Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [v-ing] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then of course the difficulty arises because these are difficult times , there is a recession , people are losing their jobs day by day and we did n't think it was appropriate to start applying some guillotine on people 's election rights and their membership of the committee . |
| 2 | Both of these involve culturing some cells from the baby so they can be tested for genetic abnormalities . |
| 3 | These included creating some kind of social security for women artists and making available to them a basic training . |
| 4 | Erm I do n't know that 's , this is not in any official stats books but it 's just my experience with students ' projects that if you get more than , there 's a sort of critical mass of about , about forty respondents and then you 're much more likely to start showing some interesting statistically significant findings for some reason , erm I do n't quite know why but er it 's one of life 's little mysteries but er so that 's usually if there 's a lot of numerical data what I 'd try and advise people to er to get . |
| 5 | The report , by Richard Wilding , former head of the Office of Arts and Libraries , is likely to recommend merging some regional arts organisations . |
| 6 | To lose weight means changing your diet , and to do that means changing some of your shopping habits . |
| 7 | Some of the following may be repetitive to some extent , and the reader is asked to excuse this as the writer finds it difficult to avoid repeating some of his thoughts in a subject so fraught with difficulties of explanation , and covering such a wide field . |
| 8 | Further problems may arise that are orthographical in origin : a. a familiar letter is used to represent a different sound , e.g. the letter " r " in English " rat " and Portuguese " rato " b. a letter is used but the sound is not pronounced , e.g. Spanish " h " as in " hoja — leaf c. a combination of letters is used to represent a single sound , e.g. final im in written Portuguese is pronounced d. a single letter is used to represent two sounds , e.g. in Portuguese the letter " x " is used for [ z ] in " exame " , and for [ s ] in " caixa " As your sounds get checked , decisions about phonemes made , and you 've compared the phoneme charts , you are ready to start putting some of the words from your check list into pronunciation drills . |