Example sentences of "some [noun] [vb base] be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some groups have been buying into the new sites — as House of Fraser , which owns Harrods , has done at Meadowhall in Sheffield — but such an expensive strategy requires cool nerves in the present recession . |
| 2 | Perhaps in an effort to justify this simplification , some instructors have been warning against the use of the rudder to stop the yaw if a wing drops at the stall . |
| 3 | In rural areas , as in urban areas , some alternatives have been developing to the three main tenure groups . |
| 4 | The first is that some cricketers have been cheating for years in a most blatant manner . |
| 5 | Well some people have been talking about five to seven years , I 've been saying all the way through that we 're very flexible on this , and clearly if erm a bidder whether it 's a management buy out with other people in the bid , others in the consortium , or an outright bid from a private sector consortium er if if they get the franchise and make clear that that 's on the basis that they 're going to put a lot of money into the capital investment , then clearly they will want a longer period and we have made that clear . |
| 6 | It is also considered unlucky to pay the whole of a doctor 's bill , a superstition which may prove important as the years go by , considering what some people say is happening to the NHS . |
| 7 | ‘ There is no magic solution to this issue and employees who smoke will need to harness their own willpower , but the ban could be the kind of incentive that some smokers have been waiting for to help them reduce or stop smoking and improve their general health . ’ |
| 8 | And they would then sell these goods at high prices to those buyers who have not discovered that some sellers have been selling for low prices . |