Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [prep] some [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She was incurably sentimental about wildlife and they were seldom without some maimed , deserted or starving creatures . |
| 3 | He held her , but he felt nothing ; she was there , and in his consciousness distinctly other and different , but she was also like some relaxed part of himself ; a silent mix of Identities cancelled out , like the pale skin , white scar , dark clothes and black hair being equated and combined , and the resulting coalescence being clear , invisible … nothing . |
| 4 | Either the building was much bigger than it looked , or he was now on some wide underground level without having gone down any steps , or — as he was beginning to suspect — the inner dimensions of the place disobeyed a fairly basic rule of architecture by being bigger than the outside . |
| 5 | ‘ I remember watching a cricket match ’ , he says , ‘ and thinking it was almost like some ritual dance , particularly the bowling : watching the guy contort and twist . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Instead of the entrée , ’ continued Auguste , brightening with sudden enthusiasm , ‘ the poison that killed Sir Thomas was actually in some other dish . ’ |
| 7 | Their loyalty was therefore to some profounder vision of Britain than that expressed in mere party politics . |