Example sentences of "were [verb] [conj] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Templars were crushed but some of them remained as a secret coven and I have crossed swords with them over the years . |
| 2 | As for the hon. Gentleman 's suggestion that the grant-maintained school policy might be paralysing the production of reorganisation proposals , let me tell the hon. Gentleman that in the past 12 months 150 proposals for school reorganisations were received and some 93 have so far been approved . |
| 3 | He claims they were painted when some temporary traffic lights were erected and the council never bothered to remove them when the lights were taken down . |
| 4 | 1 noticed that they frequently lost interest during bulletins when political activities and speeches were reported or some official announcement was made . |
| 5 | The elements of the curriculum considered essential by LEAs were varied and some were reluctant to make any statement on this because they felt it the job of schools . |
| 6 | On the generation design and construction side , the picture was a good deal less inspiring , though improvements were made and some of the inherited handicaps were overcome . |
| 7 | He disclosed the terms of the American offer , he left no doubt that they were in his opinion the best that could be obtained and should be accepted , and he rounded things off with what were interpreted as some highly uncomplimentary remarks about the quality of the Congressional opinion which had to be accommodated . |
| 8 | But its twin at the College of Technology has been scrapped after members of Darlington Health Authority were told that some people were embarrassed to attend in front of their peers . |
| 9 | An FBI spokesman said the move was ‘ a very hopeful sign ’ but fears were growing that some sect members may commit suicide . |
| 10 | Of the applications , 90 per cent were approved but some — perhaps notably those relating to the car industry in the West Midlands — were not . |
| 11 | Again , every page of every book was turned ; drawers full of letters were examined ; children 's drawings were inspected and some of these were taken away . |
| 12 | Many copies were injected and some of them inserted , almost randomly , into the DNA of the nucleus of a fertilized mouse egg . |
| 13 | Something ag again you when you 're doing it , in other areas of the industry if you 're not taught the structure you , you are not taught properly , you get these very bad habits and essential thing which is coming out by not following the structure in order I actually wrote down er by missing the business card and the buyer 's guide at the beginning , I was actually I 've got to slip this in somewhere and not listening to what you were saying and some of what you said went straight over my head which is bad because you 're missing things then . |
| 14 | A great many obscure languages were spoken and some children remained silent because no one else spoke their language . |
| 15 | Women were crying and some labourers were crying too . |
| 16 | At the time of the explosion , he had been trapped at least by the legs in a corner where his shoes were found and some debris had fallen on him . |
| 17 | ANDES reports for the same month that , since 1979 , 309 teachers have been murdered , 33 were political prisoners , 24 had disappeared , 4,500 were displaced and some 4,000 in exile . |
| 18 | Makeshift dwellings were bulldozed and some 30,000 occupants were taken away by lorry and left at a site at Jebel Awliya some 60 km further south . |
| 19 | I tried to help some of those that were hurt but some of them had dreadful injuries . |
| 20 | Injunctions were issued and some of the unions instructed their members to stop the forbidden activities . |
| 21 | ‘ You knew , did n't you , ’ he said , noticing that his hands were shaking when some of the whisky spilt . |
| 22 | This Preface summarises the main respects in which the proposals of the FRED differ from those of the Discussion Paper , and explains why certain proposals were retained although some commentators pointed out difficulties or expressed objections . |
| 23 | In this chapter , I have outlined how a distinct sociological perspective led me into asking particular questions about child abuse , some of the ways in which these questions were explored and some of the insights yielded by such an approach . |
| 24 | Several buildings in the town of Tari were destroyed and some minor injuries were reported . |
| 25 | The Iranians said several people were killed and some abducted , but the rebels denied staging the attack . |
| 26 | Four men were killed and some 40 wounded in clashes there on April 14 . |
| 27 | So I 'm afraid that some were faked and some were real . |
| 28 | People that you knew , you know , getting wires and that to say that their menfolk had either been killed or were missing or some like that . |
| 29 | Pauline Leyshon said her clothes were burning and some actually melted on her body . |
| 30 | Brentford was also the centre at which the Middlesex Elections were held and some very boisterous hustings took place there for the nomination and election of parliamentary representatives . |