |
| 7 | Interestingly , five of these infants had some unusual perinatal features . |
| 8 | Other papers in the Public Records Office showed the misgivings of the naval staff about the two incidents , for by now the Germans had found the dead soldiers , and there were fears of reprisals against any British submarine crews subsequently captured — indeed it may be that these events had some bearing on the subsequent shootings of British commandos captured in that area . |
| 9 | All authorities had some sort of proposal on paper by that year , derived in part from the regional advisory reports of earlier years . |
| 10 | When you think about it the ancient Greeks had some pretty good ideas . |
| 11 | This time the S.M.E.T. was more lucky , as the London United tramways had some in store . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , we can conclude that many of the megalithic monuments had some sort of astronomical import ( and this includes some aspects of the Egyptian Pyramids ) ; as to their religious meaning we can only guess . |
| 13 | Evelyn Goldsmith 's granddaughter at two-and-a-half years had some difficulty with the convention of ‘ frozen action ’ , the frozen moment . |
| 14 | Between the ages of 65 and 69 , 37 per cent of lone women and 62 per cent of lone men had some sort of occupational pension . |
| 15 | Better still was the situation for Congregationalists where seven out of every ten men had some form of higher education . |
| 16 | He struggled with the notion that all these loose buttons had some connection . |
| 17 | Using transactions data for the MMI for 1986 , Swinnerton , Curcio and Bennett ( 1988 ) found that the change in futures prices over the last five minutes had some predictive power for the change in the index over the next five minutes . |
| 18 | If one of them succumbed to the temptation to defect , it would very probably end up with fewer points than 600 because of retaliation by the other player ( most of the submitted strategies had some kind of retaliatory behaviour built into them ) . |
| 19 | If one of them succumbed to the temptation to defect , it would very probably end up with fewer points than 600 because of retaliation by the other player ( most of the submitted strategies had some kind of retaliatory behaviour built into them ) . |
| 20 | There is little doubt that his outspoken views had some effect on the students , and he was a convenient ‘ scapegoat ’ for the authorities to blame for the disturbances . |
| 21 | We can assume that the Norse invasions of the later ninth and tenth centuries had some influence on the more vulnerable coastal churches , but there was nothing like the disruption which drove many northern bishoprics southwards for over a century . |
| 22 | Both Parties had some 6,000 members in 1934 , but the Communists were on the increase , while the ILP was declining , in financial difficulties and riddled with unofficial groups , two of them directly encouraged by the Communist Party . |
| 23 | Most countries had some welfare system in place , more so in some ( such as Germany ) than others ; the United States had a relatively poorly-developed system . |
| 24 | I had become something of an expert in the leisure market , and to many of the institutional buyers had some spurious extra authority simply because I could hit a golf ball further and straighter than they could . |
| 25 | Both teams had some near misses and the score could have gone either way . |
| 26 | At first it was men who were not allowed into the house and although this position resulted in a lot of criticism and ridicule , most feminists had some sympathy so long as we did n't seriously advocate separatism for all women . |
| 27 | Working-class Protestants had some material advantages over their Catholic competitors and enjoyed preferential treatment in housing and local government employment but these advantages were sometimes marginal and were not often felt to be considerable advantages because the Protestants did not sit down to statistical comparisons of their standards of living with the opportunities of Catholics . |
| 28 | If that were so , subsequent events had some of the characteristics of poetic justice . |