Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [vb past] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost all the new stations opened in the London suburban area after 1920 had some form of subsidy from the developers . |
| 2 | The results of this included some abandonment of cultivation in areas such as Dartmoor , where high contour settlements seem to have been effectively deserted by 1350 , and problems in farming on heavy soils which could suffer from waterlogging . |
| 3 | The ‘ mad summer ’ of 1874 saw some 2,000–3,000 young radicals leave the cities and ‘ go to the people ’ . |
| 4 | Although there was still no sign of the Central Committee meeting on the national question , the autumn of 1988 and early months of 1989 saw some elements of a rather different nationalities policy begin to acquire form . |
| 5 | From 1487 to 1496 , he raised about £250,000 in parliamentary taxes , to which the benevolence of 1491 added some £60,000 . |
| 6 | The Pople conference of 1990 produced some fascinating insights into current work . |
| 7 | Another example is I bought some apples , which does not stand in a contrary relationship with I bought some pears . |
| 8 | To move on , within this set some industries will be sustainable , some will not be . |
| 9 | A sampling programme carried out in the Coins and Medals Department in 1979 checked some 10,000 of the estimated 600,000 objects in the collections . |
| 10 | A previous rights issue in 1991 raised some £25 million and helped the company buy up development land at bargain prices . |
| 11 | The abolition of the wager of law in 1833 caused some revival in detinue but in view of the expansion of conversion , detinue only really remained necessary where the defendant was unable to redeliver the goods . |
| 12 | The Society in 1922 had some sixty thousand members belonging to about seven hundred and fifty lodges , including twenty-two for the deaf , who , it turned out , proved an exceptionally good risk . |
| 13 | Thus the Sino-Indian border disputes which led to a localized war in 1962 brought some joint Anglo-American action to try to deter China from further military action , and especially from air attacks on Indian cities . |
| 14 | There is an increasing mood in favour of reversing the Supreme Court decision ( Roe vs Wade ) that in 1973 allowed some abortion . |
| 15 | From supplying 0.2% of France 's electricity in 1960 , nuclear in 1982 supplied some 40% and by 1990 this will increase to 70% . |
| 16 | In 1949 , he had become a Jordanian citizen and in 1954 secured some family money that had been locked in Jaffa bank accounts , making him ‘ not a rich man , but living ’ . |
| 17 | About 10 per cent of the population in 1988 had some form of private health insurance cover ( Propper and Maynard , 1990 ; Laing , 1990 ) . |
| 18 | Friday 's 273.68-point rally in the Nikkei Dow index to 18,559.71 brought some relief , lifted by hopes of a new morale-boosting emergency government package . |
| 19 | I have meant to write to you a hundred times during the last three weeks but at all hours of the day I have been busied with teaching and beating and supervising footballings until when at last after all the animals were caged up and I at last had some peace , I have been too sad & too weary to write anything . |
| 20 | The East German leadership at last showed some reaction to the enormous vote of no confidence expressed by its citizens over the past weeks . |
| 21 | The Electrophone Company was formed by Mr H. S. J. Booth in 1894 , and by 1896 had some 50 subscribers in London . |