Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [verb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The GCE and CSE examinations were conducted by a variety of Boards and , although subject experts tried to judge some standard of achievement , it was basically a normative assessment i.e. the same percentage pass the examination each year . |
| 2 | When the guardians proposed moving some families to Henfield , a few miles away , a fight broke out which could only be stopped by troops from Brighton . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , the parties did undergo some transformation as they adapted to a changing political climate . |
| 4 | The Boards ' lines of defence against this — replacement costs were hypothetical and difficult to estimate , tax complications might follow — read like a weary defence of the status quo , but the Ministry did in the end accept that their creation of special ad hoc depreciation reserves did go some way to meeting the point . |
| 5 | A few weeks before , her brothers had deposited some things in her kitchen for safe-keeping , and while they were there Barbs had called and had asked , in her friendly and inquisitive fashion , what the cardboard boxes contained . |
| 6 | The black eyes had recovered some spark of life , a question in them , as the old woman lay looking at her . |
| 7 | The situation appears to be similar in UK public libraries , where a survey by Capital planning Information found that one-third of 32 library authorities surveyed had some form of selection policy . |
| 8 | In addition the broadcasters envisaged spending some £250,000 on coverage of committees . |
| 9 | None of this implies that even if such biological elements did play some role in explaining these institutions , the institutions would then be necessary or unchangeable — even if the explanation were true , this could still be a case in which becoming conscious of their rationale was a help in changing them . |
| 10 | In some cases there was little domestic support for communist policies and a new administration had effectively to be installed by the Red Army ( this was the case in the GDR , Poland and Romania ; Bulgaria , where the communists had enjoyed some support , took the German side during the war and here too a communist government was imposed by the Red Army ) . |
| 11 | Communists continued to have some success among the unemployed , many of whom felt betrayed by the Labour government and ignored by the TUC . |
| 12 | Protest movements had to face some reduction of their freedoms . |
| 13 | The presence of United Nations troops seemed to provide some protection to the Hercules crews . |
| 14 | His ideas appeared to bring some benefits : he lived to the age of 94 and at 87 married a young wife . |
| 15 | Age and experience were valued in the belief that length of days had provided some guidance on how to live and what to expect in the life to come . |
| 16 | The great office blocks of the 1890s had taken over that role , and the office-block stations had made some attempt to match them . |
| 17 | In Campbell and Palmer v Crest Homes ( Wessex ) Ltd ( 1989 ) unreported , Chancery Division , 13 November , the plaintiff vendors agreed to sell some development land to the defendant purchasers at the price the property might reasonably be expected to fetch on the open market at the relevant date on a sale by a willing vendor to a willing purchaser ; if the parties failed to agree the price within four weeks they were to refer to an independent surveyor to determine the price . |
| 18 | SHARES of LEP , the freight-forwarding and security monitoring company , were marked down 15p to 150p yesterday when its half-time figures failed to meet some market expectations . |
| 19 | But these concepts did provide some women with categories of self-definition around which to mobilize , negotiate and occasionally disrupt and claim as their own . |
| 20 | As the following sections show , however , case load problems were not as great as predicted ; and although the development officers continued to feel some lack of back-up services they did not consider it a severe impediment to their implementation of the project . |
| 21 | This season no great turn around was expected : for the first time the Show 's organisers had had some difficulty filling the sixty-four available booths . |
| 22 | But whereas before meal-times had implied some sort of positive interest in eating , their purpose now was the active avoidance of eating , the opportunity to prove to myself that I was still achieving , still winning . |
| 23 | Furthermore , when considering what information was produced for outside agencies , the aggregation of statistics on such matters as resident dependency levels seemed to offer some potential for improvement . |
| 24 | Nevertheless we accept that a new period in world communications did begin some time in the 1970S — involving technology , markets and policies . |
| 25 | The fact that the trustees had to retain some monies to cover expenses did not prevent the income arising from the specific assets . |
| 26 | This , in turn , encouraged multi-occupation as immigrant landlords sought to get some return from the purchase of these decaying properties . |
| 27 | A joint central committee and joint congresses endeavoured to secure some co-ordination . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | If confirmed , the news suggested that the Tamil Tigers had reached some sort of agreement with the IPKF and the Jaffna-based TNA . |
| 30 | The FLN deputies did cede some ground to government recommendations on independent candidates , who henceforward would need to secure 300 instead of 500 signatures in support of their candidacy . |