Example sentences of "were [noun] [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sacrifice of TWW and the merger of ABC and Rediffusion into Thames were acts of some courage and panache , in which the ebullient personality of ITA chairman , Lord Hill , a former broadcasting star as the Radio Doctor in the 1940s and a cabinet minister under Harold Macmillan , were an important factor . |
| 2 | That was probably another of the reasons why they became so obsessed with loyalty , with the idea that you were part of some élite squad . |
| 3 | At Cambridge she met her first husband , Sebastian Manning , who introduced her to a world in which socialism , far from being ridiculous , was natural , chic , colourful , confident , artistic : Sebastian 's parents were artists of some repute , one a painter , the other a potter , and they did not think much of the austerities of Dr Leavis . |
| 4 | Certainly , there were texts of some plays printed and obviously plays were originally written in some sense . |
| 5 | Naturally there were protests from some ILEA teachers of languages , history , geography , home economics and physical education that their subjects were not to be made compulsory in the fourth and fifth years : such subjects , it was held , were thereby accorded a lower status . |
| 6 | You can very often er for instance at Cheshire very often I mean there were sort of some people 's wives would like to do it . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , ’ she said , ‘ I 'd say they were remedials of some sort . |
| 8 | The rusting remains of an old piece of farm machinery were evidence of some Icelander breaking his back to extract a living from the land . |
| 9 | We have seen earlier how lodgers provided another means of support for older householders : and there were lodgers in some childhood homes too . |
| 10 | In such societies it is frequently the case that the individual treats all outsiders " as if " they were kinsmen of some sort . |
| 11 | The fourteen Area Board chairmen were men of some seniority and experience . |
| 12 | There were indications of some changes in the characteristics of Wirral 's heroin users between 1984 and 1986 , such as the higher proportion of females . |
| 13 | Though there were complaints in some places that 1 January 1913 came and went with no settlement in sight and though seamen on weekly boats in Hull were aggrieved at receiving less than their colleagues elsewhere , 2s.6d increases on weekly wages and 10s on monthly were fairly readily conceded , more in some places . |
| 14 | There were reports of some units already having transferred allegiance to Ukraine , including the 48th division , withdrawn from Czechoslovakia in 1990 , which had disobeyed orders of Sept. 10 to move to the Caucasus . |
| 15 | The Arabs were explorers of some renown . |