Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said that the post would be advertised , which was duly done at some cost to the public purse . |
| 2 | The decision was vigorously opposed by some sections of the party , including two of Lenin 's leading lieutenants , Kamenev and G.E . |
| 3 | The writing of Utopia and Wolsey 's proceedings mark the start of a period in which enclosure was vigorously condemned by some , although still practised by others . |
| 4 | Rebleeding was successfully controlled in some patients with treatment by a second injection . |
| 5 | As yet this seems not to have been a frequent occurrence and the request was successfully rebuffed by some abbots of religious houses which did not own the king as patron , but a door had been opened which subsequent monarchs were to push far wider . |
| 6 | Consequently it was bitterly opposed by some of the bishops . |
| 7 | CNC machine tool manufacturers have often promoted their products with the claim that they can be operated by unskilled operators , and it was widely believed for some time that engineering companies were taking the opportunity given by the introduction of CNC machine tools to replace skilled craft workers by unskilled or semi-skilled operators on the shop-floor , and putting white-collared technicians in the programming office . |
| 8 | His voice was thickly clogged with some primitive emotion she assumed was rage . |
| 9 | Jason was obviously suffering under some strong emotion . |
| 10 | He said that it was obviously meant as some kind of warning . |
| 11 | The MINSE approach requires a detailed investigation which moves beyond the intuition of the analyst , and can therefore only be accurate with a continual input of local expertise which was obviously missing during some of the phases of the research project . |
| 12 | Indeed , does not Locke himself raise this objection when he asks why ‘ one intellectual substance may not have represented to it , as done by itself , what it never did , and was perhaps done by some other agent ’ ? |
| 13 | It all looks polished , but that was only achieved with some difficulty . |
| 14 | In the shorter run , however , the property qualifications for the franchise set down in the act did effectively exclude the working class from political participation through the ballot box , although the franchise itself was only increased by some 220000 in England and Wales . |
| 15 | In the south of the county , it was only beginning on some manors in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth , while on others it did not occur until the sixteenth and seventeenth . |
| 16 | Bill says it was apparently done by some lunatic for reasons unknown , but he wants to know if you have any information about it that he does n't have . ’ |
| 17 | He was one of those arrested in June , when Richard was moving towards the throne , and this was apparently accompanied by some more or less official seizure of his temporalities . |
| 18 | He was one of those arrested in June , when Richard was moving towards the throne , and this was apparently accompanied by some more or less official seizure of his temporalities . |
| 19 | W. 's chapter of misfortunes continued when , in September 1991 , Dr. M. suffered a heart attack and contact between him and W. was necessarily severed for some three months . |
| 20 | The first meeting was held on March 2nd and it was stated that a bridge was much wanted at some point between Rochester and Aylesford . |
| 21 | But such an identification is at best hypothetical , since it implies that Eliot was unconsciously propelled towards some instinctive revelation of his own guilt and horror . |
| 22 | Regarded as more independent of the President than Akbulut had been , his appointment as Prime Minister was nevertheless interpreted by some observers as an attempt by Özal to boost the influence within the ANAP of a secular , liberal tendency against that of the Islamic fundamentalists . |
| 23 | Clearly , the mill was largely rebuilt at some point in the 19th century , the brick-built section tying into the much older stone range . |
| 24 | Perhaps the memory was already buried in some corner of his mind . |
| 25 | Walahfrid Strabo , a monk of Reichenau in Alemannia who had spent the years since 825 at the great monastic school of Fulda , was already known to some of the court clergy . |
| 26 | The windowpanes rattled furiously , and spidery fingers of crepitating electricity twitched and danced over the glass once more ; again creating the illusion that the entire office block was somehow enmeshed in some monstrous spider 's web . |
| 27 | distinction between attempting to respond on the basis of behaviour , or a response based on whether or not there 's a victim , can carry you a certain way , but I was just thinking of some of the discussions we 've had in college recently about the sort of behaviour with which we feel uncomfortable , and I have to say that sometimes it would be difficult to identify a given victim or , you know , a group of given victims . |
| 28 | I was just looking at some of the prices they want for the property . |
| 29 | Anderton said yesterday : ‘ I was just coming into some form when I had to have my operation . |
| 30 | Karajan 's 1953 recording of Vaughan Williams 's Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis was generally preferred to some home-grown recordings . |