Example sentences of "was [adv] [vb pp] [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , Britain 's position in world trade in 1950 resulted from a temporary advantage since , despite enormous difficulties , she was better placed to make some immediate recovery from the effects of the world war than the devastated economies of Europe and Japan [ Milward , 1984 ] . |
| 2 | Study 5 was thus conducted to allow some quantification of the actual information contained in the stimuli that were used in Studies 2 and 3 . |
| 3 | Maryland was organized as a late and formal version of the feudal system , the Virginian way of life was always expected to reflect some memories of the heirs of the Elizabethan gentlemen and seadogs who had launched it , and Massachusetts and the other New England colonies that emerged from it retained a moral earnestness that sometimes survived the loss of the faith that had initially inspired the earnestness . |
| 4 | ‘ They should teach a guy these things at school , ’ Sam said lamely , as he was clearly expected to make some response . |
| 5 | Although he returned to the School staff after the war , he was later compelled to spend some time in a sanatorium . |
| 6 | The agreement was carefully worded to give some satisfaction to both parties . |
| 7 | During the study , it was also used to address some of the issues uncovered during the first Activity , particularly with regard to cooperation and coordination . |
| 8 | Mozart was immediately engaged to write some additional choruses for a Miserere by the Mannheim Kapellmeister , Ignaz Holzbauer , for performance at the Concert Spirituel , because : |
| 9 | One questionable oddity is the use of a bastardised B–25 bomber which was horribly modified to represent some imaginary type . |
| 10 | In later years the argument was grudgingly admitted to have some force : one correspondent to the STC agreed that " 50 per cent of the London and provincial work would be lost to Edinburgh and would never have been gained but for the employment of female labour " . |