Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [prep] some [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | We are helping with some specific problems that will occur in the run-down , such as the expansion of the former military hospital at Dharan . |
| 3 | ‘ We know that hospital caterers are struggling with some severe economic constraints , ’ says Roden . |
| 4 | Occasionally a light showed silver , faint in one of the streets below , and but for that , and for the sounds as their feet struck the timbers of a bridge , they might have been walking in some open courtyard instead of in narrow alleys raised between the walls of tall buildings . |
| 5 | I 'm influenced by street , jazz , and I 've also been looking at some African dancing ’ |
| 6 | The medieval period sometimes attracts people who are looking for some general structure for the undergraduate curriculum which goes beyond a mere aggregation of subjects ( see , for example , MacCabe 's 1982 , proposals for a ‘ modern trivium ’ ) . |
| 7 | WE are looking for some one-cap wonders of soccer this week with a query that wins £25 for Mr F. Stillwell of Basingstoke . |
| 8 | The wood at the back of the painting was deeply scored with a dagger as if someone had been searching for some secret crevice or compartment . |
| 9 | By 1907 , the year that preceded the painting of the Baigneuse , Fauvism had already lost much of its original impetus , and Braque , like the other Fauves , had for some time been searching for some more solid basis for his art . |
| 10 | We 're asking for er communication back with the ship and we 're asking for some straightforward answers from them . |
| 11 | and er , I said what you mean Charlie , cor all dog 's mess all over the place , I said it is n't , I , I said have you ever been and he said no I , I said well there you are , I said if you have n't been I said you do n't know what it 's like , I said you 're talking about some old girl that lives on , in Little Sandhurst , who 's got a thing about dogs and I said kicking up a lot of fuss about it , but I said the women 's a dam liar |
| 12 | Deep inside she seemed to have been waiting like some long-ago damsel in distress , waiting for her knight to rescue her . |
| 13 | We really are waiting for some key data on how and so on which we sha n't know until March so I think that is going to condition our er next consideration but your comment on that . |
| 14 | He had been speaking for some five minutes or more with force and conviction , carried away by the things which concerned him greatly . |
| 15 | Personality disorders are conditions where the individual 's whole personality appears to be permanently warped rather than that they are suffering from some actual illness at any given time . |
| 16 | He saw Olga Stych go off to church an hour early and deduced that she must be helping with some small church chore before the service . |
| 17 | His normally responsive facial expression was firmly controlled ; an Oxford contemporary remembered that for all its serenity an observer seemed ‘ to be gazing upon some great portrait of a face rather than upon a face ’ . |
| 18 | Melford , now he had tasted blood , seemed to be revelling in some private joke . |
| 19 | She did not look as if she might be dying of some dreadful disease . |
| 20 | And we 'll be looking for some general indication as to a location in a particular transport corridor . |
| 21 | Fred and Sophy , though they were only two and three years younger , and though they had seen mamma in her coffin , seemed to themselves to be looking at some strange show . |
| 22 | Meanwhile , the Reston , Virginia-based Visix , which reckons it missed the contract IBM awarded to Neuron Data Inc last week by a whisker , is thought to be looking at some alternative ways of marketing Galaxy , including using the Internet as a vehicle . |
| 23 | I heard myself speaking calmly in a low tone , telling her how I would be looking into some other business now that this office was closing . |
| 24 | Such gigantic creatures could hardly be living in some remote spot unknown to European science , so they had either changed into something else or had become extinct . |
| 25 | He appeared to be searching for some key document . |
| 26 | No one suggests he should be left to the mercy of mad killers , but if he 's really on the run he should be sheltering in some safe house , not bopping around town . |
| 27 | Having sweated to produce a loudspeaker capable of reproducing the full frequency range , the experimenters refused even to consider the possibility that the test subjects might be rebelling against some new form of distortion instead of appreciating the improvement . |
| 28 | C-FDFC , C-FTBA and C-FYQS are expected to be flying for some considerable time , as the Freighter 's life is measured in landings , and each of the trio have about 6,000 landings remaining , ensuring their continued employment . |
| 29 | Like Dean Acheson 's ‘ Present at the Creation ’ , which describes the cold war 's start , this book will remind readers whose memories may already be fading of some essential truths about America and world politics in the 20th century . |
| 30 | Certainly we can not provide a fully one hundred percent sustainable community , you 'd be talking about some vast city to move towards that , erm the re the real world is that the the hierarchy of settlements , erm all settlements , have greater or lesser degree of facilities depending on their size , and there 'll be no difference er to the new settlement , and I think to run an argument on the basis of Mr Curtis er has run it is unfair to the concept of the new settlement . |