Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The leader writer depicted the Minister of Education Florence Horsbrugh as having been ‘ hoist with her own petard ’ : if she had hoped that her Committee of Enquiry would recommend financial cuts she had been disappointed , for if anything the proposals made some increase in expenditure likely . |
| 2 | Stonehenge is incomprehensible until we realize that the builders used some kind of scaffolding , or perhaps ramps of earth , which are no longer there . |
| 3 | In other vicinities , clusters of schools shared some part of their staff in pursuit of a common curriculum entitlement for all those pupils who would transfer from , for instance , distant and isolated primary schools to a single country-town secondary school . |
| 4 | Although individual schools reported some degree of increased activity in this area , facilitated by extra staff , it was clear that except in certain well-known cases , home-school links was not a PNP priority . |
| 5 | But Greville was at least an able man , who in other offices showed some worth . |
| 6 | The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw some redistribution of the population , for the towns grew faster than the villages because of immigration from the countryside . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Traders said some futures-related buy programmes also added to the market 's gain . |
| 9 | In the second place , it is important to appreciate that with time both parties underwent some degree of ideological transformation . |
| 10 | To all whom this epistle shall come , Greetings — Whereas we have been credibly informed by our well-beloved subject the right honourable Lord Clovelly , of Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk , and on behalf of our well-beloved subject Christopher Everard , Gentleman , that the said Christopher Everard hath lately discovered several Islands in the Hesperidean seas towards the continent of America , the one called Saint Thomas 's , alias Everhope ( though this be error ) , or in the native tongue Liamuiga , and another , as the savages of those parts name it , Oualie ; that we are further informed that these said Islands are possessed and inhabited only by the aforementioned savages and heathen people , and are not , nor at the time of the discovery were , in the possession or under the government of any Christian Prince , state or potentate , and thereupon the said Christopher Everard , being set forth and supplied on our shores for that purpose , made entry into the said Islands for and on behalf of our dear Father in heaven , and hath since with the consent and good liking of the natives made some beginning of a plantation and colony and likewise of an hopeful trade there , and hath caused divers of our subjects of this realm to remove themselves to the said Islands with purpose to proceed in so hopeful a work : KNOW THEREFORE that the said Lord Clovelly and Christopher Everard may be encouraged and the better enabled with the more ample maintenance and authority to effect the same , We do command the said Christopher Everard to be possessed of the said Islands and all our other loving subjects under him : And of our especial great and certain knowledge have given and granted unto the said Christopher Everard during our pleasure custody of the aforesaid Islands and of every creature , man , woman and child upon them together with full power and authority for us and in our name and as our Lieutenant to govern rule and order all . |
| 11 | Japan had closed its embassy temporarily on Jan. 12 and the Egyptian ambassador had left the following day , although most Arab countries retained some representation . |
| 12 | The position of churchmen in such transactions caused some debate , and their giving security was forbidden in the Constitutions of Clarendon of 1164 . |
| 13 | The visitors regained some pride when the Mazunov brothers won the two dead matches . |
| 14 | The visitors regained some respectability with Hanley and Dixon tries in the last 10 minutes . |
| 15 | Reformers showed some knowledge of Spanish American provisions of work for wages to allow self-purchase by slaves at a formally agreed price . |
| 16 | Electricity Board engineers restored some power to the leisure complex this afternoon … but the effects of the weekend 's floods are likely to be felt for week 's to come . |
| 17 | During the past seven years I 've worn fabric and plastic boots so my feet needed some encouragement to weather leather again . |
| 18 | Complaints from parents took some time to appear . |
| 19 | In Foley v. Classique Coaches Ltd. ( 1934 C.A. ) the defendants bought some land from the plaintiff and it was a condition of the purchase that the defendants agreed to buy petrol ( for their coach business ) only from the plaintiffs . |
| 20 | In the one Eastern Europe country where the communists had some claim to popular legitimacy in the past , opposition spokesmen freely proclaim : ‘ Czechoslovakia has never been a communist country . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The Roof Gardens had some claim to being a London landmark . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Exports showed some improvement , although the rise in the import of finished manufactures such as motor cars and other vehicles was continuously alarming . |
| 25 | If the key elements of ‘ owlness ’ were absent , or only a few were present , the birds showed some curiosity about the dummy but were not stimulated to perform the full mobbing response . |
| 26 | Consumer products showed some resilience , particularly in the second half , said chairman Gareth Davies . |
| 27 | He believed that many of these slips revealed some kind of sexual subconscious which suddenly ‘ accidentally ’ is brought to the conscious . |
| 28 | He readily granted licences for enfeoffment to uses , and although Chancery officials made some effort to track down unlicensed or fraudulent uses , such cases ‘ form a very small minority of all those tenants in chief who had conveyed land to uses ’ . |
| 29 | Even in Britain , with its relative isolation from , and suspicion of , continental legal thinking , Beccaria 's ideas made some impression . |
| 30 | Over the years , four more films and a television series were to follow : the heroes found some difficulty in impersonating Raffles the cricketer , the arts of slow bowling being in short supply among leading actors . |