Example sentences of "which [vb past] [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Goals from John Morrissey , John Aldridge and Neil McNab put paid to Southend in front of 5,870 fans , but there was a slack spell in the second half which led to some booing . |
| 2 | He was a conscientious and hard worker , filled with a sense of mission which led to some misinterpretation by the Whig-Liberal group . |
| 3 | The demonstration ( which led to some violence ) was organised by the " Stop State Snooping " committee , whose members included representatives of the Social Democratic Party , one of the four governing coalition parties . |
| 4 | A budget for the 1992-93 biennium , providing for expenditure of US$646,000,000 ( representing a cut in real terms of 4.6 per cent ) , was approved without major controversy [ see p. 37054 for 1989 budget disputes ] , and the USA undertook to pay before January 1992 its arrears for 1991 , which amounted to some $34,000,000 out of a total contribution of around $75,000,000 . |
| 5 | This may be compared to the total inflow of Japanese portfolio investment in the UK over 1986 Q1–1989 Q2 which amounted to some £23.2bn and total foreign inward investment of close to £50bn . |
| 6 | In 1938 I was offered a programme with full rehearsal and that I accepted , though when it came to the time I asked for separate section rehearsals — first strings , then winds — which met with some opposition , particularly as the orchestra was convinced that it knew the music already . |
| 7 | The binding of items emerged as the second most important reason for their non-availability , accounting for around one in five ( 21% ) of unsatisfied requests , while the Library 's inability to locate items when they were requested ( 10% ) , and a tendency for some readers to submit requests for items not appearing in the Library 's catalogues ( 10% ) were additional reasons which occurred with some frequency . |
| 8 | President 's rule was imposed in Meghalaya on Oct. 11 , ending a two-month crisis which erupted after some deputies switched loyalties and precipitated a power struggle between the ruling Meghalaya United Parliamentary Party ( MUPP ) and the Congress ( I ) -backed United Meghalaya Parliamentary Forum ( UMPF ) . |
| 9 | And she made a little dint in the ground which filled with some water and became a little pool for the snake to drink out . |
| 10 | FOR TWO DAYS I WENT ABOUT RACKING MY BRAINS FOR A PLOT OF ANY SORT ; – ON THE SECOND NIGHT I DREAMED THE SCENE AT THE WINK ) W , AND A SCENE AFTERWARD SPLIT IN TWO , IN WHICH HYDEPURSUED FOR SOME CRIME , TOOK THE POWDER AND UNDERWENT THE CHANGE IN THE PRESENCE OF HIS PURSUERS . |
| 11 | Consolidation has been accompanied by an increase in renting , a phenomenon which existed for some time in African shanty towns , before it became common in Latin America . |
| 12 | The Alpha 's ability to delete a whole effect from a patch ( or add another ) is a godsend , and I found it useful to dispense with the equaliser , which worked for some sounds but definitely not for others . |
| 13 | Then followed the 4500 , the first ribbing attachment — which worked on some days and not on others ( on the latter I would give up and stop knitting for the day ! ) . |
| 14 | This rethinking went on in episcopal households and monasteries as well as in some urban schools which survived in some areas well into the sixth century . |
| 15 | Within the AHA ranks was an influential caucus of members which functioned in some ways like the group of the political party in power within a local authority . |
| 16 | A gate set up by Tom Poole at the bottom of the Lime Street orchard led directly into his own garden , a small secluded area which lay at some distance behind Poole 's house in Castle Street and which –contained , beneath the shelter of a lime-tree , a jasmine-covered arbour . |
| 17 | Away from the river in every direction the ground was practically level , a plain covered by broad-bladed grass which grew in some places to waist height . |
| 18 | Last month saw the start of a three-part series by Patricia Spallone on genetic engineering ( GE ) , which looked at some applications on plants , bacteria , viruses and animals and the need for feminists to put biotechnology , the industrialisation of life on the political agenda . |
| 19 | This resulted in passage of flatus , which continued for some minutes . |
| 20 | We were still confined to our trenches due to the bombardment which continued for some time . |
| 21 | Similar assumptions were made by those authorities , like the London County Council , which had for some years been committed to the development of comprehension . |
| 22 | They came to the bank of the stream which had for some time been running unseen beside them . |
| 23 | The monastic reform movement did not reach north-west Mercia either , yet this area had not been much influenced by Scandinavian settlement , and it did eventually extend into East Anglia , which had to some degree been so affected . |
| 24 | These phrases do , however , have the ring of truth in an aesthetic sense — or rather there was an aesthetic process involved which had to some extent its own story . |
| 25 | And the gap which had to some extent been there from the beginning in popular consciousness between ‘ Hitler 's war ’ for racial empire and territorial aggrandisement , and the patriotic defence of the ‘ Fatherland ’ was widening . |
| 26 | ICL Plc has been been ringing the changes , not only with boardroom shuffles ( CI No 2,125 ) , but with a push towards what it calls more ‘ autonomous business groupings ’ and a greater emphasis on software and services , the area which accounted for some 60% of UK sales in 1992 . |
| 27 | Everyone stopped where they were and stared as she pointed dramatically at a dark green house plant which stood on some kind of plinth behind the seat she 'd been allocated . |
| 28 | This reinterpretation sets Keynes ' economics apart from the traditional equilibrium analysis of neo-classical theory which depended on some kind of tâtonnement process ( as described in Chapter 6 ) to ensure that all transactions took place in equilibrium . |