Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] some [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It is not surprising to find the Russian government in 1784 asking officially for information on the organisation of the ministry ; and the memorandum drawn up in response to this request by one of the premiers commis paints , even allowing for some gilding of the lily , an impressive picture of the efficiency with which , at least in theory , correspondence was classified , answered and indexed . |
| 3 | Based on an earlier estimate of £70,000 for computerised support of approximately 20,000 files in another department ( without networking costs ) , a similar system for the Highways and Planning departments , allowing for some economy of scale , could have cost in excess of £150,000 at the prices that were then current . |
| 4 | Can the Minister tell us whether Britain 's shipyards will be assured of a very early decision on a type 42 replacement , thus allowing for some continuity of work and ending the grave uncertainty in the shipyards so that men and management can get on with what they do best — building ships in British yards ? |
| 5 | Even allowing for some massaging of programmes into ‘ serious ’ categories , ITV 's progressive seriousness saw a halving of its ‘ entertainment ’ schedules . |
| 6 | But unions are for representing people properly , responsibly , not for using as some vehicle for your own political obsessions . |
| 7 | She was in pain , but she was taking it out on a complicated Fair Isle jumper that she was knitting for some nephew in Canada . |
| 8 | Anne felt helpless , only able to wipe her mother 's face and grip her hands , praying for some relief for her . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't know what he meant , ’ Allen said after they had been walking for some time on the soft turf at the verge of the track . |
| 10 | After walking for some time through the wood Valdemar put his finger to his lips and motioned us to be quiet . |
| 11 | There were moments when the sun almost burst through the mist and I kept on driving , waiting and hoping for a first glimpse of the cordillera , my mind groping for some answer to the enigma of Iris Sunderby 's behaviour . |
| 12 | His mind drifted over the people whom he had heard about for the first time that morning , groping for some sort of perspective . |
| 13 | Hypertext is becoming of some significance as an underlying structure in multimedia design and it is important , therefore , that we describe it , if only briefly , before we conclude our survey of the technological environment from which multimedia is emerging . |
| 14 | Rather than measure degrees of public ( mis ) understanding against some yardstick of ‘ real ’ scientific knowledge , it recognises that science and technology have and implicate a variety of publics , who , in using science at work , in managing their personal lives , or as consumers , will have different kinds of contacts with science , different levels of understanding of its language and ideas , and different conceptions of science and technology which will be related to other aspects of their lives . |
| 15 | Contempt , coursing like some seam of metal through his words and their meaning , the contempt felt by one who knew his own powers for one who clearly did not . |
| 16 | It worries me that turning a blind eye to the deliberate starvation of these patients is portrayed as contributing in some way to the high ethical standards of the nursing profession . ’ |
| 17 | So how do students feel when the likes of Gary Lineker , Bryan Robson , Nigel Kennedy and Lenny Henry are handed honorary degrees by their universities while they 're swotting in some squat with all the comfort and respect afforded to a New Age Traveller ? |
| 18 | When Dexter focused back on the conversation , Blanche was laughing at some joke of Eddy Russell 's that the sergeant had missed . |
| 19 | The syntactic component could look at all the word-pairs for each tag ending at some vertex in the graph and discard all but the highest scoring , based on the acoustic scores and the pair-wise probabilities , since , given this parsing method , no later information is relevant to the decision . |
| 20 | The AEEU Scottish organiser , Harry McLevy , said he thought both sides had been inching towards some sort of agreement . |
| 21 | Just to er the Leeds point , er it is actually a stated aim of the Leeds development plan to make adequate provision for the communities housing needs during the plan period , by identification of sufficient land for new dwellings , targeting of some provision for social housing , need groups and support for renewal of the existing stock . |
| 22 | I flinch , and Rachel starts up from the floor as I begin stumbling through some kind of introduction . |
| 23 | Unlike the families of middleclass dropouts , skinhead families were generally supportive , helping with money and acting as some sort of barrier against school and the police . |
| 24 | Instead of acting as some source of " alternative expertise " , projects have been run by union committees and have involved releasing both workers representatives and specialists to produce specifications for new technology and associated systems . |
| 25 | I was looking for some short-cut to getting a complete description of who you are . |
| 26 | They 're looking for some purpose for it all and they ca n't find it . ’ |
| 27 | In looking for some test of their hypothesis , scientists have tried two approaches . |
| 28 | There were racetrack express buses , I found , going from the city to the Downs , so I went on one at about six o'clock and strolled around at ground level looking for some way of conveying to Bill Baudelaire the water samples which were now individually wrapped inside the nondescript plastic carrier . |
| 29 | ‘ If you 're looking for some kind of … counselling , ’ says Riva , ‘ I 'll ask my father if he knows of anyone who … ’ |
| 30 | I tore along the beach like a maniac , looking for some kind of boat I could borrow to get away . |