Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] had [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Russia English merchants had gone some way south of Moscow , and trade was also being carried on in the Eastern Mediterranean or Levant . |
| 2 | Too thinly spread to have much impact on the structure of wealth , so many were subsidiary to farming that , far from being divided into industrial and agrarian regions , England consisted of various farming regions of which certain pastoral ones had attained some degree of industrial development , in some few cases to the extent of substantially modifyng their fundamental characteristics . |
| 3 | His doubts about the relentlessness of Singapore 's Westernization and his relative sensitivity towards the concerns of the city state 's ethnic components had attracted some support . |
| 4 | The black eyes had recovered some spark of life , a question in them , as the old woman lay looking at her . |
| 5 | The great office blocks of the 1890s had taken over that role , and the office-block stations had made some attempt to match them . |
| 6 | Bradshaw and Millar found that about 85 per cent of all lone mothers had spent some time on income support since becoming a lone parent with 72 per cent still in receipt at the time of the interview . |
| 7 | If confirmed , the news suggested that the Tamil Tigers had reached some sort of agreement with the IPKF and the Jaffna-based TNA . |
| 8 | These specimens were sent to Harmon Craig of University of California , San Diego , whose paper on the helium abundance in volcanic atmospheres had stimulated some of Palmer 's early thoughts . |
| 9 | Defeat in five of the last six presidential elections had convinced some Democrats that fresh ideas were needed , while others call for a more forceful and enthusiastic avowal of liberal policies . |
| 10 | Ivy was growing up its trunk and the recent gales had wrenched some of it from the bark . |
| 11 | Windows was pre-installed and Western Systems had made some effort to configure it — the permanent swap file was installed ; a minor chore that 's commonly overlooked . |
| 12 | Nevertheless all professional anthropologists had assimilated some of his ideas about the theoretical interpretation of particular social customs scattered through his writings , of which the most important were The Andaman Islanders ( 1922 ) , The Social Organization of Australian Tribes ( 1930–1 ) , and the occasional papers collected with a very laudatory foreword by Evans-Pritchard and the leading American social anthropologist Professor Peter Eggan in Structure and Function in Primitive Society ( 1952 ) . |
| 13 | The Beaver Committee defined 294 areas of England ‘ black ’ , requiring smoke control , and by 1974 all but fourteen local authorities had taken some steps towards implementing the Act . |
| 14 | On Feb. 9 Albanian police had prevented some 5,000 would-be emigrants from sailing from Durrës , the port ( 30 km west of Tirana , the Albanian capital ) from which a group of Albanians been allowed to leave for Brindisi in July 1990 [ see p. 37618 ] . |
| 15 | There was the Nationalist Party , a weak organization for which local priests had to provide some kind of legitimation . |