Example sentences of "[noun] is [v-ing] some " in BNC.

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1 Once again , it appears that the nature of the available remedies is having some effect on the character of the diagnosis .
2 ‘ You 're implying that the KGB is running some big operation in Romania .
3 King 's College is facing some difficulty today and the Whittington had problems yesterday .
4 The motorbike industry is facing some hot competition — from the Chinese .
5 DG is funding some of the development work on Medley , something which IBM is also expected to do .
6 AT THE University of Centreville , Maryland , a research programme which its director admits he obtained the money for by a far from rare academic tactic is showing some surprising results about human behaviour .
7 H3 is hard to study under trial conditions since any school agreeing to help with trials is making some commitment to look at the materials beyond the norm .
8 This proposal is meeting some resistance at the UN 's headquarters in New York .
9 IBM is licensing some Wollongong Group networking technology for use in future products .
10 Doctors say Mr Crowther is showing some improvement but he 's still seriously ill .
11 When this behaviour is seen for the first time , the owners may become seriously concerned , imagining that the cat is having some kind of fit or seizure .
12 And I think it is a great pity , that this council is losing some of it 's capacity to produce reports which are independent of the departments which are the most affected by them .
13 On many occasions assessments will be carried out because it is suspected that a child is experiencing some difficulty with linguistic communication , or because there are other areas of functioning in which the child is having difficulty which may have implications for language development .
14 That 's why er many authors insist on that aspect of child sex abuse , that erm apparent consent or even y'know when it seems that the child is expressing some curiosity about that these activities , nevertheless it 's abusive .
15 However , it seems that leave is refused for between a quarter and a third of all AJRs , and this might suggest that the leave requirement is performing some other function such as keeping the number of pending AJRs down so that the delay between the granting of leave and the hearing is not too great .
16 That organisations as diverse as shipbuilding , meat processors , training agencies and hotels saw fit to participate must be encouraging and some degree of recognition that marketing as a business philosophy is making some impact on the Scottish psyche .
17 As for your acceptance of the Spanish government 's line that ETA is planning some sort of violence during the Olympics , the discovered documents do not prove anything .
18 Paper Tiger is spending some £10,000 on a promotion for its graphic and fantasy art list in April .
19 So not surprisingly CBF head Wendy Cooling is introducing some changes to the procedure .
20 Mr Dickens is doin' some good . ’
21 Apparently Miss Duncan is having some kind of attack , and she asked for Niall . ’
22 I feel that somewhere over my head is hanging some kind of spirituality .
23 I feel that somewhere over my head is hanging some kind of spirituality-ometer , and that I have been found wanting .
24 I know Mrs. Butler is making some .
25 But the emphasis on new priorities is troubling some of its traditional clientele .
26 The fluke is exerting some hidden chemical influence on the snail that forces the snail to shift away from its own ‘ preferred ’ thickness of shell .
27 But admirable as this bon mot may be , the widespread use of the necessary techniques is causing some anxiety .
28 The Atomic Energy Authority is giving some of its protective equipment to the Ukraine to help with the continuing clean-up operation at Chernobyl .
29 The total for 1992 will be around 12.5 million and for the year 2000 the airport authority is projecting some 22 million .
30 ‘ Perhaps your father is having some sort of mid-life crisis … possibly all is not well .
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