Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [conj] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Templars were crushed but some of them remained as a secret coven and I have crossed swords with them over the years . |
| 2 | As for the hon. Gentleman 's suggestion that the grant-maintained school policy might be paralysing the production of reorganisation proposals , let me tell the hon. Gentleman that in the past 12 months 150 proposals for school reorganisations were received and some 93 have so far been approved . |
| 3 | He claims they were painted when some temporary traffic lights were erected and the council never bothered to remove them when the lights were taken down . |
| 4 | 1 noticed that they frequently lost interest during bulletins when political activities and speeches were reported or some official announcement was made . |
| 5 | The elements of the curriculum considered essential by LEAs were varied and some were reluctant to make any statement on this because they felt it the job of schools . |
| 6 | On the generation design and construction side , the picture was a good deal less inspiring , though improvements were made and some of the inherited handicaps were overcome . |
| 7 | He disclosed the terms of the American offer , he left no doubt that they were in his opinion the best that could be obtained and should be accepted , and he rounded things off with what were interpreted as some highly uncomplimentary remarks about the quality of the Congressional opinion which had to be accommodated . |
| 8 | But its twin at the College of Technology has been scrapped after members of Darlington Health Authority were told that some people were embarrassed to attend in front of their peers . |
| 9 | Of the applications , 90 per cent were approved but some — perhaps notably those relating to the car industry in the West Midlands — were not . |
| 10 | Again , every page of every book was turned ; drawers full of letters were examined ; children 's drawings were inspected and some of these were taken away . |
| 11 | Many copies were injected and some of them inserted , almost randomly , into the DNA of the nucleus of a fertilized mouse egg . |
| 12 | A great many obscure languages were spoken and some children remained silent because no one else spoke their language . |
| 13 | At the time of the explosion , he had been trapped at least by the legs in a corner where his shoes were found and some debris had fallen on him . |
| 14 | ANDES reports for the same month that , since 1979 , 309 teachers have been murdered , 33 were political prisoners , 24 had disappeared , 4,500 were displaced and some 4,000 in exile . |
| 15 | Makeshift dwellings were bulldozed and some 30,000 occupants were taken away by lorry and left at a site at Jebel Awliya some 60 km further south . |
| 16 | I tried to help some of those that were hurt but some of them had dreadful injuries . |
| 17 | Injunctions were issued and some of the unions instructed their members to stop the forbidden activities . |
| 18 | This Preface summarises the main respects in which the proposals of the FRED differ from those of the Discussion Paper , and explains why certain proposals were retained although some commentators pointed out difficulties or expressed objections . |
| 19 | In this chapter , I have outlined how a distinct sociological perspective led me into asking particular questions about child abuse , some of the ways in which these questions were explored and some of the insights yielded by such an approach . |
| 20 | Several buildings in the town of Tari were destroyed and some minor injuries were reported . |
| 21 | The Iranians said several people were killed and some abducted , but the rebels denied staging the attack . |
| 22 | Four men were killed and some 40 wounded in clashes there on April 14 . |
| 23 | So I 'm afraid that some were faked and some were real . |
| 24 | Brentford was also the centre at which the Middlesex Elections were held and some very boisterous hustings took place there for the nomination and election of parliamentary representatives . |
| 25 | The fact remained that the beef was overcooked and some of the potatoes were burned . |
| 26 | Gloucester and Buckingham then rode to Stony Stratford to take possession of Edward V. His escort was dismissed and some of his closest associates arrested , among them his stepbrother Richard Grey and his chamberlain Sir Thomas Vaughan . |
| 27 | Gloucester and Buckingham then rode to Stony Stratford to take possession of Edward V. His escort was dismissed and some of his closest associates arrested , among them his stepbrother Richard Grey and his chamberlain Sir Thomas Vaughan . |
| 28 | Such things as fingers , hernias and extended navels have caused problems in practice when the defence has submitted that it was not the penis which was exposed but some other similar looking object . |
| 29 | In order to meet these requirements , it was realised that some form of detector-operated system would be essential , and this led to the development of the zoned system in which open sprinklers were used , mounted vertically one above the other on a drop pipe and fed from a ‘ zone control valve ’ which was opened directly by the response of the detector to the fire . |
| 30 | A TEACHER who was sacked because some of his lessons were said to be too sexually explicit has won £12,000 compensation for unfair dismissal . |