Example sentences of "there [was/were] some [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some parts of the country showed more significant growth than others : on the east coast , the number of sailings not only rose in absolute terms between the 1460s and the early sixteenth century , but the proportion of those by English ships approximately doubled , although there were some exports which were largely carried in foreign vessels . |
| 2 | Mrs. Mirjam Foot of the British Library ( and currently Editor of the British Library Journal ) who kindly looked into the problem for me , pointed out that while there were some stationers whose initials and dates fitted , such as Richard Baldwyn , who worked in London till 1590 , there is no evidence of any one of them having been a bookbinder . |
| 3 | ‘ There were some papers I thought you ought to see . |
| 4 | There were some engineers who wanted more experimentation and more rapid adoption of larger sizes or re-heat , arguing that , while Britain had at last caught up with American levels of thermal efficiency in 1938 , she was now again falling behind . |
| 5 | ‘ Last summer , before the markets looked up , there were some companies whose solvency margins looked very thin and Scottish Equitable were towards the bottom of these . |
| 6 | While they were working on this case there were some things which Nikos had better not know . |
| 7 | Again , though , there were some things which she was not well enough acquainted with him to mention — especially now that she knew who her Good Samaritan of yesterday was . |
| 8 | But there were some things one did not think about because they were unimaginable . |
| 9 | There were some things you did n't tell even your friends . |
| 10 | She hated to be made to think in this way ; but there were some things you had to think of with your mind , when you could n't straightforwardly see them with your hands , to deal with them then and there . |
| 11 | Of course , there were some things she could not know about . |
| 12 | But there were some things it was hopeless to discuss with him . |
| 13 | Well , I say a small town , it was more of a village really , but I live in Mannheim now , since my parents died … anyway , when things came to a head , I failed to support her , though I agreed with her really — up to a point that is , there were some things I disagreed with her about . |
| 14 | It 's just that there were some things I needed to clear up with her about her husband 's estate . |
| 15 | True , there were some things he did n't like about the Khedive 's regime , the patronage , the corruption , the inefficiency . |
| 16 | There were some questions he urgently wanted an answer to . |
| 17 | Well , you had to feed it you know erm Then there was this erm er sort of a whipping in in there was a long trough leading to the knife and then there were some cogwheels which pulled it into the knife . |
| 18 | There were some problems which the Public Assistance Committee was able to unload without regret . |
| 19 | Just a case of reminding there were some problems it 's been a little bit slow because of roadworks on the high street in Banbury as usual because of that water board work that 's continuing . |
| 20 | Ironically , there were some respondents who said that they would have preferred to have kept on working in order to remain healthy . |
| 21 | There were some women he wanted her to take relief to . |
| 22 | There were some women who simply had to take the unfortunate literally to their breast . |
| 23 | While literature and religion stressed the moral causes of insanity , there were some commentators who , working from pure observation , suggested other causes , physiological or emotional . |
| 24 | On the other hand , it was sometimes difficult to be certain of this , for there were some lairds who took a very unfavourable view of such officers , and there was a danger that a politician who desired to win a friend might make a mortal enemy . |
| 25 | But there were some rules he knew better than she ever would . |
| 26 | In the Commons debate which followed the ministerial announcement , there were some MPs who welcomed the demise of ‘ a nonsensical curriculum development body that has done nothing but damage education over the years ’ . |
| 27 | But there were some characters who , for one reason or another , I have cause to remember . |
| 28 | The opinions of staff and governors were sought and although there were some reservations it was decided that a questionnaire should be distributed to parents . |
| 29 | There were some wives who played a more active role , taking part regularly in milking and undertaking the bookkeeping . |
| 30 | While acknowledging that there were some schools which had built up a good range of resources and had successfully integrated their school library with the teaching and learning taking place in the school , it appeared at this time that many demonstrated one or all of the following basic problems : |