Example sentences of "[noun] be [v-ing] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Many local authorities are running some sort of shopmobility scheme , ’ said Mr Tapper . |
| 2 | Brockwell Yarns are introducing some new and exciting colours to their wonderful range of yarns . |
| 3 | It could be that the outer estates are approaching some kind of basic ‘ subsistence , level , where disposable income has reached such a low level that future increases in unemployment will begin to have a smaller effect in reducing local incomes per head , simply because so many people are already dependent on state benefits . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , Paul Nicholas is still posing for pictures , the musicians are doing some last minute rehearsals and the sombre looking safety men continue to look grim . |
| 5 | Many English stick dances , like those elsewhere , are believed to be ancient rituals in which the performers are enacting some job necessary for the well-being of the community . |
| 6 | ‘ Getting away with it ’ , of course , means something only if the bats are adopting some kind of Tit for Tat strategy . |
| 7 | It has been suggested that the appropriate test is ‘ whether the parties are making some serious promises or undertakings ’ which are intended by them to be acted and relied upon . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , John does suffer from a hearing defect which er causes him loss of hearing and apparently when he puts his hearing aid in the speakers are causing some interference and a whistle within his ear . |
| 9 | There are still very few schools that have mixed ability groups in all of their first three years , but more and more schools are introducing some mixed ability groups in their first three years and about thirty per cent have mixed ability grouping in their first year now , something around fifteen per cent have mixed ability in the first three years . |
| 10 | Nevertheless their energy and inventiveness were getting some development experts excited . |
| 11 | This comment was made in the early 1980s , around the time when sociolinguistic methods were undergoing some changes . |
| 12 | ‘ Thing is , Barbs barged in at an inconvenient moment when my brothers were moving some stuff into my place , and they came over all paranoid and looked at her very old-fashioned , and while I know they would n't do anything to her , now she 's gone missing I ca n't help wondering . |
| 13 | Once again , it appears that the nature of the available remedies is having some effect on the character of the diagnosis . |
| 14 | ‘ You 're implying that the KGB is running some big operation in Romania . |
| 15 | King 's College is facing some difficulty today and the Whittington had problems yesterday . |
| 16 | The motorbike industry is facing some hot competition — from the Chinese . |
| 17 | DG is funding some of the development work on Medley , something which IBM is also expected to do . |
| 18 | I think Lady Eleanor was nursing some secret but she would tell no one . ’ |
| 19 | Up in my father 's room , Dr Meredith was making some notes and Mrs Mortimer weeping bitterly . |
| 20 | Creed was showing some of the pieces to the tourist and explaining how they worked . |
| 21 | Looking back , I fancy that when I went skiing I always hoped that the snow was covering some kindly grass , certainly not something as hard and painful as the arres of Pierre-Saint-Martin . |
| 22 | Within a year Labour was recapturing some of the political ground which it had lost at the local elections in November 1931 . |
| 23 | One of the intruders was straggling some half mile behind the rest , so this was attacked by the newly-promoted Flt.Lt . |
| 24 | The water companies are investing some £28 billion between now and the end of this century . |
| 25 | My parents were discussing some incident in the past and , when I joined in the conversation to ask some question , they told me , as they often had on similar occasions , ‘ Of course , that was before you were born . ’ |
| 26 | No it were Monday when in here cos I was oh I were , Gavin were wanting some toast with jam on and I 'd only got a little bit like that , I says oh you 'll have to wait while your Aunty Margaret brings some more tomorrow . |
| 27 | Among those on income support only 22 per cent were receiving any maintenance , which represents a substantial fall since 1979 , when half of lone parents on supplementary benefit were receiving some maintenance . |
| 28 | In the 1820s Constable and Turner were painting some of their most innovative pictures . |
| 29 | On the top floor she stood looking out of the dormer windows across the London skyline , and then downwards through the burgeoning green tracery of sycamore trees to where daffodils were blooming and a woman and a child were feeding some pigeons . |
| 30 | As a codicil to this I should tell you that at the same time in another part of the camp , the National Union of Miners were holding some sort of conference themselves . |