Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The estimated cost of all these improvements amounted to some £18,000 . |
| 2 | In the early days both methods co-existed for some time in Great Britain , but the adherents of each method campaigned against one another here and elsewhere in Europe until towards the close of the nineteenth century , when oralism for the time being triumphed in all European countries . |
| 3 | Whenever I seemed to advance towards him , my steps deviated in some way . |
| 4 | The commodities boom had increased many less developed countries ' ( LDC ) export earnings , and imports rose with some lag . |
| 5 | His mouth opened and closed while portraits of notables revolved on some sort of belt contraption behind him and my mind strayed to Phil Collins 's story about the time he went up and asked Steve Davis for an autograph : ‘ He did n't even glance at me , just sent me off to get a pen , and then signed his name , still without looking at me . |
| 6 | Despite allaying concerns felt by some teachers , the adviser did not play down the accountability purpose to the exercise , nor was the self-appraisal presented as much more than providing factual information and describing their policy and practice . |
| 7 | Usually God 's blessing on the fruit of the land is sought , with a reading and prayers said in some field or farmyard . |
| 8 | Eventually the convulsions subsided to some extent and he could hear what she was saying . |
| 9 | It may be right to guess that Athens ' ambitious foreign policy of this period , which includes diplomacy with a non-Greek town far in the interior of Sicily ( ML 37 = Fornara 81 , an alliance with Segesta in 457 ) , was forced on her by the need to seek alternative supplies of corn , because her usual overseas sources had for some reason become precarious . |
| 10 | But he may find his new sporting pursuits bunkered by some retirement activity he had n't planned on . |
| 11 | The related issue of inflation and interest rates led to some disagreement on fiscal policy between Alan Greenspan , chairman of the Federal Reserve Board , and the Bush administration . |
| 12 | Other aggressive sales training techniques lingered in some firms . |
| 13 | Arguments started on some fisheries when match organisers and pleasure anglers tried to fish venues usually left for freelance angling . |
| 14 | Discussions with representative bodies resulted in some amendments to the proposals , notably the inclusion of a ‘ matching ’ provision to allow exchange differences on a borrowing , which ‘ match ’ those on a non-monetary asset , to be deferred until the asset is disposed of . |
| 15 | Between September and December 1929 share values fell by some $40 000 million , and this time there was no recovery . |
| 16 | THE TITLE says it all : the ‘ stolen continents ’ were the lands in North , Central and South America where gentle loving souls lived in some sort of earthly paradise , happily harvesting luxuriant crops and enjoying a stable regime with only ‘ low-key ’ wars . |
| 17 | If expectations of the general level of prices rose to some level between P and P 2 then there would be some stimulus to output and some rise in prices . |
| 18 | Progress towards political diversity under Vietnam 's , primarily economic , Doi Moi or " rejuvenation " campaign [ see p. 36696 ] suffered a number of setbacks during the latter half of 1989 , as CPV leaders reacted with some unease at the trend towards pluralism among their communist allies in Eastern Europe . |
| 19 | As already mentioned , the Irish bishops had for some time found the separation of church and state both a workable and desirable solution . |
| 20 | Many who had earlier worked against Scottish interests had for some time been making covert approaches and promises through envoys between the two Courts . |
| 21 | He recognized that the plebs participated to some extent in the affairs of the city ( 6.4.5 ) . |
| 22 | On the first day of the Ajdabiyan ballot many young men went to some length to insist that what was about to occur was closer to Athenian practice than anything that could possibly occur in Britain ; their disappointment at the outcome of the day was movingly transparent . |
| 23 | Cistercian abbeys fell to some extent outside this category . |
| 24 | ‘ Pickles ran into some friends and was trying to make up a party to go dancing tonight . |
| 25 | The fact that the applicants in the main proceedings had for some time circumvented the objectives of the Common Fisheries Policy did not give them any legitimate expectation that they would be allowed to continue to do so in the future . |
| 26 | Relations between the communist states had for some time been less amicable than a common dedication to working-class interests might have suggested . |
| 27 | But by the nineteenth century knowledge itself had expanded so rapidly , and interest in locating published accounts of very specific knowledge units had developed so greatly , that all previous expedients had to some extent broken down , and the new public libraries proliferating in the UK , the USA , and elsewhere gave an added impetus to invention . |
| 28 | Yeah I got some work and me boys got on some post putting up , he said , but mind you , it might er dry up I do n't know , it looks a bit er , thick does n't it ? |
| 29 | Once on the walkway the gallant band of adventurers proceeded with some difficulty , since the hairiest one was feeling far from gallant or adventurous . |
| 30 | Middle class commentators went to some pains to emphasise the importance of the wife 's role . |