Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] that some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By May 18 the development ministers of the EC member states agreed that some $5,000,000 of emergency aid would be granted to Somalia , to be channelled through European non-governmental organizations as well as through the UNHCR . |
| 2 | Through his work , Freud realised that some taboos of the time were much more commonly breached than was acknowledged by society . |
| 3 | In 1991 , an Arthur Andersen survey on absenteeism estimated that some 1m employees are absent from work every day and that the problem costs industry over £6bn a year . |
| 4 | Market research showed that some parents thought the message was too sober for a birthday . |
| 5 | The increasing availability of liver transplantation during the course of the study meant that some individuals became eligible for this procedure . |
| 6 | Headteachers stressed that some parents would condone their children 's absence and provide bogus explanations for it . |
| 7 | The Brazilian complained that some team-mates shunned him and criticised him behind his back , with Soren Lerby and Kieft the chief culprits . |
| 8 | But ideologically , nationalisation became something of an irrelevance since both major political parties accepted that some form of state control and assistance was essential for coal , rail transport , electricity , gas , civil aviation , cable and wireless , and the Bank of England . |
| 9 | Indeed , cross-tabulation showed that some mail order , credit sale , check trading and fuel board credit users forgot to mention these types of credit in answering this question . |
| 10 | The programme of trials and different phasings for entry into local management meant that some schools were well to the fore and were able to demonstrate both the advantages and drawbacks of early thinking on the part of central and local government . |
| 11 | Nutty guessed that some instinct told Sam to keep his mouth shut about the knacker-yard history . |
| 12 | The report of this inquiry found that some ill-treatment of patients had indeed taken place but also it found much to criticize in general : lax standards of nursing , inadequate medical care , poor conditions and bad management . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Major debt defaults in Mexico and Brazil had prompted a worldwide retreat from international bank lending and the virtual collapse of the syndicated loan market ; since then , unofficial observers estimated that some $45,000 million of net development capital aid had flowed back from the borrowing countries and towards the lenders . |
| 16 | The preoccupation with beginnings meant that some students became addicted to the OHP , firm in the conviction that life without one was unthinkable and that every lesson must have one . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Fears grew that some pensioners and children might lose the right to free prescriptions , after Michael Portillo , chief secretary to the Treasury , warned of huge public spending cuts . |
| 20 | The ordering of YAC probes was harder than for other probes types in that the highly variable length of the YACs meant that some YACs were contained entirely within others , and some YACs were chimeric , requiring some manual adjustment of the order . |
| 21 | The actual sedition charge , however , reportedly arose from an article on tribalism , in which Imanyara wrote that some readers had contacted him to allege that undue favouritism was being shown in official quarters towards particular groups . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The Chiefs of Staff believed that some measure of West German rearmament was unavoidable . |
| 24 | Critics of the administration 's policy claimed that some Haitians who had fled the country a second time , after being repatriated in 1991 , had given evidence of persecution in interviews to UN officials . |
| 25 | Neoclassicism allowed that some offenders were less guilty than others because they were less responsible . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | However , reports in the Hong Kong and Western media alleged that some students carried out various acts of protest in late May and early June . |
| 28 | It was essential to the continuation of prospecting : indeed some cynics implied that some companies continued prospecting only as long as EEC grants were available . |
| 29 | The Law Commission concluded that some remedy of this type should be retained but considered that the old remedy was so hedged about with limitations ( in particular , it provided no power of sale ) and obscurities that it would be better to create a new , statutory right . |
| 30 | Where an earlier generation of natural theologians had assumed that Nature would heal itself , Marsh emphasized that some acts of destruction exceeded the earth 's recuperative powers : |