Example sentences of "was [verb] in some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I was told at the Bar that in section 25 application cases hearsay evidence was regarded in some family proceedings courts as not admissible . |
| 4 | In Chapter 8 the structure of the English syllable was examined in some detail . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This was to compensate in some way for the rather poor salaries . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He was just about to speak when he became aware that Willie was absorbed in some task . |
| 13 | Initial excavations indicate that it was related in some way to the others , but had no buildings within the rampart . |
| 14 | It was written in some exasperation by Frederick Midgeod as a result of his experiences presumably with a Model T Ford during his time in what was the Gold Coast and is now Ghana . |
| 15 | He was preserved in some kind of fluid , like an olive or a pickled onion , and had a baffled look about him . |
| 16 | It is a formidable feat of timing , comparable to a clever trick that was used in some fighter planes during the First World War . |
| 17 | In the remainder of the cases in the first two teams , either no service was offered , service was declined by the client , or the assessment was preempted in some way ( for example , by the client entering hospital ) . |
| 18 | The elderly Chas Varley was peering in some confusion at an arc of screens which pulsed with read-outs and rippling waveforms . |
| 19 | ‘ And the first time the door to the viewing room was locked in some way ? ’ |
| 20 | If you compare The Smiths with the previous Great White Hopes of preceding eras , it 's clear that the rebellion of the Stones , Who , Pistols , jam , was based in some kind of activism or at least action , an optimism about the potential of collective or individual agency . |
| 21 | At the same time they implied a threat of punishment against the user if the coin was abused in some way . |
| 22 | This applies to a certain extent to the solution of the detailed stress distribution around a crack and until this was known in some detail it was not possible to predict what a crack would do when it met an inhomogeneity such as the interface between a fibre and a resin . |
| 23 | She found that the recipients fought hard against the idea that they were ‘ at the receiving end ’ and went to great lengths to ensure that their parents ' support was reciprocated in some way . |
| 24 | The initial response to the rioting by the LAPD was to withdraw in some confusion . |
| 25 | The phenomenon of certain mundane objects becoming so firmly associated with an individual that they are understood as literal extensions of that individual 's being was discussed in some detail by Levy-Bruhl ( 1966 : 100–27 ) . |
| 26 | The timing of training sessions was investigated in some depth and the importance of fitting the training to a particular time of year and to a particular size of training package at specific times of day was revealed . |
| 27 | Children performed better when the day was structured in some way . |
| 28 | As soon as a ‘ lift ’ of fish was telegraphed in some fashion by the scouts , the whole flock would take flight and head unerringly to wherever the action was . |
| 29 | I responded as usual by smiling slightly — sufficient at least to indicate that I was participating in some way with the good-humouredness with which he was carrying on — and waited to see if my employer 's permission regarding the trip would be forthcoming . |
| 30 | Changez 's left arm was withered in some way , and stuck on the end of the attenuated limb was a lump of hard flesh the size of a golf ball , a small fist , with only a tiny thumb projecting from the solid mass where there should have been nimble , shop-painting , box-carrying fingers . |