Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] [adv] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Doctors were always in some way or other community leaders , much more so than lawyers or bankers . |
| 5 | Criminals were thus in some sense public benefactors ( this clearly being a case where crime does pay ! ) . |