Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] some [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She demonstrated that some women could make their voices heard on political as well as spiritual matters during the Interregnum . |
| 2 | Anyway coach Olsen actually before this game mentioned that some players was knocking on the door for a place — Fjortoft and Sorloth has kind of been out of form recently . |
| 3 | The NAO report , however , found that some areas had been neglected , notably air , as the inspectorate concentrated its resources on those areas it considered to be priorities such as nuclear sites . |
| 4 | In her research into the effects of divorce on children , Mitchell ( 1985 ) found that some siblings had been divided between the two parents , though some were reunited after the divorce . |
| 5 | Reception We tuned in to all the broadcast channels with the loop aerial and found that some sets gave a far better picture than others . |
| 6 | Rand found that some firms were even trying to avoid bad publicity by cleaning up sites before they were put on the Superfund list . |
| 7 | The Yale and Michigan studies found that some searches initiated as known-item searches could in fact be subject searches or could develop into subject searches . |
| 8 | The study also found that some pollutants are far more damaging when released at higher altitudes . |
| 9 | The reverberations of the Super 8/Standard 8 controversy can still be detected ; institutions were encouraged to invest in the new film equipment , but found that some manufacturers persisted in producing material only in the earlier format ; the resultant collapse of confidence has not been easy to repair . |
| 10 | Dr Sharp and his colleagues from an Edinburgh hospital questioned nearly 300 doctors in southeast Scotland and found that some GPs get up to 50 requests a month for ear syringing . |
| 11 | To their surprise , they found that some schools had grown in number from one week to the next . |
| 12 | The therapist realized that some changes in the couples ' situation would have to occur within a few days if another crisis were to be avoided . |
| 13 | Through his work , Freud realised that some taboos of the time were much more commonly breached than was acknowledged by society . |
| 14 | Between the sessions , Pope Paul had called for restraint on this topic , and on 28 October Cardinal Agagianian announced that some matters would not be brought to the Council floor in a move widely interpreted as favourable to the conservative forces in the curia . |
| 15 | Both , in rather different ways , advanced pluralist or multiple solutions which acknowledge multiple values and purposes , although Nisbet admitted that some methods ( viz. testing ) were likely to pre-empt the field and destroy the balance . |
| 16 | Although , at this stage , there is still some mismatch between policy and practice since the research findings revealed that some children do not yet have access to an effective modern language curriculum . |
| 17 | The survey also revealed that some GPs charge sick or disabled people for signing their proxy/postal vote form . |
| 18 | They argued that some groups can consciously or unconsciously put up barriers to the public discussion of issues . |
| 19 | Against those who advocated the end of any separate provision for the mentally ill were those who argued that some patients could best be helped by care within specialized institutions provided these were not huge , obsolete in design and rigidly organized . |
| 20 | And she added that some women were just as bad at bullying as the men . |
| 21 | Gerstner told the IBM Corp meeting in Tampa , Florida that he does not intend to ‘ lay out a grand scheme ’ for the company : ‘ There has been a lot of speculation , ’ Reuter reports him saying , ‘ that I am going to unveil some great plan , ’ Gerstner said ; ‘ You will see actions , and our actions will speak for themselves , ’ but added that some actions will not emerge until 1994 ; he described it as not entirely accurate to describe IBM 's strategy as ‘ splitting it up into a bunch of little pieces , ’ and added that the dividend may change based on IBM 's performance and outlook ; ‘ We ca n't expect quick fixes , ’ Gerstner told more than 3,000 shareholders at the meeting , ‘ But I do dare to ask your patience , ’ he said ; his top priority is to get IBM 's layoffs completed and ‘ rightsize ’ the company — ‘ I want to get it behind us so we can say to those remaining , ‘ You are are our team , ’ ’ he said ; he acknowledged several times that IBM 's bureaucracy had hampered the company , and elsewhere it was reported that he has ordered managers to dispense with the customary slides and flip charts when they address him — ‘ IBM has changed but some would say not fast enough , ’ but ‘ We can bring IBM back , ’ Gerstner said . |
| 22 | Observers noted that some changes , such as that which enabled President Fidel Castro to declare a state of emergency , and appoint himself leader of the National Defence Council in such an event , merely institutionalized already existing situations . |
| 23 | Observers noted that some members of the military had interests on the boards of several state enterprises and that they were thought to oppose wide-ranging privatization plans . |
| 24 | ( Bottom ) Wallace noted that some cockatoos — Australian birds — had crossed his demarcation line to Bali . |
| 25 | We noticed that some graves in the eighth century had a plain stone beside the big Geometric vase . |
| 26 | But in recent years we noticed that some candidates were writing to us — or their employers were writing — to say that certificates had n't been received for modules completed one or more years previously . |
| 27 | Not long after that day a big van came and some men filled it up with furniture . |
| 28 | In Frank H Wright ( Constructions ) Ltd v Frodoor Ltd [ 1967 ] 1 WLR 506 a valuation stated that some assets had not been included , when in fact they had been , but the result was still the same and completely unaffected by this error ; there was therefore no need for the court to correct the valuation . |
| 29 | The Secretary of State acknowledged that some students might be genuinely worried about their finances . |
| 30 | It claimed that some teachers in the primary school had allowed performance in the basic skills of reading , writing and arithmetic to be adversely affected by their inadequate understanding and hence uncritical application of child-centred , or informal , methods . |