Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should n't be surprised if we were in for some more snow . ’ |
| 2 | I thought we were in for some stability . |
| 3 | Oh yeah , it 's getting quite cold , I reckon were in for some snow . |
| 4 | Operating costs in 1992 were down by some £29 million ( 22% ) compared to 1990 , partly achieved by the continuing redundancy programme which cost the company £1.7 million to implement last year . |
| 5 | He began to run about in front of her , to turn , to perform grotesque dance movements that were not without some grace . |
| 6 | If developments of this kind were not in some sense in progress , then there would have been less likelihood of the scribe observing precisely this pattern of orderly spelling variation , because , given the variable state of the orthographic conventions known to him , he could have chosen to vary in other ways . |
| 7 | Criminals were thus in some sense public benefactors ( this clearly being a case where crime does pay ! ) . |
| 8 | They were already in some difficulty in northern Tonkin , where they had abandoned some of their isolated posts , so that , once again , it was the presence of China — shadow , perhaps , rather than substance — which was helping to transform the appreciations and perception of the struggle . |
| 9 | Doctors were always in some way or other community leaders , much more so than lawyers or bankers . |
| 10 | They looked both sly and exhilarated , as though they were off to some party that would end in tears . |
| 11 | Judgements about the acceptability of a given ranking were clearly to some degree subjective , but the computer provided a fast and accurate analysis of the effects of different options . |
| 12 | These developments were clearly of some considerable significance ; just how considerable , however , depends on the nature of the Elizabethan church that the Arminians set out to change . |
| 13 | In West Germany , pressures from the shopfloor movement were also to some extent incorporated by legislation ( in 1972 ) to extend the size and powers accorded to works councils in order to tackle workers ' grievances . |
| 14 | In West Germany , pressures from the shopfloor movement were also to some extent incorporated by legislation ( in 1972 ) to extend the size and powers accorded to works councils in order to tackle workers ' grievances . |
| 15 | ‘ They must have bugged her for the same reason we went to see her : she was somebody unofficial but experienced in underground work — They 'd know they were up against some British group not the CIA . |
| 16 | Her aunt and uncle were out at some official function . |
| 17 | His temperament , in fact , was rather more a golfer 's than a racing driver 's and I ca n't be sure that the likes of Arnold Palmer and other big sportsmen who 'd made good in the States were n't in some way role models for the young Mario . |
| 18 | But if these men who had split into two parties were here for some heist or scam , they were being slow about it , for they sat calmly in silence , one of them in the seat next to Jarvis , a dusty-looking , very ordinary , middle-aged man in a voyeur 's dun-coloured raincoat . |
| 19 | It meant they were here for some time . |
| 20 | Frankie and Liza were there with some of our friends , who gathered round to hear me excitedly telling my tale . |
| 21 | Techniques were initially to some extent specific to particular branches of geomorphology but increasingly were found to have much in common and this trend should be further intensified as the potential of environmental monitoring by remote sensing becomes even more widely available and fully utilizes the opportunities offered by developments in microelectronics . |
| 22 | The governors stuck reasonably well to their instructions on this and other matters and , while they did not always understand the new societies in which they were serving , eighteenth-century attacks on their competence were certainly on some occasions political propaganda that colonists were naturally tempted to launch against men who were carrying out the policy of a distant monarch and government . |
| 23 | She was incurably sentimental about wildlife and they were seldom without some maimed , deserted or starving creatures . |
| 24 | Both objectives 3 and 5 were therefore to some extent achieved through the committee structure . |
| 25 | She saw his glance go over her , ending at the tips of her sensible shoes , and wondered if she was in for some punishing ten-mile hike . |
| 26 | Fernie was obviously in some distress . |
| 27 | ‘ He was obviously in some pain . ’ |
| 28 | It was only after some months that endothelial denudation was observed with platelet mural thrombus attached to exposed lipid-containing macrophages . |
| 29 | It was only after some years that he found the Thun-Hohensteins , who had also taken refuge in Bavaria , and could give it back to them . |
| 30 | The impact angle was very shallow and the aircraft was apparently under some control as it settled only three feet over a horizontal distance of 420 feet . |