Example sentences of "[v-ing] some [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inadvertently reflecting some of the new-found ‘ posse ’ mentality , EV 's three writers sing their own songs , diffusing still further the four-square thrust of conventional rock with chiming , circular guitar runs ( a million miles away from indie 's dull scrubbing ) and rueful bass hums . |
| 2 | The simplest method is to switch off the lights and to lighten the shadow areas by reflecting some of the daylight back onto the subject . |
| 3 | The writer Valentin Rasputin , reflecting some of these concerns , went so far as to complain at the Congress of People 's Deputies in 1989 of ‘ Russophobia ’ on the part of other nationalities . |
| 4 | The group reviewed evidence that the warming effect might be delayed by the high levels of sulphur dioxide present in the atmosphere as a result of industrial pollution , on account of the gas 's property of reflecting some of the sun 's incoming heat . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The council is going to issue Bonsai World with a notice prohibiting some of it 's activities . |
| 7 | The time and expense involved in manufacturing some of the more individualistic pieces of metalwork may ultimately reflect the greater social standing of their users , and this must be appreciated when considering the controls over their distribution pattern . |
| 8 | Similarly the Shell enterprisal spawns glossy scriptures about community environmental projects that it will fund , while manufacturing some of the Planet 's most treacherous chemicals . |
| 9 | Cuthbertson also advanced the subject of electricity in the Netherlands , writing books , giving public lectures , and assisting some of the foremost Dutch scientists with their experiments . |
| 10 | No matter how bad the weather , you can always find some sheltered stretches , and there is normally the bonus of seeing some of the first swallows and martins of the year as well . |
| 11 | The third element that made Easy Rider the runaway , roaraway success that it became in the counter-culture movement was Jack Nicholson , angry and surely envious — though he denied it — at seeing some of his flash contemporaries and some younger actors making it very big indeed in the legitimacy of more sumptuous surroundings of Warners , Paramount , MGM and the rest . |
| 12 | It may also be that women have a greater need of seeing some of the qualities of the future . |
| 13 | ‘ I remember seeing some of those photos for the first time , I mean the ones with women with chicken heads laying eggs . |
| 14 | Once or twice during the Course he would make an excuse to come to collect something or other , and I think he enjoyed seeing some of the results of the teachers ' acquaintance with the displays . |
| 15 | ABC tracked me down after seeing some of the papers in my case and wanted to know if I could confirm what they 'd been told . |
| 16 | Each has at least had the consolation , if that is the appropriate word , of seeing some of his worst fears come to pass . |
| 17 | Well I suppose he might have asked some of the fitters , but I doubt it somehow seeing some of the acquisitions that he made from Llanberis when they were closing down there . |
| 18 | When it was first shown to the Buckinghamshire firm 's workforce it certainly created the right impression ; an achievment in a factory used to seeing some of the world 's most desireable cars . |
| 19 | The Duke , who is chancellor of the university , was given a tour of the veterinary centre 's laboratories before seeing some of animals used for research purposes , including a Shetland pony and a swamp buffalo . |
| 20 | Coarser gauges and of course knitting some of the more specialist yarns like Channel which in particular . |
| 21 | I was his assistant and when he wanted flowers he would send me to the Old Covent Garden at 4.30am to buy hundreds of pots of chrysanthemums which would then be sold off at the end of the day , thus serving a dual purpose as decoration and a means of recouping some of our costs . |
| 22 | Leave a message with my secretary about where you are and I 'll see about recouping some of your losses . |
| 23 | On Friday the US charge d'affaires in Beijing was summoned to the Foreign Ministry to hear a ‘ strong protest ’ about President Bush 's decision to execute by administrative means the provisions of a congressional bill he had vetoed , allowing some of the estimated 40,000 Chinese students in the US to extend their visas . |
| 24 | Allowing some of the built-up tension inside her to dissipate , she forced a mocking smile to her dry lips . |
| 25 | If you 're really rocking and rolling in the art department and you 're allowing some of the experiments to see their way into print , even if they 're not so , they do n't have that slick veneer that people seem to want in the marketing department , progress results and the rawness helps and the thing that makes Jack Stoffagers pages so wonderful is that they are unfiltered , you have the feeling that it 's the printer talking to you , determining something that he 's read , you know , he wants you to read . |
| 26 | The second part of study will focus on the problem areas identified in a number of firms through the initial survey ; the researchers will work with these firms to give small amounts of assistance aimed at easing some of the marketing bottlenecks . |
| 27 | By the end of the project we hoped that the pupils would produce a thirty-minute ‘ radio programme ’ on audio-tape , encompassing some of the materials , ideas and information they had accumulated during the project . |
| 28 | Just now during John 's absence I find amusement and employment in drawing some of the plants of the colony , which will help to render the work on Birds of Australia more interesting . |
| 29 | Bend your arms in front of you , so that you are resting some of your weight on your elbows . |
| 30 | Wolfe admitted handling some of the stolen money and was placed on probation for 18 months . |