Example sentences of "[was/were] some [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ( 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In addition in the Jurassic there were some truly great coelurosaur types with fearsome talons . |
| 6 | There was some distinctly unladylike wrangling between the grandmothers . |
| 7 | There was some pretty rough weather during December 1935 and the writer recalls seeing ex-Croydon Corporation No. 19E sweeping snow at Selhurst Station , while work was still going on erecting the double overhead wires . |
| 8 | How could he , even if he did have what he thought was some pretty overwhelming evidence , think she might be anybody 's easy one-nighter ? |
| 9 | There was some particularly strong stuff from two members from Southport , and there were references to ‘ Emily Pankhurst and her floosies ’ and , inevitably , to Mrs Thatcher — ‘ We 've all seen what can happen when women get control ’ . |
| 10 | Probably there was some quite innocent explanation , which Roger Kenyon would give her when she returned the wallet — if , indeed , it were his . |
| 11 | It seemed to me that there was some quite palpable fear , some terror , almost , loose amongst them . ’ |
| 12 | I remember saying this was a bit leisurely , was n't it , but there was some apparently reasonable explanation , like no one gave any notice that they were going to die and the partnership could be a bit pushed to produce the cash if it was the wrong time of year . |
| 13 | What did n't help was some really impure acid he took in Munich , in ‘ 69 . |
| 14 | There was some really special guitar stuff on that which is now … really loud again ! ’ |
| 15 | There was some very insecure playing , too . |
| 16 | King also saluted his rock solid back four , saying : ‘ There was some very good defending . |
| 17 | What actually happened was that a colleague of mine , Dave Walton and I , got together to look at a rather esoteric aspect of molecular motion , thinking of making molecules which were very , very long and had very simple structure but could have perhaps erm very complicated what we call dynamic motion , but there was some very good chemistry involved and we erm put this project together for the Sussex Chemistry Bithesis programme , and erm the student who took on this particular project , Alexander , spent two years learning how to do the synthesis and developed a lot of ability in this area ; he also learned how to do the spectroscopic experiments and studied the analysis of molecular motion , and he was able to do this on top of the course work that he did , and in fact this particular project and Alexander , who did the work himself , and the subsequent exciting sort of repercussions of the project have all made me a rather firm believer in the course here , and that in fact undergraduates can do research and also that it 's a very good training for the future . |
| 18 | She had enough to do without him coming and bringing her what she could tell , from the little she 'd read so far , was some very important work . |
| 19 | But I would never want to upset anyone unless there was some very positive idea which we must try . |