Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [verb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After another six months I was asked to attend the physiotherapy department for treatment ; this did bring some relief , but only for a matter of hours . |
| 2 | This had led some observers , notably Robertson , Briggs and Goodchild ( 1982 ) , to cast doubt upon the idea of a simple linear progression through the sectors . |
| 3 | Indeed British reservations began to surface only after the Soviet nuclear test in the late summer of 1949 ( this had occurred some years earlier than expected ) , and when the scale of the American build-up in Britain became apparent . |
| 4 | Almost half had used some training units , but from our observations it was clear that the guidelines for use were rarely followed closely . |
| 5 | None of this suggested that the English would go forward to build up the most wide-ranging empire that the world had ever seen , and even if Hakluyt had added that the English had made some attempts to settle in North America and had organized themselves for trade in the East Indies he would not have much altered the case . |
| 6 | Of these forty-five had received some sort of special training for a diplomatic career , and a good many had studied outside Russia . |
| 7 | In addition , the Six had learnt some lessons from the past , and hoped that the adoption of a long-term perspective would also avoid a clash of economic interest with the OEEC . |
| 8 | By late afternoon the FT-SE 100 had made some progress and closed 26.2 up at 2732.4 , with news of the GATT deal coming after the end of trading . |
| 9 | Among Poor Law administrators at all levels the change in LGB policy from the 1870s had created some confusion . |
| 10 | When teachers , matrons , the housemistress and finally the headmistress all started to show some concern and more disapproval at my unco-operative ( anorexic ) behaviour , I refused to answer their questions , or even to talk to them at all , and during the course of their homilies I merely stared out of the window or smiled to myself in a superior , scornful sort of way . |
| 11 | He had very long hair at the time and a beard , Lewis remembered , and looked as they all did like some kind of weird prophet . |
| 12 | Although just over half of a sample of teenage mothers in 1979 — 80 had had some kind of family planning lesson at school , only a quarter had attempted to use contraception around the time they conceived . |
| 13 | Nicholas I had put some order into 200 years of imperial legislation by publishing the Complete Collection and Digest of the Laws , but he had done nothing to alter judicial procedure . |
| 14 | But the fact that the PSBR for the current year has looked like falling short of the Chancellor 's revised forecast of £37 billion had persuaded some analysts that his estimate for the coming year would turn out little , if any , more than last November 's Treasury forecast of £44 billion . |
| 15 | Chairman Michael Hurdle said the last few months of the year to March 27 had provided some evidence of an upturn in consumer confidence and helped increase operating profits by 10.2pc to £22.5m from £20.4m last time . |
| 16 | I was suddenly very much awake as the Germans sent off another two bombs , The first had exploded some distance away , followed by the two others ; the German mortar team were dropping their bombs on the Commando positions to our rear . |
| 17 | A further Committee in 1846 did get some results . |
| 18 | The 1930s had seen some reorganisation of state education . |
| 19 | Great Big had found some dandelion wine and they were passing the bottle round . |
| 20 | Of 65 right handed patients who had post-operative aphasia , 54 had shown some effect of stimulation on their speech and a further 10 out of 15 right handed patients showed aphasic arrest during cortical stimulation but had no post operative aphasia . |
| 21 | A Department of Employment survey in 1988 of individuals attending courses or receiving job-related training , found that just 4.5 per cent of economically active men aged 50–59 and 1.9 per cent of those aged 60–64 had received some form of course or training in the four weeks prior to the interview . |
| 22 | The installation of the Pascal-Trouillot administration in March 1990 had brought some relief to the economy with the restoration of United States and other foreign aid [ see p. 37815 ] . |
| 23 | They showed little regard for the ceremony of church weddings , although they both hoped to find some form of acceptable New Testament-based belief for themselves without benefit of clergy ; they believed , in Lamarckian fashion , that the physical match and spiritual preparation of parents would ensure a ‘ better ’ offspring , as one essential step to a better world . |