Example sentences of "[adj] of [v-ing] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | 6–8–1880 Archibald Currie etc appeared and " mutually acknowledged that they had been guilty of quarrelling some time ago in a way scandalous to religion in the community where they reside . |
| 2 | They add little to the cultural identity of Darlington and are guilty of attracting some unsavoury characters and behaviour to the centre of the town . |
| 3 | Indeed , there were only nine men aged under 30 and these included a group of four aircraftsmen appearing on a court martial accused of assaulting some young cadets at a summer camp . |
| 4 | When I was a little older I enjoyed going there because I was sure of meeting some of the boys I liked , but on these matters Don Cattabianchi was very strict . |
| 5 | With the bridge pickup in expander mode the RD is more than capable of producing some very aurally uncomfortable noises . |
| 6 | I think these kind of comments are most unfair , as Andrew has a very exciting fast court game , and he is still more than capable of producing some good results . |
| 7 | At the risk of being accused of being a pedlar of yet another quack remedy I wish to argue that a rights-based theory , derived in part from the influential rights thesis recently put forward by Ronald Dworkin ( Dworkin , 1978 ) , is also capable of addressing some of these difficulties confronted by our orthodox political and constitutional theories , in addition to its more immediate relevance with regard to the specific issue of tax diversion ( Dignan , 1983 ) , and other civil libertarian issues ; though to do so it stands in need of some revision . |
| 8 | The Spirit who inspired their writing is perfectly well capable of taking some part of them and writing it on our hearts so that it becomes an inescapable pointer to a particular course of action . |
| 9 | So she 's more to do with bobbysox blues than sex'n'drugs'n'booze , but there 's no hiding from the fact that Magnapop as a whole are capable of creating some genuinely horrible noises . |
| 10 | I had not been to such a party since before Leslie went to North Africa , and talking to Ika and his friends on a balcony canopied by a starry sky , I felt a spurt of pleasure , quickly followed by a surge of guilt : Leslie was dead , and I was alive , and capable of enjoying some temporary diversion . |
| 11 | While the evidence he cites shows that Y-cells may be capable of sustaining some form of pattern vision it does not show that they are responsible for it in the normal brain . |
| 12 | Religion has been , and is , capable of sustaining some of the finest civilizations the world has seen , and it has attracted many of the most brilliant and high-minded people who have ever lived . |
| 13 | And certain mechanisms capable of performing some non-trivial computations are incapable of performing others which at first sight might appear to be within their range . |
| 14 | For calculational purposes the Feynman approach is an unwieldy steam-hammer only capable of cracking some particularly brittle nuts . |
| 15 | WIRRAL fishermen rate the promenade between Seacombe Ferry and Egremont as capable of giving some of the best fishing in the North West . |
| 16 | He was even capable of finding some credit in it for himself : for after all , it proved that he did not have to take every apparently unprotected woman who came into his sights . |
| 17 | He soon became aware that his theory was not capable of explaining some of the most exciting new developments in science . |
| 18 | Harbour developments by local trusts , training , assistance to tourism — all have already been mentioned by others hopeful of appropriating some Eurocash . |
| 19 | Nothing in it suggests even that he is aware of pursuing some covert stratagem in the battle . |