Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [v-ing] [prep] some [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The anti-dog programme is meeting with some encouraging success , using poisoned bait which is hidden under dark ledges . |
| 2 | While your subconscious mind is searching for some final point to include in the margins , go on to the final stage . |
| 3 | Particularly because it was only now , when he was so close to her , that every cell of her body was reacting in some primordial , incomprehensible way to his nearness , to the sheer magnetic pull of his very commanding presence , that she had become aware of the fantasy that had consumed her . |
| 4 | TRANMERE manager John King is looking for some special deliveries against Southend tonight . |
| 5 | As a result over-capacity was running at some 10 million tonnes a year and coal stocks ( including the 10 million tonne national coal reserve to safeguard West German energy supply ) were reaching levels of well over 30 million tonnes . |
| 6 | Lucy could n't find time to come over for an evening ; the globally significant exhibition was floating on some remote iceberg ; Jeremy had an agent , an opening ; Lucy 's sister was ill and needed her ( Jay recalled Lucy 's exasperated indifference to her sister ) ; the painters were coming . |
| 7 | By 1907 , the year that preceded the painting of the Baigneuse , Fauvism had already lost much of its original impetus , and Braque , like the other Fauves , had for some time been searching for some more solid basis for his art . |
| 8 | The field has already produced 650,000 barrels of oil and production is continuing at some 5,000 barrels a day — an excellent result , says Central Region production manager Mike Sigsworth . |
| 9 | His mam was dying of some rare disease which no doctor could cure and always , but always , proved fatal . |