Insert the most suitable part of speech: noun or verb.

1. The boat seemed to bump against some solid .
2. His was to gain time until help could arrive.
3. If anyone if we started the meeting now?
4. I’ll take care of it, unless anyone .
5. Chin and India formally to the peace plan.
5. There are 4000 in the museum’s collection.
6. Investigation of business prospects is the of his trip to China.
7. Some persons that the proposed law would harm world trade.
8. Her personal life was the of curiosity and pity.