Example sentences of "[was/were] some [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As noticed by all , there were some particularly good presents of which Santa 's toy factory would have been proud . |
| 2 | Although , at the time , most attention was paid to the misalliance of old-left peaceniks and right-wing neo-isolationists who opposed the military build-up , there were some pretty strange pacts , too , among those who supported it . |
| 3 | There were some pretty stained-glass windows in art-deco style and some painted porcelain chandeliers . |
| 4 | They noted that asylums had a tendency to provide employment on farms and in workshops for the most competent and socially organized patients and there were some remarkably successful asylum farming ventures ; for example , in the early twentieth century Cane Hill Hospital became famous for its herd of pedigree pigs . |
| 5 | Lady Grubb had fallen easily into the habit of behaving to her children as if she were some doggedly snobbish godmother , inviting them home every few months to look into their marriage prospects and treating the occasion as if it were a country weekend that put her to a lot of trouble , though her house was actually in the middle of London and fully staffed with unhappy au-pair girls . |
| 6 | There were some rather good pieces of furniture and china . |
| 7 | The tradition of press freedom established in a number of metropolitan powers was not extended to the subject territories — although there were some rather clumsy attempts to do so as independence approached . |
| 8 | There were some rather dramatic episodes over hair styles . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm not sure , ’ he said in an oddly formal voice , ‘ but there were some fairly odd stories going the rounds about her . |
| 10 | ( I never cease to marvel at the continued confusion in the public mind between nuclear power and weapons : too many people stare at me as if I were some unnaturally hybrid creature when I mention to them that I am both a member of CND and a strident advocate of nuclear power stations to produce electricity . |
| 11 | There were some very horrific injuries amongst them . |
| 12 | It was the closure of a good , old style joinery firm and there were some very good machines to be had . |
| 13 | A result , I ca n't hear myself speaking if I are the policy and resources committee there were other they were erm er in the debate there were some very good cases brought in to it and some erm good recommendations and this is why I 'm surprised I 'm er forget now why , there were some who were er against by majority because I believe that when we look down on the decisions of the P N O , we have made some very good recommendations if I say so it says on twenty , paragraph twenty in and you people on this authority , members of this authority have been saying a a clear definition of the role of the local government now and for the next twenty years , should underpin any consideration of local authority management structures and the role of members and therefore the joint working party 's consideration begin from an inadequate base . |
| 14 | Because here I think we see one of the chief reasons why Freud adopted the term libido and why when we talked about libido through last term I said we would see that there were some very good reasons in Freud 's erm application of his ideas to society for having this libido and that now we 've come to it , what what kind of libido are Dean and Duncan talking about ? |
| 15 | There really were some very good paintings there ; we should seriously think about buying some of them . |
| 16 | But there were some very good people lived down those streets . |
| 17 | For instance , I recall one evening he came to me and took out a matchbox and he gave it a couple of shakes ; I thought there were matches inside , hut he opened the box and inside were some very evil-looking pills , about the size of , or a little larger , than a Beecham 's pill . |
| 18 | It became very wet as I carried water to the beasts because there were some very rough days and then it flared out and froze . |
| 19 | There were some very expensive items among the lots , however , and an unusual Japanese helmet realised £5,800 . |
| 20 | More important to Gazza will be Taylor 's assessment and the England chief added : ‘ I 've watched the video of the Genoa match and before Gazza went off there were some very encouraging signs . |
| 21 | The only Roman coins to bear an explicit date were some very rare ones made by the Emperor Hadrian in ‘ the year of the city 874 ’ ( i.e. , AD121 ) and some made by the usurper Pacatian ‘ in the 1001st year of Eternal Rome ’ ( i.e. , AD249 ) . |
| 22 | And your man would come up to us afterwards and say , ‘ Those were some very obscure cover versions you were playing tonight , but I liked a few of them … yeah , quite interesting . |
| 23 | Oh , there were some very strong-minded individuals , whose papers I 've been reading , and whose correspondence is , is fascinating . |
| 24 | In 1963 ‘ there were some very unpleasant moments ’ , he told journalists at the Soviet Culture Foundation . |
| 25 | I think that basically the 1980s were very rough and there were some very difficult times and in order to persuade the country to change , and impose change where it was resisted , and to carry it through , required both will and language characteristic of that challenge and Mrs Thatcher has been associated with that . ’ |
| 26 | In addition in the Jurassic there were some truly great coelurosaur types with fearsome talons . |
| 27 | Yeah , well take er there were some good patches in the you know , there were some quite decent houses and some very nice people . |
| 28 | There were some quite nasty-looking cuts on his head , and the sergeant was a bit apprehensive about turning him over . |
| 29 | There were some quite sharp interchanges which unfortunately are still there in the literature and I fear are not doing an awful lot of good . |
| 30 | These typical judgements against dwindling authority formed part of a wider fabric of anxiety in this era , and there were some quite delirious fears in circulation about a supposed deterioration — both physical and moral — among the British people which was believed to be producing new and unprecedented forms of violence and depravity . |