Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [v-ing] [prep] some [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problems are most acute in Africa where population pressures are also greatest , though modification of South American savannas is increasing ; desertification is occurring in some areas as a result of overgrazing . |
| 2 | Benjamin Jowett ( 181793 ) , Master of Balliol College , Oxford , and one of the modernizing dons who supported endeavours to extend university education and to attract men from new social classes to Oxford , considered that " classical study is getting in some respects worn out , and the plan proposed [ the introduction of English Language and Literature at Oxford ] would breathe new life into it . |
| 3 | I looked up and the light was shining through some leaves across his face . |
| 4 | In one of those asides , Johnson with the eye of a painter gives the last glimpse of these high ways in 1773 : ‘ Once we saw a corn field , in which a lady was walking with some gentlemen … ’ |
| 5 | There was one large stone farmhouse , outside which a small dark-haired girl was playing with some kittens by an empty farm-cart . |
| 6 | The first thing was to find a school for you three — for six months you had had no teaching , except what I could give you , and then kind Miss Budden , the headmistress at Auckland House school , Simla , said she could take you if I could come too and help her nurse about twenty children down with measles in the san. , because Matron was coping with some children with suspected diphtheria in another block . |