Example sentences of "it [was/were] [verb] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rights and wrongs of it were debated for some time and the feeling seemed to be that the TCCB had come out of it in a worse light than Gatting ; as the Melbourne newspaper The Age put it , ‘ Gatting , caught rumour , bowled hypocrisy , 0 ’ . |
| 2 | He stroked her face , and then ran his fingers through her hair , looking at it as if it were made of some delicate , finely spun silk . |
| 3 | I do not believe that it would be lawful unless it were underpinned by some appropriate resolution of the Security Council of the United Nations . |
| 4 | Simon had n't inherited yet ; the house was entailed of course and as there was no direct male heir ( my being what I am ) it looked as if it were going to some cousin overseas , only later it became known that Mary had had a posthumous son : he 's still a minor — here 's another member of my family whom I have n't met , I seem to have an assortment . |
| 5 | Answer guide : An opportunity cost is defined as the maximum benefit which could be obtained from a resource if it were used for some alternative purpose than the opportunity under consideration . |
| 6 | Yet although attempts were made to assure the British public that telephone-tapping was conducted in the most exceptional and in the most highly controlled circumstances , it was suspected by some that the practice was very different . |
| 7 | It implies for example , it was created for some kind of purpose . |
| 8 | On behalf of the applicant , Mr. Fitzgerald submitted that a death due to ‘ natural causes ’ in the sense that it was caused by some naturally occurring disease , nevertheless becomes ‘ an unnatural death ’ within the meaning of section 8(1) ( a ) when it could and should have been prevented by the performance by some other person or authority of a duty owed by them to the deceased . |
| 9 | Alternatively it was seen by some as a warning to the opposition that the process of democratization would have its limits . |
| 10 | It was assumed by some that profitability entailed selling products to new customers , but this is not necessarily so according to Ken Wilkie , the newly appointed chief executive at IBM 's UK Havant plant . |
| 11 | During the discussions of the draft Convention it was argued by some delegates that the Central Authority should have a double task , acting as a transmitting or forwarding agency as well as receiving requests from abroad , but their opinion did not prevail . |
| 12 | Trade unions are demoralised , have no clearly defined purpose anymore ; they are inefficient and ineffective , it was argued by some . |
| 13 | It was argued by some on the Public Schools Commission ( DES , 1970 ) , for , that parents and children would appreciate the value of the education they received and not simply take it for granted if they actually had to part with some money . |
| 14 | The University denied it was hoping for some form of financial benefit from the visit . |
| 15 | It was to last for some months yet . |
| 16 | It was adopted for some of the dailies too . |
| 17 | To glamorise the whole thing ( the car obviously could not be kept at the camp ) , it was kept in some out-of-the-way garage , possibly in Aston Clinton , which was the nearest village to the camp at Halton . |
| 18 | And even if a structural , timber can be dated , there is always the possibility that it was stored for some time between being felled and being used , or even that it was re-used timber salvaged from an earlier building . |
| 19 | Initial excavations indicate that it was related in some way to the others , but had no buildings within the rampart . |
| 20 | Of course , it was written to some girlfriend or other in England . |
| 21 | It was written in some exasperation by Frederick Midgeod as a result of his experiences presumably with a Model T Ford during his time in what was the Gold Coast and is now Ghana . |
| 22 | It was made from some sort of high explosive , but we do n't know what type . |
| 23 | It was followed by some other railway and gas companies , and from the 1900s a range of well-known paternalistic companies : Cadbury , Colmans , Coats , Cunard , Wills , Marconi , and many others . |
| 24 | In the discussions of the mid-1970s it was hoped in some institutions that this step might be the forerunner of others involving greater delegation of powers . |
| 25 | The budget package was consistent with those of recent years in that it was based on some fairly optimistic projections concerning the future development of the economy . |
| 26 | Acts I and III were found in 1984 but the crucial second act was missing until 1988 when it was discovered amongst some rubbish in the basement in a packet labelled ‘ Ballet — no use ’ . |
| 27 | Thus , it does not apply where the evidence establishes the existence of a collateral contract ; where it can be shown that the document was not intended as a complete record of the contract terms ; where its existence or operation was dependent upon some prior unexpected stipulation ; or where it was procured by some illegality or misrepresentation . |
| 28 | The market might be held several days a week , and if , like the great Cotswold wood marts at Cirencester , Tetbury and so forth , it was noted for some speciality , business might be attracted from well outside the five-mile radius considered reasonable for day-to-day requirements in the Middle Ages . |
| 29 | It went on to sell four million copies around the world , the lion 's share , it was noted with some satisfaction within Virgin , in territories where Virgin had their own label . |
| 30 | In the spring of 1968 there was much rethinking within the CRA [ Civil Rights Association ] leadership ; the tactics of Martin Luther King in America had been absorbed inasmuch that it was felt by some that only public marches could draw wide attention to what we were trying to achieve by normal democratic means . |