Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] in some [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Western countries led by France were said in some reports to be fearful of the destabilization of Morocco should a UN-organized vote go against King Hassan II 's claim to Western Sahara . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Hotels are the usual choice of venue and were used in some cases . |
| 5 | In consequence only 17 paired measurements were used in some cases for the comparison between placebo and loperamide oxide phases of the study . |
| 6 | Single pieces of card , were used in some trials , in others several were used in a variety of positions relative to one another and to the central strip . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | As reported , the authors found ‘ disturbing ’ the fact that half of the sample CID investigations they examined were lacking in some details or were actually unsatisfactory ’ . |
| 9 | In conclusion , we have shown high frequencies of IgG anti-lactoferrin antibodies in ulcerative colitis , and primary sclerosing cholangitis , but not in Crohn 's disease , whereas IgA autoantibodies directed against lactoferrin were found in some cases of both ulcerative colitis and Crohn 's disease . |
| 10 | TWO more brands of Dutch lager were being withdrawn from the UK market after glass splinters were found in some bottles , it was reported yesterday . |
| 11 | On the expenditure side , subsidies were cut in some areas , most notably fertilizers . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Nine out of 10 homes were destroyed in some areas , causing £500 million damage . |
| 14 | Rates of erosion up to 30 tonnes per hectare were recorded in some areas . |
| 15 | With the coming of steam power and mechanisation by the 1840s , machines were working in some mills and life was very different . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In 1975 , after it was launched in Finland , sixteen cases of agranulocytosis occurred , eight being fatal , and the drug was withdrawn in some countries . |
| 19 | Aquino 's choice was criticized in some quarters for threatening the possibility of splitting her support — between those who would remain loyal to the LDP and those who would support Ramos — and thereby allowing an opposition candidate to win . |
| 20 | I tried to pull myself out but my foot was caught in some branches and the current squashed the canoe hard up against me , allowing me no movement . |
| 21 | Participation of over 80 per cent of the workforce was reported in some areas , in the first general strike in Italy since May 1989 . |
| 22 | Polling was cancelled in some villages because all their inhabitants had fled the escalating violence , which has killed 140 people in five months . |
| 23 | Soon after Hamilton 's battle-scarred book came out , moreover , in the spring of 1988 , there appeared in Britain a kind of memoir entitled The Facts-A Novelist 's Autobiography in which the issue was addressed in some passages of exceptional interest — the gaze and forehead of Olympian Zeus after the outcries and the special and professional pleading which had surrounded all but one of these other events . |
| 24 | ‘ This Boy Can Wait ’ was seen in some quarters as possessing a strong gay message and Gedge enjoyed the ambiguity the lyrics encouraged . |
| 25 | 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 |
| 26 | However progress was made in some areas and the latter part of the year saw much effort to integrate the management contracting activity within WCUK regions which is now essentially complete . |
| 27 | As to the climbdowns to which the right hon. Gentleman referred , they merely reflect the Government 's success in putting in writing — and I agree that this was needed in some cases the Government 's intentions , using words that even the right hon. Gentleman could understand . |
| 28 | The hunger strike was interpreted in some quarters as an attempt by the RAF prisoners to increase their influence on the command structure outside prison . |
| 29 | The statement , issued by Baker and Soviet Foreign Minister Alexander Bessmertnykh at the end of three days of talks in Washington , was interpreted in some quarters as representing a softening of the US demand for Iraq 's unconditional withdrawal from Kuwait . |
| 30 | [ See Fig. 3 ] The mighty Krakatoa eruption was compared in some ways with a Wagnerian opera . |