Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | The anti-dog programme is meeting with some encouraging success , using poisoned bait which is hidden under dark ledges . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | While your subconscious mind is searching for some final point to include in the margins , go on to the final stage . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I looked up and the light was shining through some leaves across his face . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Answer guide : This question is looking for some discussion around the realization and prudence principles . |
| 10 | 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 … ’ |
| 11 | There was one large stone farmhouse , outside which a small dark-haired girl was playing with some kittens by an empty farm-cart . |
| 12 | The woman Assassin was running through some muscle exercises , using her enhanced body sense to tense and untense . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Accountants inevitably greeted the court 's finding with some disquiet . |
| 15 | TRANMERE manager John King is looking for some special deliveries against Southend tonight . |
| 16 | Fragments of paper were missing from some of the pages and quite a few names were faded , some almost beyond recognition . |
| 17 | As a result over-capacity was running at some 10 million tonnes a year and coal stocks ( including the 10 million tonne national coal reserve to safeguard West German energy supply ) were reaching levels of well over 30 million tonnes . |
| 18 | Lucy could n't find time to come over for an evening ; the globally significant exhibition was floating on some remote iceberg ; Jeremy had an agent , an opening ; Lucy 's sister was ill and needed her ( Jay recalled Lucy 's exasperated indifference to her sister ) ; the painters were coming . |
| 19 | The old man is walking with some woman and one of those red dogs from the cigarette commercials . |
| 20 | There are the problems in Yugoslavia and in the Soviet Union , where a federation is moving towards some kind of commonwealth of independent states . |
| 21 | At the Confederation of British Industry , we have already done a large amount of research into the sources of international competitiveness , and we now welcome the interest that the Government is showing in some of our conclusions . |
| 22 | Lamond was talking to some people and then as he was leaving he came by me and said , ‘ But , you know , it was n't all as beautiful as you might imagine ! ’ |
| 23 | Until he got Jackson 's note he had been convinced that the man was suffering from some sort of regular illness . |
| 24 | Governments around the western world are looking to some of these technical ideas to provide a form of long-term insurance against problems with metals supplies . |
| 25 | If the model is travelling at some speed and/or a sharp turn is made , it will in fact gain height despite the fact that no back cyclic is applied . |
| 26 | If the model is travelling at some speed , things become much more complicated . |
| 27 | Indonesia 's ambition to become the top paper-producing nation is leading to some of the earth 's finest forests being felled , according to a report from an international environmental group , Down to Earth . |
| 28 | Erm and the difficulty is proving to some of the L E As that you 're actually self-employed . |
| 29 | The country is sitting on some of the world 's most valuable supplies of these metals . |
| 30 | The first thing was to find a school for you three — for six months you had had no teaching , except what I could give you , and then kind Miss Budden , the headmistress at Auckland House school , Simla , said she could take you if I could come too and help her nurse about twenty children down with measles in the san. , because Matron was coping with some children with suspected diphtheria in another block . |