Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [v-ing] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless their energy and inventiveness were getting some development experts excited . |
| 2 | King 's College is facing some difficulty today and the Whittington had problems yesterday . |
| 3 | The motorbike industry is facing some hot competition — from the Chinese . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Within a year Labour was recapturing some of the political ground which it had lost at the local elections in November 1931 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This proposal is meeting some resistance at the UN 's headquarters in New York . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | This is a marvellous example of how the new sociological dimension was giving some films a new prestige and a new relevance and thereby gaining Hollywood new friends . |
| 17 | On my way back from Ents Committee last week , erm the internal mail bloke was delivering some gear to computer services , and he left the back of the post van open . |
| 18 | When we 're away though next week , I think they 'll do quite a lot of stuff inside and But they 're doing some for The same team are doing some friends of ours on Main Road and of course most of the people are down there . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Paper Tiger is spending some £10,000 on a promotion for its graphic and fantasy art list in April . |
| 21 | So not surprisingly CBF head Wendy Cooling is introducing some changes to the procedure . |
| 22 | It was like a virtually an all night blitz job and so bits of it , you know , it was n't like , totally completed , you know , you 've got and as Scouse was doing some of it it was er the paintwork leaves something to be desired in areas . |
| 23 | A teacher was doing some mental arithmetic , including estimation , with a group of 15 year olds . |
| 24 | The Cabinet already suspected that U Saw was planning some act of retaliation ( he resigned on returning from London and did not attempt to contest the election ) . |
| 25 | There capitalism was making some progress . |
| 26 | However this body was experiencing some role ambiguity and since it possessed no formal power to ensure that its professional judgement was heeded , it tended to define its function as advisory rather than inspectorial . |
| 27 | ‘ We were all set to come to Czechoslovakia for her to see you and for us then to take a holiday while her husband was doing some work in America . |
| 28 | Peace of mind when the husband was working some distance from the farm could be of great importance . |
| 29 | Attempts to reduce the balancing outflow of bullion were having some effect by the 1760s and 1770s , however . |
| 30 | I feel that somewhere over my head is hanging some kind of spirituality . |