Example sentences of "[pron] are [verb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will my right hon. Friend send a message today to the leaders of the National Association of Local Government Officers who are spending some £2 million on a shoddy and inaccurate advertising campaign , telling them that their policies of abandoning competitive tendering , abolishing the Audit Commission and introducing a minimum wage would be acceptable only to a party which has already sold its soul to the trade union bosses ? |
| 2 | Well for most people erm I mean they say to me , I do n't want to be the richest man at Millford Hill , in other words I do n't want to save in retirement indefinitely , but you are intending some capital growth as well , cos if you do n't have capital growth , you do n't protect your investment . |
| 3 | If you are a solicitor or an overseas lawyer wanting to be admitted to the English Bar ; if you are seeking some reduction of the normal pupillage requirements or certain other exemptions from the regulations ; if you are applying to become an employed pupil-master — you must apply to the Joint Regulations Committee ( JRC ) . |
| 4 | If you are taking some sort of action shots for instance , the camera will set fast shutter speeds ( to freeze the action ) and use wide apertures if the light level is indifferent . |
| 5 | Because you are using some hospital staff , remember . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ If you are staying some while , sir , you must tell it me privately , ’ Mary said , ‘ since I am setting up shop as a connoisseur of grave stories . ’ |
| 7 | Nothing can be more exciting than the first time that you are given some flowers , and particularly red roses . |
| 8 | If you are moving some distance , it 's worth having the car serviced before you embark on the journey . |
| 9 | Everyone will either sympathize with your terrible squint or think that you are offering some form of invitation . |
| 10 | For it received the neglect that a great deal of insider research achieves and was channelled ( unopened ) to me , accompanied by a two-line memo from a senior officer which suggested , ‘ I understand you are doing some research ; you may find this useful ’ . |
| 11 | If you are travelling some distance , and it is a hot day , you may find picnic cool blocks a further help . |
| 12 | You are having some sort of mental breakdown . |
| 13 | Suppose we are given some outline drawings of axes . |
| 14 | Virtually all of the respite care that is provided , is provided in your own homes , we are getting some increase in using independent homes for respite care . |
| 15 | You see , we are getting some luck . |
| 16 | ‘ Euro Disney has been very successful for us and now we are getting some interest from other potential clients on the Continent , ’ says Peter Fane , one of the four brothers who own Waterers . |
| 17 | We appreciate the County put on an interesting programme of events , but since we are situated some distance from County Headquarters and public transport is virtually non-existent , we are unable to participate in very much . |
| 18 | We are conducting some research to establish the full range of reasons why that is so . |
| 19 | Erm we are renumbering some points in that one , erm we were trying to avoid it before but I ca n't seem any way of avoiding it here because these are major new things . |
| 20 | Thus throughout a reading of the passage , we are learning some things , and surmising others . |
| 21 | Here we are to have some fun . |
| 22 | Obviously we are losing some players to retirement , and other who are planning to play elsewhere , and we are going to have to bring in new people . |
| 23 | Unfortunately at long last we are making some progress along that line . |
| 24 | Now , the reason why we 're getting a fairly high test statistic is that er , that distribution , although it looks normal on the left hand side , it does n't look particularly normal erm on the right and that we are missing some observations , we are missing some values of the residuals er in one area of the graph , nevertheless if we had a larger sample , right we probably erm , right it does n't look , that looks quite encouraging in actual fact , those residuals do seem to be er normally distributed er what the test statistic is doing er it 's saying it 's performing a , it 's a kiescraper two test , it 's making two restrictions , one of which is saying , is the distribution of these residuals symmetric er and also it 's testing whether there 's one of the tails is a lot larger or a lot longer than the other tail of the distribution and er test statistics fairly high but we would n't reject the null of normality at the five percent level so our test statistic is four point zero eight and the critical value is five point nine nine and that the five percent significance level , so we 've got reasonably er robust residuals . |
| 25 | Now , the reason why we 're getting a fairly high test statistic is that er , that distribution , although it looks normal on the left hand side , it does n't look particularly normal erm on the right and that we are missing some observations , we are missing some values of the residuals er in one area of the graph , nevertheless if we had a larger sample , right we probably erm , right it does n't look , that looks quite encouraging in actual fact , those residuals do seem to be er normally distributed er what the test statistic is doing er it 's saying it 's performing a , it 's a kiescraper two test , it 's making two restrictions , one of which is saying , is the distribution of these residuals symmetric er and also it 's testing whether there 's one of the tails is a lot larger or a lot longer than the other tail of the distribution and er test statistics fairly high but we would n't reject the null of normality at the five percent level so our test statistic is four point zero eight and the critical value is five point nine nine and that the five percent significance level , so we 've got reasonably er robust residuals . |
| 26 | It is extremely difficult to describe in words such a highly complex method , but we are giving some ideas we have gained during our two-and-a-half weeks . |
| 27 | If in Holy Scripture there are found some injunctions forbidding the infliction of some cruelty towards brute animals … this is either for removing a man 's mind from exercising cruelty towards other men … or because the injury inflicted on animals turns to a temporal loss for some man … |
| 28 | Parents who are very concerned about weight loss are often tempted to give the pudding even if the child has not finished the main course because they are getting some calories into the child . |
| 29 | And anyway there were no witnesses , though they are bringing some forward who will pretend to be . ’ |
| 30 | Good stakes can last a long time , but it does help if they are cut some months before they are used , and well seasoned . |