Example sentences of "was [adj] [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Failure was due to some weakness or perversity peculiar to the individual " . |
| 2 | The law provides that if a member of a local authority fails throughout a period of six consecutive months to attend any meeting of the local authority he shall , unless the failure was due to some reason approved by the local authority before the expiry of that period , cease to be a member of the authority . |
| 3 | Mother 's success was due in some part to her brother , my uncle , Charles Chipchase , who went to London in the 1920s and got into conversation with a newspaper reporter . |
| 4 | Hal , while he was flipping over some burgers , ‘ turned a blind eye ’ and pretended not to notice her ‘ mistake ’ . |
| 5 | At the beginning of the 1980 's a typeface would have cost around $4,500 and you would probably have had to wait a couple of weeks while it was digitised from some master copy . |
| 6 | The proviso whereby it was possible for some individuals to enjoy an enhanced accrual scale to qualify for full pension benefits after 10 years of service was altered in the 1987 Budget — with a new period of 20 years ' service being required . |
| 7 | All of the grooms , except one who was asleep on some hay bales , had chosen not to sit in the car with their charges , and I imagined it was because of Leslie Brown 's daunting presence : racing lads on the whole felt a companionable devotion to their horses , and I would have expected more of them to be sitting on the hay bales during the day . |
| 8 | She spoke sharply , and her niece saw that she was upset for some reason . |
| 9 | Near the end of its life the houses nearer Century Street was derelict for some time . |
| 10 | The problem , neatly summarized by Blackaby ( 1980 ) , was that Britain 's collective bargaining structure lay betwixt and between two polar extremes : at one extreme was the highly centralized system which was prevalent in some countries of continental Europe ; at the other extreme was the model of atomistic competition in labour markets which appeared to feature only in textbooks . |
| 11 | But although Anselm was different in some ways , in most ways he was unaltered . |
| 12 | As he said to us 42 years later , ‘ I was interested in some kind of sense , that I descended from Aaron , that I was some kind of high priest . |
| 13 | Although Kennedy himself was interested in some sort of test ban , there was at best in Washington a tendency to regard the issue as " a bit of a sideshow " . |
| 14 | My Lord point eight , erm , the evidence it all goes to insurance points , solvency and protection of policy holders and in that regard two points , first of all why one can simply say V D S , secondly all their justifications , even if it 's true , the answer is V D S , but in any event they must sure even if , even if V D S was wrong in some way , they would have to show that the restrictions were the minimum necessary in order to achieve those legitimate policy objectives |
| 15 | Everyone 's position was dubious in some respect : no one had been able to stand aloof from the efforts of Philip and Mary to turn England back to popery , and all except the few convinced Romanists in the village hoped that the days of compulsory religion and inquisitions would now be over . |
| 16 | The space problem was relieved to some extent when the museum moved to its modern site in the late I820s , but natural history still rubbed shoulders with art and archaeology . |
| 17 | At least in Britain , the greatest of the imperial powers , this development was visible to some observers relatively early in the century . |
| 18 | This tower was visible from some way away , and with its backdrop of dark conifer-forested hills , it reminded me very much of the tower at Glendalough . |
| 19 | She was overdue for some leave , and she could go to France and make some enquiries . |
| 20 | Money was allocated for coaches and teacher supervision ( now that there are so many educational cutbacks on outings ) , special allowances for printing and photographic paper were made , as it was impossible for some schools to provide such basics . |
| 21 | I admit to feeling a little dubious regarding the adequacy of these small filtration units and this was well-founded in some respects as I discovered that although the two models are described as 35 and 55 gallon capacity no mention is made in the advertising that this refers to US gallons not Imperial . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , the new wealth was subject to some control through institutions which were central to the image of Arab government ( household , lineage ) even if the wider groupings were likely eventually to break down under the pressures of differentiation . |
| 23 | In the face of royal financial demands he had to bear in mind the interests of the clergy as well as his duty to the king , and he was subject to some pressure from the Pope to urge the king to pay heed to papal diplomatic overtures aimed at bringing an end to the war . |
| 24 | His face was flaky in some places , the texture of dried glue , while in others it bore the pin-prick traces of acne . |
| 25 | It may be , for example , that the experiment was flawed in some way or that the conclusion derived from its results was invalid . |
| 26 | " Oh , Dada , " she was conscious of some uneasiness — was he hurt by her refusal of one of his favourite sandwiches ? |
| 27 | I guess he was sick in some way . |
| 28 | Cultivation of the land was intensive in some areas ; and settlement quite dense . |
| 29 | But a child who was unusual in some way — a thin , undernourished-looking boy , for example , or a large , overnourished-looking girl — were liable to feel the pain of rejection . |
| 30 | To her horror and my shame I free fell 20 feet , landing on my back next to her , and was unconscious for some time . |