Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The position would have been very different in the case of a payment made some years before which was sought to be recovered because a court in another case had ruled that the regulation under which the demand had been made had all along been ultra vires . |
| 2 | He was thus encouraged to believe that the Cambridge Board entertained some doubt over the strength of its case for unilateral action and was therefore anxious to reach a negotiated agreement with the WEA prior to making any application for additional Chapter III providing powers . |
| 3 | So the Guardian made some inquiries . |
| 4 | During the screening process , however , the Education Ministry made some changes which were criticized by liberals . |
| 5 | An inspection found some wards were overcrowded , and some toilets and bathrooms were dirty . |
| 6 | All that happened is that the electric field drew some charges to the surface of the dielectric which caused then some additional charges to appear on the surface of the conductor . |
| 7 | In all , the administration moved some $13,000 million in domestic priorities . |
| 8 | A soldier moved some markers from one side of a canal to the other . |
| 9 | Labour moved some way towards electoral reform with the Plant Committee , but while Kinnock himself favours change , he feared that a commitment to electoral reform would split the party . |
| 10 | ‘ The appearance of the witness caused some amusement in court , ’ observed The Daily Graphic ( 6 August 1898 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The plaintiff 's horse ate some leaves and died and the defendants were held liable under the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher . |
| 13 | To his surprise , they had evidently not forgotten him ; an engraved card came some weeks later . |
| 14 | The industrial action by the University and College lecturers union NATFHE caused some disruption at a number of colleges of higher education and Liverpool 's new university , John Moores . |
| 15 | For the first time Bonanza showed some emotion . |
| 16 | Meanwhile the pound showed some signs of stabilising having slipped below the psychological DM3 level earlier in the week . |
| 17 | Labour showed some chagrin that the Tories had stolen a march on them by ending conscription , but even Aneurin Bevan , the shadow Foreign Secretary and a unilateralist at heart , accepted the need for the British nuclear deterrent , making his famous remark that to abandon it would ‘ send a British Foreign Secretary , whoever he may be , naked to the conference table ’ . |
| 18 | The shepherd poured some wine from a tattered straw flask into four greasy tumblers and the men sat at the oil-cloth-covered table . |
| 19 | The educational psychologist spent some time explaining the legal side of Statementing , which is complex . |
| 20 | When the Tibetan returned some months later he was impressed that the red bitch had survived . |
| 21 | The Club started some time ago and has had as many as thirty members in the past but now numbers have dwindled to fifteen . |
| 22 | The plaintiffs relied upon the defendants ' report and as a result lost some £17 000 in monies owed by E on advertising contracts when E went into liquidation . |
| 23 | When better weather favoured the batsmen in the closing weeks of last season , it was noticeable that Lloyd 's side lost some impetus and the title slipped away . |
| 24 | The partnership took some time to sell . |
| 25 | In February 1965 the first annual general meeting of the association saw some changes of officers and in the membership of the executive committee , but no change of direction nor amy indication of a breakthrough . |
| 26 | A Swedish study went some way towards achieving this aim by using soldier ‘ volunteers ’ and keeping them awake for about 72 hours in a constant environment . |
| 27 | Stage 2 of the curriculum review went some way , therefore , to provide more verifiable data . |
| 28 | The success of the Left Book Club leant some credence to popular front politics . |
| 29 | In the next story in the Gospel , John the Baptist sent some disciples to Jesus to ask if he was the one who was to come or whether they should begin to look elsewhere . |
| 30 | 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 ’ . |