Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [conj] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | It emerged that all four had gone to Spence 's house on various occasions where they were sexually abused and some were photographed . |
| 2 | Several temporary sorting offices set up by Canada Post were reportedly attacked and some burnt down . |
| 3 | Plans for the reoccupation of Malaya were well advanced and some ships had already put to sea . |
| 4 | These were again aquatints and some of the prints were finished in watercolour . |
| 5 | At least 1,653 people died , over 3,000 were seriously injured and some 110,000 were made homeless by a powerful earthquake , measuring 7.7 on the Richter scale , which struck the northern Philippines on July 16 . |
| 6 | When Paul Devereux took over The Ley Hunter in 1976 , it was widely assumed that some form of energy existed at ancient sites , but there had been virtually no research to back these ideas up . |
| 7 | Wingti 's position was improved by the defection to his government of a further six MPs , but it was widely assumed that some of those not rewarded with Cabinet office were unlikely to remain permanently within the government coalition . |
| 8 | Yeah erm oh well looks like we 're nearly drifting towards the end , again as I , as I say I 'm , I 'm , I 'm fairly , pretty happy with the questions erm you know er going back to what I was saying earlier I was just thinking that some of them might be more f easily phrased as non directional statements and you have the , you know , kind of have the words in the scales yeah right , good , so yeah |
| 9 | You see this one in chapter , page of Matthew , and verse twelve as I mentioned , I was just wondering if some , if that 's got something to do with the faith of the army officers or something like , cos |
| 10 | It was vertically banked and some thirty metres wide . |
| 11 | It was further alleged that some complainants were shadowed , intimidated and , even , assaulted while going about their daily affairs ( Out of Court , BBC 2 , 4 March 1987 ) . |
| 12 | It was confidently predicted that some firms , particularly the smaller ones , would also go out of business as a consequence of the 1985 round of price cutting . |
| 13 | It was later discovered that some Scottish Folds developed thickening of the limbs and tail , and that this was a serious handicap to them . |
| 14 | It was also estimated that some 275,000 of the hurricane 's victims remained without electricity and that 150,000 were homeless . |
| 15 | It was also claimed that some people in the media held shares in the mining companies and thus coverage of the exploration could be uncritical . |
| 16 | A French authorship was also proposed while some believed the inscription with the sitter 's name to be a later addition . |
| 17 | It was also suggested that some sort of ‘ Irish dimension ’ ( to borrow the term of the 1980s ) be institutionalized by the creation of a Council of Ireland made up of representatives of the Westminster and Dublin parliaments and members from the to-be-created Stormont ‘ Assembly ’ . |
| 18 | She was also told that some of the creatures and vegetation on the planet were not real , but the product of a Nicaean corporation . |
| 19 | In c.1308 it was even suggested that some Gascons , especially from the Agenais , might have rebelled openly against their duke had it not been for the existence of French sovereign jurisdiction as a kind of safety valve . |
| 20 | The contract went out to competitive tender and though ours was higher priced than some they liked its performance and capability . ’ |
| 21 | It was commonly believed that some evil spirits lost their strength in daylight . |