Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] [verb] in some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nine out of 10 homes were destroyed in some areas , causing £500 million damage . |
| 2 | The timing of training sessions was investigated in some depth and the importance of fitting the training to a particular time of year and to a particular size of training package at specific times of day was revealed . |
| 3 | On the expenditure side , subsidies were cut in some areas , most notably fertilizers . |
| 4 | It is for this reason that approval of collections was refused in some cases . |
| 5 | When news of Joni 's book got out , efforts were made in some quarters to postpone its publication , in the hope that certain pages might be cut or toned down . |
| 6 | In December 1863 he patented a combination of an electromagnetic generator with a magneto-electric exciter , and these machines were made in some numbers by Wilde & Company , but in use they had the disadvantage of becoming very hot . |
| 7 | With the coming of steam power and mechanisation by the 1840s , machines were working in some mills and life was very different . |
| 8 | The terms were used in some LEAs to identify children on Statements of Special Educational Needs , and they were adopted by some authors to talk about the curriculum ( Gulliford 1985 ) . |
| 9 | Approximately 800 of Kuwait 's 950 oil wells were damaged in some way by the Iraqi forces , as were the country 's three oil refineries . |
| 10 | In addition , declaration forms were missing in some cases in the departmental libraries , or older forms had been torn off and replaced by new forms when full rather than being retained , thus losing the evidential value of the forms . |
| 11 | TWO more brands of Dutch lager were being withdrawn from the UK market after glass splinters were found in some bottles , it was reported yesterday . |
| 12 | better knowledge ( because of the database — 18 per cent of new debts were linked in some way to debts already known ) |
| 13 | However both low and high values were used in some measurements for the purpose of comparison , and this was instrumental in demonstrating the nature of the spreading and flooding phenomena discussed in Chapter 5 . |
| 14 | These issues were discussed in some detail by the Select Committee on the Coal Industry . |
| 15 | In this country family allowances were paid in some areas in Tudor times , and at the end of the eighteenth century William Pitt made serious proposals for a national scheme of cash allowances for children . |
| 16 | Pupils were asked for their views on the tests and their approach to taking practical tests was observed in some instances by members of the project team . |
| 17 | During the drought of 1976 this resulted in an unusually high concentration of nitrate in the aquifers under parts of East Anglia and warnings were issued in some areas that babies should be given only bottled water to drink . |
| 18 | Although regular use of itinerating magistrates was made in some areas later in the century , many villages remained thirty or forty kilometres from the nearest police court , and some were much |
| 19 | In consequence only 17 paired measurements were used in some cases for the comparison between placebo and loperamide oxide phases of the study . |
| 20 | But superimposed on this background were brief ‘ bursts ’ of high-frequency activity , in which whole ensembles of cells were firing in some sort of rhythmic synchrony ( Figure 10.10 ) . |