Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [v-ing] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | The musical flavour will be supplied by Edinburgh 's own Tam White and the Caledonian Brewery are laying on some of their amber liquid and pies to give you just a taste of what the atmosphere will be like during the weekend 13–15 August . |
| 2 | In contemporary England written language takes precedence , for instance , in a legal context — a written contract being more binding than a spoken agreement — while in Scotland verbal contracts are binding in some cases . |
| 3 | Maybe scum gangs were uniting for some big upward raid , eh ? |
| 4 | One gets the impression that Picasso is striving for some ultimate pictorial truth , some absolute representation of reality . |
| 5 | The anti-dog programme is meeting with some encouraging success , using poisoned bait which is hidden under dark ledges . |
| 6 | The problems are most acute in Africa where population pressures are also greatest , though modification of South American savannas is increasing ; desertification is occurring in some areas as a result of overgrazing . |
| 7 | While your subconscious mind is searching for some final point to include in the margins , go on to the final stage . |
| 8 | Benjamin Jowett ( 181793 ) , Master of Balliol College , Oxford , and one of the modernizing dons who supported endeavours to extend university education and to attract men from new social classes to Oxford , considered that " classical study is getting in some respects worn out , and the plan proposed [ the introduction of English Language and Literature at Oxford ] would breathe new life into it . |
| 9 | The decline of community and the rise of a society in which association was becoming in some sense secondary can also be seen as reflecting some of the profound social and spatial changes that were actually taking place in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries . |
| 10 | However , there were unconfirmed reports in July and August that the PLO was coming under some pressure from moderate Arab states to accept the exclusion of East Jerusalem residents . |
| 11 | I looked up and the light was shining through some leaves across his face . |
| 12 | Bernie and Mick are working on some new songs for a second album . |
| 13 | It makes it easier , in principle , to ‘ see ’ how many hypotheses are competing for some portion of an utterance , for example , and to decide which are the most promising given the evidence . |
| 14 | Deep down in Aspen , Colorado , Sun Laboratories Inc 's engineers are working on some object-oriented language and compiler technology called Self . |
| 15 | Our grandchildren were playing with some large pinecones which got chattered around the garden . |
| 16 | I mean if obviously the child is reacting in some way or feels that they ca n't even relax when they 're at home , erm then someone 's overstepped the mark . |
| 17 | Answer guide : This question is looking for some discussion around the realization and prudence principles . |
| 18 | In one of those asides , Johnson with the eye of a painter gives the last glimpse of these high ways in 1773 : ‘ Once we saw a corn field , in which a lady was walking with some gentlemen … ’ |
| 19 | I would have concluded Herr Bremann was suffering from some serious illness , but for certain remarks his lordship made at that time assuring me this was not so . |
| 20 | There was one large stone farmhouse , outside which a small dark-haired girl was playing with some kittens by an empty farm-cart . |
| 21 | The woman Assassin was running through some muscle exercises , using her enhanced body sense to tense and untense . |
| 22 | Beneath it , two geese were pecking at some grain . |
| 23 | Though he 'd never used it , the Bowl was reputedly the most accurate prophetic tool known in the worlds , and now — sitting amid his treasures , with a sense growing in him that events on Earth in the last few days were leading to some matter of moment — he brought the Bowl down from its place on the highest shelf , unwrapped it , and set it on the table . |
| 24 | It does appear that ITV is indulging in some manipulation of the finale , instead of reflecting it as they should . |
| 25 | Lord Spinoza claimed that his Calculator Maximus was indulging in some financial irregularities . |
| 26 | Particularly because it was only now , when he was so close to her , that every cell of her body was reacting in some primordial , incomprehensible way to his nearness , to the sheer magnetic pull of his very commanding presence , that she had become aware of the fantasy that had consumed her . |
| 27 | As a director of public health , and having been chief officer to a health authority for some 17 years and having experienced more reorganisations than I care to remember , I can see the career turbulence that the current reforms are producing for some senior doctors in public health medicine . |
| 28 | Software suppliers are going to some lengths to make their Windows product sets work in a uniform way , with the same icons , toolbars and so forth . |
| 29 | With the coming of steam power and mechanisation by the 1840s , machines were working in some mills and life was very different . |
| 30 | But the miners ' strike did not only reveal that èlite groups of police officers were operating to some extent under national co-ordination and control . |