Example sentences of "was [adv] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | She saw his glance go over her , ending at the tips of her sensible shoes , and wondered if she was in for some punishing ten-mile hike . |
| 2 | Fernie was obviously in some distress . |
| 3 | ‘ He was obviously in some pain . ’ |
| 4 | It was only after some months that endothelial denudation was observed with platelet mural thrombus attached to exposed lipid-containing macrophages . |
| 5 | It was only after some years that he found the Thun-Hohensteins , who had also taken refuge in Bavaria , and could give it back to them . |
| 6 | The impact angle was very shallow and the aircraft was apparently under some control as it settled only three feet over a horizontal distance of 420 feet . |
| 7 | It was thus with some caution that Labour Ministers — who stood to lose their salaries in the event of the party 's defeat — approached the question of the break-up of the coalition . |
| 8 | In The Absoluteness of Christianity he rejected the idea that any historical phenomenon , including the Christian faith , could be absolutely and universally valid , but still tried to hold that Christianity was nevertheless in some fashion the ‘ normative ’ form of religion . |
| 9 | Thus the family name was already to some extent associated with extraterrestrials . |
| 10 | It was not for some time , and after some acquaintance , that she got round to thinking that one of the most charming features of Clelia 's room was its sense of prolonged nursery associations . |
| 11 | It was not for some years after we had separated that I had to face the fact that the deepest part of one 's being is always inaccessible to another , and that only when we are lost in passion , eager above all else for our own gratification — yet unconscious that this is the case — that we ignore the gulf , forget that we are strangers . |
| 12 | She was so absorbed that it was not for some time that she realized that the sea on her left was no longer the water of the estuary but had become the ocean . |
| 13 | However , this was not without some opposition : in 1139 a council presided over by Pope Innocent II banned the crossbow as a barbarous weapon unfit for Christian use , a decision confirmed by Innocent III . |
| 14 | That is not to say that the trivial name was not without some information on , for example , its origin — formic acid from ants ( formica ) for instance . |
| 15 | Although this account was not without some truth , it ignored the grave problems of poverty and disunity facing African governments then and now . |
| 16 | This scheme was widely welcomed and easily settled the debate over what style would be most appropriate for a rural Light Railway though it was not without some apprehension that the W & L Board gave the go ahead . |
| 17 | That Khrushchev 's decision was not without some immediate economic cost is indicated by the difficulties which ensued from the commitment to supply Cuba with its oil which , according to his memoirs , placed a sudden and unwelcome demand on the Soviet fleet : |
| 18 | It was not like some of the valleys they had seen so far , sparsely vegetated and arid . |
| 19 | He could not accept that Christ 's Atonement was not in some sense , applicable to the entire human race . |
| 20 | It was not until some time later that the drawings were found to have been stolen . |
| 21 | There was always plenty of activity here , and so much so , that it was not until some time had elapsed , that a rumbling from above brought the GC to his attention . |
| 22 | It was not until some time around the 18th century that it was firmly back where it is now . |
| 23 | It was not until some 18 years after the publication of the Latey Report that the common law position on this topic was resolved by the decision of the House of Lords in Gillick v. West Norfolk and Wisbech Area Health Authority [ 1986 ] A.C. 112 . |
| 24 | But management still lay , in Britain , more with LEAs than with heads or governors because in schools — primary , secondary or special — daily management was still at some distance from the control of finance , from the decision about a school 's total allocation of teaching staff , from the establishment of policies and schemes of priority in the school 's curriculum and organization and from the presentation of the whole picture of aims , methods and performance to parents and to other members of the local community . |
| 25 | The family was still of some standing but the merchant firm of Höchstetter had become bankrupt in 1530 with the failure of a heavily financed speculation in mercury and the end of a dream of world monopoly in that substance . |
| 26 | It was more like some sort of cellar than an upstairs room . |
| 27 | It was probably at some time during that same period when the dawning need to rely on a ‘ god ‘ first disturbed the developing human being , that he started to enjoy pleasures which were not the result of simply satisfying the desires associated with his physical evolution . |
| 28 | Gloucester was also to some extent underwriting the costs of government himself . |
| 29 | Gloucester was also to some extent underwriting the costs of government himself . |
| 30 | He held her , but he felt nothing ; she was there , and in his consciousness distinctly other and different , but she was also like some relaxed part of himself ; a silent mix of Identities cancelled out , like the pale skin , white scar , dark clothes and black hair being equated and combined , and the resulting coalescence being clear , invisible … nothing . |