Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The discrepancy between job-specification and status became acute for some coordinators , and remained a problem in some schools , not just for coordinators but also for many other staff with significant cross-school managerial responsibilities . |
| 2 | It was ironic that while most of the men I knew seemed inclined to some form of polygamy , Syl , now that he was getting older and had less energy , should have decided on a monogamous relationship with me . |
| 3 | Given the demands of the United Kingdom 's aging population and the tendency of health care costs to rise , it seemed certain to some doctors that governments ' policies in this area would contain an appreciable element of cost containment . |
| 4 | The result was that the union became subordinated for some time to the hierarchy and a breakaway union of protestant teachers was formed . |
| 5 | With Alan McDonald ( Queen 's Park Rangers ) declared fit after some doubt over an Achilles tendon injury the defensive set up should remain the same . |
| 6 | She hit the blancmange of the shoreline , bounced over it and flew sprawling into some bushes . |
| 7 | Was he paying her attention this evening because he felt guilty in some way ? |
| 8 | Cedric was a solid , tending-to-fat man , pale of skin , lightly freckled , with short fair hair that looked reddish in some lights . |
| 9 | I yearned towards the mystical earnestness which saw through the outer facing of existence in a oneness and blinding intensity which went direct to some essence of being . |
| 10 | Hauling himself back to bed he lay awake for some time , before falling asleep . |
| 11 | She lay awake for some time , puzzling over Fen 's behaviour . |
| 12 | I then vomited , lay still for some seconds to recover from my disorientation and looked up at the officer , standing nonchalantly with hands clasped behind his back . |
| 13 | She tried to mask her true feelings from her mother and sister , but her throat ached with tension and she felt desperate for some action to be taken , to try to search for him . |
| 14 | But either it was not hunting or he was too big to tackle , for it disappeared over the heather ; and although he waited motionless for some time , it did not return . |
| 15 | Things continued quiet for some while . |
| 16 | When Britain sent in troops to prevent the Canal being taken over , there was a worldwide outcry , particularly from the U.S.A. , who still accused Britain of retaining an Imperialist attitude , The British troops were withdrawn , but the Egyptians had sunk a number of vessels in the Suez Canal , so it became impassable for some while . |
| 17 | It stood unused for some time and was burnt down by vandals in 1970 . |
| 18 | Trade-union membership remained low for some time , affected by unemployment and by the movement of industry to less highly unionized areas in the South of England . |
| 19 | You will find it much easier to work with the door removed and held firm in some form of vice . |
| 20 | ‘ With over 300 covers it was probably too big as a fish restaurant and while it stayed successful for some time as The Chicago Meatpackers , the area around it , in the West End of London , has changed in two major ways . |
| 21 | We find that after the end of the eruptive activity in 1989 , fractures in the south-southeast flank of the volcano remained unfilled until some months before the 1991–93 eruption . |
| 22 | It stood idle for some time , eventually being sold in 1897 and demolished a year or so later . |
| 23 | It was not , for them , simply a matter of supposing that what held true in some cases would hold in all , but of their coming to see a particular case as an instance of an intuitively recognizable universal truth . |