Example sentences of "is [v-ing] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the other legal deposit libraries , NLS is participating in a preservation microfilming project funded in part by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation , which is devoting some $2.5m to this purpose in the UK . |
| 2 | I feel that somewhere over my head is hanging some kind of spirituality . |
| 3 | I feel that somewhere over my head is hanging some kind of spirituality-ometer , and that I have been found wanting . |
| 4 | Crowood Press is reissuing some of the volumes of its useful Complete Guide series in paperback this month at £9.99 : six titles , at intervals from March to June . |
| 5 | The company now says that it is producing some 20 million metres of VHS tape per month — enough to fill more than 100 000 cassettes . |
| 6 | I do so again to counter the growing myth that Teesside is becoming some sort of earthly paradise a wonderland where industry and nature have achieved perfect harmony . |
| 7 | Either the commission intuitively knows how supply and demand will change — in which case the commission is miraculous but unnecessary — or else the commission is applying some other unspecified standards and judgements of its own — in which case the commission will be a tyrant if it can impose its decisions and a laughing stock if it can not . |
| 8 | The British government is paying about £16 million to modernise Greenham Common and Molesworth to take cruise missiles , and is contributing some 220 security guards . |
| 9 | An indifferent speller will know that some words cause him difficulty , and will ask for them ; but he will also think he is spelling some words correctly that he is , in fact , getting wrong . |
| 10 | Here too Anselm is adopting some part at least of the vocabulary of the new ecclesiastical theorists in describing the situation which Rufus had taken over from his father . |
| 11 | This proposal is meeting some resistance at the UN 's headquarters in New York . |
| 12 | But admirable as this bon mot may be , the widespread use of the necessary techniques is causing some anxiety . |
| 13 | Tecuya , is smaller , 165.9 g at birth on April 5 , and is causing some concern . |
| 14 | This is causing some difficulties . |
| 15 | I seek your guidance about a matter on today 's Order Paper that is causing some confusion . |
| 16 | However , the directive does not apply to low-powered PAL transmitters such as Luxembourg 's ASTRA satellite and the possibility of such PAL systems gaining ground over the direct broadcast MAC satellites is causing some concern over adopting MAC as the basis for HDTV standard ( HD-MAC ) . |
| 17 | The development of the ‘ virtual library ’ is causing some universities to re-examine their organisational structures to bring the range of stakeholders into a closer relationship . |
| 18 | A horse standing perfectly in the show ring , with its ears nicely pricked , may indicate that it is cross by pressing its lips tightly together , as if it is refusing some nasty-tasting medicine . |
| 19 | The women 's movement in America , using its principles of non-violent confrontation , is developing some of the most hopeful ways of working with prisoners accused of rape and violence against women and children . |
| 20 | Britain 's BT has its own global offerings , Syncordia and Cyclone , into which it is sinking some $100m . |
| 21 | That 's why er many authors insist on that aspect of child sex abuse , that erm apparent consent or even y'know when it seems that the child is expressing some curiosity about that these activities , nevertheless it 's abusive . |
| 22 | We look forward to his arrival in Britannia again and Boudicca is saving some good legs for him , — in fact they belong to a soldier of the IXth Legion who did n't hear her shout ‘ Get outta the way you stupid git ’ when she was trying her chariot out on the new road . |
| 23 | So a car developing 30 horsepower at 60 miles an hour is releasing some 90 kW of heat continuously into the air . |
| 24 | The lack of reaffirmation of their society thought to be implicit in the low fertility current in the Federal Republic of Germany is worrying some members of that society , quite apart from the obvious material consequences . |
| 25 | ‘ We would like to conclude [ the deal ] by the end of the financial year — but that is going some , ’ he said . |
| 26 | But the emphasis on new priorities is troubling some of its traditional clientele . |
| 27 | Mr Dickens is doin' some good . ’ |
| 28 | DG is funding some of the development work on Medley , something which IBM is also expected to do . |
| 29 | The tender is undergoing some further work and the boiler is the final obstacle in this protracted restoration . |
| 30 | She is wearing some beads now , hidden for the moment under her clothes . ) |