Example sentences of "[det] [vb past] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That made some sort of sense . |
| 2 | This involved some form of lexical checking . |
| 3 | This occasioned some surprise . |
| 4 | This received some support from the statistics , as far as Conservatives are concerned ; the total number of ministerial appearances on regional news and weekly programmes in the period analysed by Blumler was 124 , while Conservative back-benchers appeared 104 times . |
| 5 | Although this received some publicity , it did not compare with the media attention given a year or so later to the drug problems in Seoul . |
| 6 | This caused some alarm in the British timber trade . |
| 7 | This caused some concern to all present as the top two positions were now held by Scots . |
| 8 | This caused some puzzlement . |
| 9 | This brought in new people such as Robert Hunter as head of the Department of Energy Office of Basic Research , and one of his first acts was to reorder some of the research funds.l This caused some research activities to be trimmed at Oak Ridge , Los Alamos and Princeton , where the dt experiment was postponed for at least another three years . |
| 10 | This caused some wrangling which delayed the continuation of the pursuit , and ended in von Keller conceding that he would divide the spoils in a safe place to ensure safe division . |
| 11 | This caused some confusion in the grandstands as most spectators did not realise that they had gone through Kyle and O'Grady . |
| 12 | ‘ This caused some amusement amongst the lads at work , ’ he said . |
| 13 | This caused some comment among the Americans . |
| 14 | The so-called ‘ wets ’ favoured an interventionist role for government in the economy and were prepared to increase state spending to boost employment , even if this risked some increase in inflation . |
| 15 | This showed some recovery until 19 6 7 or 1968 , followed by a further and very sharp decline , in particular of about 50 per cent . |
| 16 | This required some disturbance ( ‘ strain ’ as Hirschi calls it ) — such as the ‘ gap ’ — to push them out of convention and into crime . |
| 17 | Since manufacturing productivity rose by only 2.9 per cent a year between 1962 and 1964 , this implied some combination of higher inflation and lower profitability . |
| 18 | And this would be an insupportable thing to know about oneself , if one thought that this implied some superiority over the people around one . |
| 19 | This needed some clarification before we began to look for an answer . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | This meant some easing of the burden , which he liked , but it also meant that he was not Prime Minister , which he also liked being , that he did not have Chequers , for which his affection was second only to that of MacDonald , and that his salary as Lord President was £2000 instead of the £5000 which Secretaries of State as well as the Prime Minister were paid . |
| 22 | Cole wanted the WEA to maintain , and where necessary restore , its position as the educational representative of the working-class movement , responding to demands for classes by trade unions and other workers ' groups , even if this meant some reduction in the number of courses taught . |
| 23 | The Protocols of the Elders of Zion were proved to be a forgery by The Times in 1921 and this went some way to defuse the growth of anti-semitic tendencies within the wider political culture . |
| 24 | This went some way towards closing the financial gap between Gloucester 's endowment and that of his brother Clarence , but income is probably all that the grant was designed to provide . |
| 25 | This went some way towards closing the financial gap between Gloucester 's endowment and that of his brother Clarence , but income is probably all that the grant was designed to provide . |
| 26 | Explaining this took some doing . |
| 27 | This took some doing , as they seemed prepared to stay all night . |
| 28 | All this took some time and he was not a particularly military figure at the end of it . |
| 29 | Another brought some lunch . |
| 30 | This gave some stimulus to the movement for town planning which , inspired by Ebenezer Howard 's advocacy of ‘ garden cities ’ , pressed for the substitution of the continuing spread of overcrowded cities with new low-density communities in which homes and industry were segregated . |