Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] in some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But superimposed on this background were brief ‘ bursts ’ of high-frequency activity , in which whole ensembles of cells were firing in some sort of rhythmic synchrony ( Figure 10.10 ) . |
| 2 | Annette Dolphin , working with Tim Bliss , showed that , when the perforant pathway is stimulated in vivo , there is an increased release of glutamate in the hippocampus , and the biochemical mechanisms of this release were mapped in some detail by Marina Lynch . |
| 3 | All Were injured in some way like me . |
| 4 | He wondered it if were connected in some way with the fouling of the water system . |
| 5 | Our exhibition filled two floors in a dilapidated warehouse in which squatters , mainly British , were living in some squalor ; the other exhibitions were in houses , old shops , small factory spaces , offices and warehouses . |
| 6 | What and they were matched in some way ? |
| 7 | The absence of a non-Roman catholic school in the immediate area and the naïve belief that they were empowered in some way to have a say in what type of school should appear on their housing estate — there was a small Roman catholic school which was to be expanded to cater for the growth of the population — may have sharpened catholic parents ' interest in having an integrated school . |
| 8 | Roughly a third of the population are estimated to have suffered directly from the bombing : more than a quarter of homes in Germany were damaged in some way ; fourteen million persons lost some property through bombing ; between seventeen and twenty millions were deprived at some time of electricity , gas , or water ; nearly five millions had to evacuate because of ‘ air terror ’ ; 305,000 people were killed . |
| 9 | Approximately 800 of Kuwait 's 950 oil wells were damaged in some way by the Iraqi forces , as were the country 's three oil refineries . |
| 10 | better knowledge ( because of the database — 18 per cent of new debts were linked in some way to debts already known ) |
| 11 | The languages of earth — English , Italian , Hindustani and Chinese particularly — were known in some variation everywhere , though it seemed the Autarch — who had come to power in the confusion following the failed Reconciliation — favoured English , which was the preferred linguistic currency almost everywhere now . |
| 12 | Goody himself in a later essay points out that ‘ at least during the last 2,000 years the vast majority of peoples of the world ( most of Eurasia and much of Africa ) have lived in neither kind of situation , but in cultures which were influenced in some degree by the circulation of the written word , by the presence of groups or individuals who could read or write ’ ( 1968 , p. 4 ) . |
| 13 | Even in areas outside this great span — in Australia for example , the South Pacific or Amerindia — the main detailed knowledge that we have of these cultures is — almost by definition — in neither kind of situation , but in cultures which were influenced in some degree by the circulation of the written word , by the presence of groups or individuals who could read or write . |
| 14 | These issues were discussed in some detail by the Select Committee on the Coal Industry . |
| 15 | All three Titford sisters — Ann , Sarah and Mary — were together in Whittox Lane when the census man called in 1841 , and all three , poor relief or not , were engaged in some kind of gainful employment as ‘ wire dappers ’ or ‘ wire setters ’ . |
| 16 | Some thousands of searches were logged automatically , and about a thousand were studied in some detail . |
| 17 | Most , like their predecessors , were armoured in some way , with heavy scales attached to bony plates in the skin , and they had fearsome teeth in their jaws . |
| 18 | This system was to continue in some form right up until the present day , through wars and periods of anarchy , even surviving long periods where powerful Emperors manipulated the elective body in the interests of their own family . |
| 19 | The launch of the Front was placed in some jeopardy when on Oct. 17 the Azanian People 's Organization ( AZAPO ) denounced 14 of the organizations taking part in the conference for either having participated in apartheid structures or for their racial make-up . |
| 20 | I was told at the Bar that in section 25 application cases hearsay evidence was regarded in some family proceedings courts as not admissible . |
| 21 | In Chapter 8 the structure of the English syllable was examined in some detail . |
| 22 | An inquest was held at the Five Bells in January 1905 into an accident at Hailing Manor works when William Chalker was crushed in some machinery while working with John Burgess . |
| 23 | This was to compensate in some way for the rather poor salaries . |
| 24 | The decline of community and the rise of a society in which association was becoming in some sense secondary can also be seen as reflecting some of the profound social and spatial changes that were actually taking place in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries . |
| 25 | As Wilson mentions , she had recently had a harrowing shock , so it is possible that she was hallucinating in some way and that , by chance , her hallucinations corresponded approximately with historical reality . |
| 26 | She might have had a brief illness best treated outside the home , or it is possible that the balance of her mind was disturbed in some way . |
| 27 | Clearly the Order was prepared in some haste , but it can not be brushed aside as having been made out of an excess of caution . |
| 28 | On one side of the fireplace a grey-haired woman was absorbed in some needlework whilst on the other side , with her back to us , a young girl crouched over a book , loudly reciting a French poem in a voice shot through with gaiety and laughter . |
| 29 | He was just about to speak when he became aware that Willie was absorbed in some task . |
| 30 | Initial excavations indicate that it was related in some way to the others , but had no buildings within the rampart . |