Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] to some " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is , according to Quinn , no single moment ( or relatively short period ) in which all the different aspects of the company are considered together and then each part given precise goals for the foreseeable future according to some tight , analytical , holistic master plan . |
| 2 | And yet , in real terms , the percentage share of the market that desktop publishing software occupies is very small , less than 10% according to some of the market research , compared with such stalwarts as word processing , databases and spreadsheets . |
| 3 | We should perhaps remember that , before the advent of television , the five-day week and DIY superstores , crowds , even for the smallest clubs , often exceeded 3,000 and for an important derby match during the 1930s Whaddon could easily pull in 120,000 fans according to some of the club 's more senior supporters . |
| 4 | He said in any system there was bound to be a turnover leading to some vacant homes . |
| 5 | He said in any system there was bound to be a turnover leading to some vacant homes . |
| 6 | They found one entry referring to some specific survey station that read : " See Mrs Jones at the farm ; she knows where it is . " |
| 7 | If a situation is deemed to be inequitable then it is in principle possible to redistribute income according to some appropriate canon of equity . |
| 8 | In both cases there 's a facility for storing data , for performing operations according to some sort of program , and for telling the operator the results . |
| 9 | I should think that all of us have had the unfortunate experience at some time or other of sitting on a plastic interlocking chair in a draughty hall listening to some old wind bag droning on endlessly to screens of projected OHP transparencies that no one can clearly see . |
| 10 | The way we have chosen the symbols T and S also means , conveniently , that trajectories threading their way through the top face of the box B according to some sequence of Ts and Ss , make the same sequence of passes through the tubes , T and S. |
| 11 | Early morning 's not my best time , specially when I 've spent half the night dreaming terrible dreams and the other half listening to some loon droning on about turtles in Japan — but it was great dawdling along by the river . |
| 12 | craft and practical work leading to some experience of design and technology and of solving problems ; |
| 13 | There was a darkness , a sinister menace clinging to some of them , as if simply to touch them might call up dreadful visions and evil forces . |
| 14 | This recalls the habitual remark of youngsters admitting to some misdemeanor performed under the influence of another : He made me do it ! , which would be significantly different from He forced me to do it which implies an action one was pushed into by means of force rather than one performed under coercion . |
| 15 | I began to wonder whether or not I had been the victim of an extended delusion , which was perhaps the function of an overheated adolescence leading to some kind of psycho-hormonal explosion . |
| 16 | The Baskan Valley rises at the foot of Elbrus , with its subsidiary valleys of Cheget , Adyl Su and Adyr Su leading to some of the most spectacular climbing available . |
| 17 | So I came on the Monday night to the Guild and it , it was n't long after , only a matter of weeks , before this lady erm she er came back home from Canada seeing to some other woman and er she just sat down and died . |
| 18 | TASK 6 required children to write instructions and explanations relating to some game familiar to them . |
| 19 | An integral part of any theory of personhood concerns inner states of all kinds , and I shall be centring my discussion on indigenous ideas relating to some inner states important to the Chewong , an understanding of which , I shall argue , is necessary in order to understand their interpersonal behaviour and associated values . |
| 20 | This is not merely a matter of tiresome tolerance according to some airy-fairy principle of political philosophy . |
| 21 | The club paid him the princely sum of £8 , a fee that has not risen much over the years according to some of Celtic 's more dour stars . |
| 22 | I should make clear that this analysis is not predicated upon the assumption that the courts have always attempted to apply the jurisdictional/non-jurisdictional distinction according to some logical criteria . |
| 23 | These costs amounting to some , seventy thousand pounds in nineteen ninety-three , ninety- four . |
| 24 | France and West Germany had presented a proposal for an immediate co-ordinated financial aid package amounting to some US$15,000 million , but the USA had argued that it could not commit itself to direct aid until the Soviet Union had reduced military spending , moved more forcefully to a market economy and curtailed its aid to Cuba . |
| 25 | The first part of the dream involved being in a room talking to some friends . |
| 26 | A year ago Japan held an international meeting on aid for Mongolia , which produced pledges amounting to some $120m in credits and aid , some of it emergency assistance to keep Mongolia 's lights on ( literally ) . |
| 27 | But look at individuals , rather than averages , and you see interesting things happening to some of the peasants ' lives . |
| 28 | An alternative approach would break up the organisation according to some other criteria but implement each section in turn and allow for integration later . |
| 29 | A number of authorities had reorganised before the reforms leading to some difficulties , according to John Findlay , social services officer of NALGO . |
| 30 | When unschooled children group the members of an array according to some such criterion as ‘ red ’ or ‘ round ’ , they reveal exactly the higher processes of ‘ abstraction ’ even if their language use stops short of explicitness . |