Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [conj] some [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for the hon. Gentleman 's suggestion that the grant-maintained school policy might be paralysing the production of reorganisation proposals , let me tell the hon. Gentleman that in the past 12 months 150 proposals for school reorganisations were received and some 93 have so far been approved . |
| 2 | He claims they were painted when some temporary traffic lights were erected and the council never bothered to remove them when the lights were taken down . |
| 3 | 1 noticed that they frequently lost interest during bulletins when political activities and speeches were reported or some official announcement was made . |
| 4 | ANDES reports for the same month that , since 1979 , 309 teachers have been murdered , 33 were political prisoners , 24 had disappeared , 4,500 were displaced and some 4,000 in exile . |
| 5 | Makeshift dwellings were bulldozed and some 30,000 occupants were taken away by lorry and left at a site at Jebel Awliya some 60 km further south . |
| 6 | Several buildings in the town of Tari were destroyed and some minor injuries were reported . |
| 7 | Four men were killed and some 40 wounded in clashes there on April 14 . |
| 8 | Such things as fingers , hernias and extended navels have caused problems in practice when the defence has submitted that it was not the penis which was exposed but some other similar looking object . |
| 9 | In the last chapter the nature of stress was explained and some broad general rules were given for deciding which syllable in a word should receive primary stress . |
| 10 | On Aug. 28 , it was reported that some 1,000 Italian troops would assist with the distribution of US$85,000,000 worth of Italian food aid , sufficient to meet Albania 's requirement for three months . |
| 11 | It was expected that some 40-50 mergers per year would fall due for examination in this way . |
| 12 | As the situation deteriorated , it was felt that some further evidence of the British government 's determination not to allow the majority to lean on the minority was needed . |
| 13 | From information received it was thought that some illegal activity was afoot off the Teign estuary so Venturous and Valiant were detailed to keep watch on the movements of local vessels early in August , 1964 . |
| 14 | As the nose of the aircraft was raised and some right bank smoothly applied the aircraft was observed to flick suddenly to the right to ninety degrees of bank , whereupon the nose dropped and it descended steeply to the ground . |
| 15 | I was damned if some nineteen-year-old pipsqueak with zits and a clip-on tie was going to make me feel loathsome . |
| 16 | In the early 1840's it was computed that some 240 or so adult male workers found employment at the mines . |
| 17 | Of these 133 new Majlis members , it was estimated that some 55 were supporters of Rafsanjani and that many of the remainder were reported to be independent candidates likely to align themselves with the President 's faction . |
| 18 | All in all , in 1975 it was estimated that some 145,000 persons lived in a mobile home of some type . |
| 19 | In all , it was estimated that some 110 bills — all of which sought to restrict access to abortion to some degree — had been introduced in 47 state legislatures since July 1989 . |
| 20 | In Sweden in 1988 it was estimated that some 15,000 lakes were acidified , just over 1,800 of which were ‘ seriously ’ acidified ; 100,000 km of rivers and streams were also affected . |
| 21 | Turnout was estimated as some 60 per cent in the elections , the first to be held under a new electoral law [ see pp. 37274 ; 37707 ] and using a new voter roll which increased the total electorate to some 36,000,000 eligible voters . |
| 22 | And if the latter , was it a blame game that he was playing or some other sort of game ? |
| 23 | An average hourly revenue loss of $78,191 was identified though some individual companies put losses at $500,000 plus . |
| 24 | They said the outlandish sect was warned that some 100 agents were about to try to arrest Koresh on weapons charges . |
| 25 | It was suggested that some existing pensioners , who may not have drawn the sum due to them on leaving the Bank , could now claim the sum due to them and donate it to the Fund . |