Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [vb past] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is true that in the late 1430s the English suffered some reverses and territorial losses . |
| 2 | The British made some bad decisions , as did the Irishman Sean Lester . |
| 3 | This was not much of a promise , and Acheson himself was coming to the view that the British deserved some further reassurance . |
| 4 | Before that sanguinary campaign , in which the British lost some 450,000 men for an advance nowhere more than 8km/5mls , volunteers had poured in their hundreds of thousands to the recruiting offices . |
| 5 | In the place of the marble fantasies they tore down , the British erected some of the most crushingly ugly buildings ever thrown up by the British Empire — a set of barracks that look as if they have been modelled on Wormwood Scrubs . |
| 6 | Because German opposition was light in this sector , and because the Germans thought that , after their bleeding at Verdun , they were incapable of massed attack , the French made some gains . |
| 7 | A reasonable estimate is that the French lost some 377,200 , the Germans 337,000 , the only occasion in the war when the defenders lost more than the attackers . |
| 8 | The accused removed some of the metal . |
| 9 | The 1970s saw some highly productive ‘ urban ’ work using a Weberian perspective , Pahl providing the main stimulus for this approach . |
| 10 | The latter received some notice in chapter one ( and will be discussed briefly again in chapter five ) ; in this chapter I shall be concerned primarily with the position of Stevenson , whose Ethics and Language is the fullest statement of the doctrine . |
| 11 | The general budget was set at R13,156,289 million ( US$187,900 million at an exchange rate of US$1.00=R71.1848 as at March 19 , 1990 ) which included the budget for state-owned companies , foreign project financing and the government budget ; the latter comprised some 40 per cent of the total , overall expenditure being set at R5,596,000 million ( $79,900 million ) with revenue set at R4,000,000 million ( $57,300 million ) leaving a deficit of R1,596,000 million ( $22,600 million ) . |
| 12 | Adverse currency movements in Brazil and a worse result in Puerto Rico also contributed to the increased deficit , although the latter showed some improvement in the second quarter when compared to the first three months of the year . |
| 13 | It is possible that the latter drew some plans for Biddick ; if he did not , then he had a powerful influence . |
| 14 | But in November 1950 the Chinese sent some 250 000 " volunteers " across the Yalu , and the war swung back in favour of the North Koreans and their allies as they drove the UN forces back to the 38th parallel . |
| 15 | Then the Philharmonic had some crisis and claimed they needed an extra rehearsal elsewhere . |
| 16 | The events of the 1880s moved some , such as Charles Booth , to detailed investigation of poverty , others to philanthropy or to pressure for government action . |
| 17 | The godly had some success in severing their connection with the church by banishing them from the churchyard , but the old festal calendar survived and the activities associated with it — mumming at New Year , dancing at Candlemas , football and other games at Shrovetide , and maypole dancing on Mayday — were relocated in and around the village ale-house . |
| 18 | The 1960s saw some hectic Australian searching for a music that was ‘ ours ’ , not ‘ theirs ’ . |