Example sentences of "[vb past] that [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fitzgerald found that for some books , an increase to six or even nine samples actually produced means which systematically departed even further from the population mean — the true overall difficulty level , Only after the number of samples taken approached or exceeded the critical number did the mean of the samples agree with the population mean . |
| 2 | Instead of finding Whites had more favourable attitudes to the police than Blacks , and had been stopped , etc. , less ( as found in the studies of larger areas ) , we found that on some measures Whites were similar to Blacks in their attitude and experience , though there was still a tendency for Blacks to be less favourable to the police . |
| 3 | They found that in some patients , self-cutting could be prevented by the provision of physical contact by a therapist , such as in putting an arm round the patient . |
| 4 | The court found that in some ill-defined circumstances aborigines had ‘ native title ’ over some land in the islands where Mr Mabo and his group live . |
| 5 | The evaluators found that in some schools library committees had become moribund , and although this was often blamed on industrial action , some people did seem to have lost interest once they had received and spent their grant . |
| 6 | And I found that in some respects that became negative you know … in some ways that also screwed the lesson |
| 7 | The MMC ( 1980 : 97 ) found that in some guards ' depots , twelve-hour days were routinely worked , and that , apparently , ‘ those staff who wish to work their Sundays mostly have the opportunity to do so every other Sunday without strict regard to the numbers actually required to operate train services ’ . |
| 8 | As late as January 1923 Pravda reported that in some villages in the Saratov guberniia 80 to 85 per cent of the population were still starving . |
| 9 | In April 1983 , teachers reported that in some areas they had not been paid for four months and 828 schools had been closed down . |
| 10 | The Ministry said that 97.25 per cent of the electorate of approximately 11,000,000 had voted , and reported that in some areas , including in the disputed Western Sahara , there were 100 per cent " yes " votes . |
| 11 | And in that moment I realized that by some deep-rooted instinct I was already doing the right thing . |
| 12 | In a 4,000 word decision , the Californian Court of Appeal ruled that in some instances the threat of homosexual rape is fearsome enough for a prisoner to seek justifiably to escape from jail — The Times . |
| 13 | They always want to follow legal procedures up to a point , when even they realised that without some kind of help from other unions they were not going to win this strike . |
| 14 | She realised that at some level she had always known this , since otherwise she could not have recovered so quickly . |
| 15 | He was dressed more casually , and , just as he looked good — and then some — in a business suit , Leith realised that to some women his tall , casually clad self was quite something more . |
| 16 | On March 3 King Hassan announced that at some time prior to the legislative elections which were scheduled for Oct. 9 , 1992 , constitutional changes to establish a better balance between legislative and executive bodies would be put to a referendum . |
| 17 | I argued that on some occasions there might simply not be enough acoustic information to make a decision , and cited psycholinguistic experiments on the intelligibility of words in certain contexts . |
| 18 | He argued that in some markets the lumpy nature of demand made it essential that contracts be shared out , to ensure that the competitors were not exposed to the risk of alternating ‘ feast and famine ’ in their order books . |
| 19 | said that that there was no generally accepted international meaning of the phrase ; he recognised that in some jurisdictions , public law matters were regarded as outside the categories of civil and commercial , but that this was not universally the case ; he , but not the other members of the court , felt that there was insufficient evidence as to the approach of Norwegian law , but was prepared to give the request the benefit of the doubt . |
| 20 | Wherever possible rents should be at ‘ full economic levels ’ , but the government recognised that in some areas this would put rents beyond the means of many tenants and some degree of subsidy might be necessary . |
| 21 | However , the Middle East Economic Digest of Oct. 26 noted that in some quarters it was being interpreted as " a gambit to force parliament to commute the sentences , thereby improving Turkey 's international image " . |
| 22 | He acknowledged that in some cases it could be hundreds of pounds extra but argued that people would still be allowed to go to law . |
| 23 | These figures were produced in support of the employers ' position in the course of a bitter wage dispute ; the weavers claimed that on some types of cloth they could hardly make 4d ( 2p ) a day . |
| 24 | This was the series of reports which showed that round some nuclear sites there was a higher incidence of childhood cancers , especially leukaemia . |
| 25 | Marsh showed that in some glasses there is incipient devitrification even when they are new . |
| 26 | The vulnerability of developing economies , especially in Africa , was also highlighted in a worldwide study conducted by the London-based Panos Institute whose findings , released on Nov. 26 , showed that in some African countries , notably Uganda and Zambia , AIDS had largely destroyed " the most productive sector " of the population . |
| 27 | One study , focused on Leicester , showed that in some areas more than 90 per cent of ponds had been drained . |
| 28 | They also observed that for some of those youngsters subsequently the change of direction brought only short-lived renaissance of interest and motivation before the same boredom and lack of achievement returned . |
| 29 | She knew he was being evasive and sensed that in some way he was trying to protect her . |
| 30 | Though it stated its hope that planning authorities would allocate sufficient land , it warned that in some cases it might have to take the initiative and , if local authorities refused planning permission , go to appeal . |