Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [v-ing] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Maybe scum gangs were uniting for some big upward raid , eh ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Deep down in Aspen , Colorado , Sun Laboratories Inc 's engineers are working on some object-oriented language and compiler technology called Self . |
| 5 | Our grandchildren were playing with some large pinecones which got chattered around the garden . |
| 6 | Beneath it , two geese were pecking at some grain . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | With the coming of steam power and mechanisation by the 1840s , machines were working in some mills and life was very different . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The upshot is that holiday/tour organisers who book hotels in this country are imposing stringent contract conditions on the hotels and may in some cases be looking for some performance guarantees or such-like so that they have some redress if your shortcomings result in them having to pay up to their customers . |
| 13 | Switching the focus to track and field competition , more details are emerging about some of this season 's important fixtures . |
| 14 | In addition , declaration forms were missing in some cases in the departmental libraries , or older forms had been torn off and replaced by new forms when full rather than being retained , thus losing the evidential value of the forms . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've denounced facts which are there for all to see in the RAI accounts , and the public prosecutors are looking into some of them . |
| 16 | Police are working on some leads , but the motive for the attack is still unknown . |
| 17 | In 1981–82 , courses were running in some twenty centres catering for about 800 trainees ; they attended for about 80 hours , usually on day release , and their programme consisted of training in fundamental skills in four main areas : what are called Instructional Skills ; Counselling and Caring ; Evaluation ; and Core Competencies . |
| 18 | It was not that both sides were preparing for some future war to deter the other side . |
| 19 | ‘ We know that hospital caterers are struggling with some severe economic constraints , ’ says Roden . |
| 20 | About two hundred warriors were squatting under some of these trees and more were hurrying to join them . |
| 21 | But superimposed on this background were brief ‘ bursts ’ of high-frequency activity , in which whole ensembles of cells were firing in some sort of rhythmic synchrony ( Figure 10.10 ) . |