Example sentences of "[is] [v-ing] [verb] some [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've had a practice match this morning , and every striker in the club is going to do some finishing this afternoon . |
| 2 | Now , of course , we got problems now where they 've all been abolished and is virtually on a voluntary basis , and I say , it 'll be rather interesting to see whether Lamont actually is going to release some more money , cos you probably realise at the moment they 're cutting back on that particular budget . |
| 3 | However , if England do progress beyond the opening round — and with the first two from each group plus the four best third-placed teams going through , it is going to take some wretched performances to fail — they will then travel to Bologna , Genoa or Turin for the second phase , with the prospect of visits to Naples , Rome or Florence in the quarter-finals . |
| 4 | However , if England do progress beyond the opening round — and with the first two from each group plus the four best third-placed teams going through , it is going to take some wretched performances to fail — they will then travel to Bologna , Genoa or Turin for the second phase , with the prospect of visits to Naples , Rome or Florence in the quarter-finals . |
| 5 | But this log-jam is going to take some more than human effort , however sincere and weighty , to break through . |
| 6 | Short-changed on the sale , the taxpayer is going to get some bland programming too . |
| 7 | Firstly the process of moving down towards our S S A needs to be facilitated because my own instinct is that the government , faced with all sorts of financial tribulations , is going to take a harder and harder nosed attitude towards local government expenditure , as it will unfortunately with an awful lot of the rest of what we have come to expect over the decades to be the responsibility of central government , clearly the current expenditure review is going to have some nasty shocks in it for consumers of account services , consumers of other assets of the welfare state but particularly I would suspect , the local government . |
| 8 | With any drug breaking down emotional barriers , there is always a risk that it is going to unlock some psychological problem . ’ |
| 9 | A lot will depend on your current theatre experience and whether you have done much acting , but finding the right kind of character to work in an audition is going to mean some careful thinking and planning . |
| 10 | Somebody puts another resistor , another , not a resistor , conductor cos it 's going to let some more get through , no matter how much resistance it 'll still let some get through . |
| 11 | Somebody 's going to get some shitty Christmas presents then |
| 12 | It does seem to me when you start losing money of that sort it 's going to have some major impact on the industry . |
| 13 | But erm certainly erm I , I think that was erm a , a very good response to this because erm obviously we 've got er a g a fair selection here , you 've got erm building society instant and top ten postal , that 's the postal account there , erm TESSA , P E P and unit trusts , and possibly index-linked certificates , and I 'll go back to those but I mean certainly that was a good er a good spread , and I think er you know you should be er thinking , well you know this lady 's going to have some safe growth in the in the future . |
| 14 | To be fair , there is a significant Construction Training Programme in association with Canary Wharf which is beginning to make some local impact . |
| 15 | The work of Bakhtin has been ‘ taken up ’ in television writing — most problematically in some appropriations of the theory of carnival developed in Rabelais and His World — and the critical vocabulary of the ‘ chronotope ’ and ‘ the dialogic ’ which is developed in his extensive work on literature , culture and language is beginning to achieve some deserved currency . |
| 16 | The quite excellent British Museum Press , which is managing to produce some twenty scholarly titles this season , from books to accompany exhibitions to detailed descriptions of archaeological digs , has profited from the private entertainment of its former director , Sir David Wilson , to produce a delightful book of funerary inscriptions gathered by him from all over the British Isles and America . |
| 17 | They also need furniture , bedding , towels and clothing , separated for men , women , children and babies and labelled as top clothes , undergarments , jumpers etc. and , as he is trying to organise some basic schooling for the many children , he needs paper , pens and pencils . ’ |
| 18 | She 's doing it on purpose , of course — I know she 's planning to do some more of her wretched putting practice . |