Example sentences of "it [vb past] [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The company reportedly has 15 systems management packages , which it got in some cases by acquisition ( Fusion for example ) , covering such items as operations , performance , security and storage architected for client/server so they will supposedly support OS/2 , Windows NT and Presentation Manager clients . |
2 | With bank interest over the years it amounted to some £320,000-certainly enough to meet the Ingard cheque . |
3 | ‘ It led to some confusion in the department and mistakes may have been made . |
4 | It led to some job losses but it was justified in the company 's longer-term interests — and therefore the interests of the majority of employees . |
5 | Fears of militancy resulting from unemployment and the inadequacy of voluntary efforts to relieve it led to some recognition that charity could not provide sufficiently for either type of unemployment . |
6 | It met with some success , and on 19 June 1890 the Kensington Burial Board discussed the possibility of the Guardians of the Poor using such wicker baskets for pauper burials , but the Board of Guardians declined owing to their cost . |
7 | The agreement endorsed the principle of " self-sufficiency " , which stipulated that waste should be treated or disposed of as close as possible to the point of production , although it provided for some flexibility in the case of smaller countries . |
8 | It seems unlikely that the dance was copied into the score at the wrong point : if it had been , one would expect to find it headed by some warning that it belonged several pages later — otherwise severe complications would result in orchestral parts copied from the score . |
9 | Equally remarkable were the ambition and determination that pushed to completion her final novel , which is also her masterpiece , South Riding ( published posthumously in 1936 and awarded the James Tait Black memorial prize ) : a rich regional study of social change and local government , it drew to some extent on her mother 's experiences as the first woman alderman in the East Riding of Yorkshire . |
10 | It came with some reminder of youth , of the south . |
11 | It came from some boy 's garden . |
12 | Soon , however , a new controversy arose when it seemed to some zoologists and paleontologists that even the large dinosaurs could very well have had a high running speed , at least as high as an equivalent sized modern mammal . |
13 | Because this programme tried to do so much in limited time , it seemed to some observers to be somewhat thin or superficial . |
14 | All chemical reactions were in a sense an expression of this principle ; and if it seemed in some case that the weights of the reactants and the products were unequal , then the chemist must have missed something . |
15 | It seemed like some event described in a legend , remote and formal . |
16 | The Black & Decker WM750 Workmate has a recommended retail price of £82.95 , but you 'll find it discounted in some stores . |
17 | Despite the stink it raised in some quarters , The Krays made perfect sense as a symptom of the curious British habit of turning petty villains into national folk heroes . |
18 | The Royal Commission on Capital Punishment which reported in 1953 ( Cmnd. 5932 ) examined the experience of countries throughout the world where the death penalty has been abolished , restored , abolished again or where it existed in some parts and not in others . |
19 | The system for investing students as or granting was thoroughly reformed and reorganized in the mid-sixteenth century , as mentioned below , but it existed in some form , difficult to define precisely , from well before that time . |
20 | So , between friends lost and friends forgotten , he was very much alone this Saturday night , and picked up the phone when it rang with some gratitude . |
21 | It worked with some success in the early 1960s within the US Defense Department , but when applied in other departments it proved too arduous . |
22 | Kathleen Lavender held out a cardboard box between her hands , speechlessly , so that it looked like some kind of dumb offering and Dorothea at once remembered the solicitor 's stiff letter , her own shamed surprise and then her agitation . |
23 | It looked like some sort of military place , so I walked in . ’ |
24 | It looked like some sort of play he was writing , so far as Bob could see . |
25 | With Rufus it did to some extent come back again and all he could do was grind it down and soldier on . |
26 | It did to some extent aggregate demands and turn them into viable policy issues , and it also acted as a downward channel of communication , explaining and rationalizing government policies in the hope of their greater acceptance by the citizens . |
27 | It sounded like some kind of ritual in the way the Oak said it and the other Trees bowed their heads in acknowledgement . |
28 | It sounded like some cowboy duel . |
29 | The issue of conscription was a particularly tender one for the union , for it had for some time been under pressure from the Admiralty over breaches of the obligation of seamen , nominally enforced by the Board of Trade , that sailors should be on board their ships on time and hence not delay sailings . |
30 | To such an end it had for some time been seeking to intensify contacts with both Tehran and Baghdad . |