Example sentences of "the [noun] be [v-ing] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shuriken skaters of Sagramoso City were swift — if inclined to capricious flourishes and virtuoso displays , as though recognizing that the Scouts were providing some destructive harassment , but ultimately posed no major danger . |
| 2 | In this case the programmer is forgoing some of the precision of single-length fixed-point arithmetic in exchange for an increased range of values . |
| 3 | erm What , what we 're hoping is that erm the university 's undertaking some research to actually look at the links between very small geographic areas , postcode in fact , and ill health . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , Paul Nicholas is still posing for pictures , the musicians are doing some last minute rehearsals and the sombre looking safety men continue to look grim . |
| 5 | Evidently the employers were expecting some hostility , as the reminiscences of one elderly compositor suggest : " back in the 70s … |
| 6 | Many English stick dances , like those elsewhere , are believed to be ancient rituals in which the performers are enacting some job necessary for the well-being of the community . |
| 7 | ‘ You 're implying that the KGB is running some big operation in Romania . |
| 8 | Looking back , I fancy that when I went skiing I always hoped that the snow was covering some kindly grass , certainly not something as hard and painful as the arres of Pierre-Saint-Martin . |
| 9 | ‘ Getting away with it ’ , of course , means something only if the bats are adopting some kind of Tit for Tat strategy . |
| 10 | One of the intruders was straggling some half mile behind the rest , so this was attacked by the newly-promoted Flt.Lt . |
| 11 | Unfortunately , John does suffer from a hearing defect which er causes him loss of hearing and apparently when he puts his hearing aid in the speakers are causing some interference and a whistle within his ear . |
| 12 | It has been suggested that the appropriate test is ‘ whether the parties are making some serious promises or undertakings ’ which are intended by them to be acted and relied upon . |
| 13 | When this behaviour is seen for the first time , the owners may become seriously concerned , imagining that the cat is having some kind of fit or seizure . |
| 14 | That 's why er many authors insist on that aspect of child sex abuse , that erm apparent consent or even y'know when it seems that the child is expressing some curiosity about that these activities , nevertheless it 's abusive . |
| 15 | Watch your fish carefully at feeding times to ensure that they are all behaving well and that all the fish are obtaining some food . |
| 16 | I 've actually seen erm er been in a workshop as a participant where a chap who was excellent at this had what he did was while while the participants were doing some sort of an exercise he was actually making these tiny notes up in the top corner for himself so that when he when he came to the next sort of section that he wanted he 'd he 'd got he 'd got the odd notes just up there in the corner . |
| 17 | Peace of mind when the husband was working some distance from the farm could be of great importance . |
| 18 | There is no power of arrest under the section , so that arrest is available only where the general arrest conditions of PACE are satisfied , or the disrupters are committing some other arrestable offence . |
| 19 | It is clear that the stories are meeting some real , deep , need but one rarely has clues as to what that need may be or as to what is happening in the reader . |
| 20 | The landlord was polishing some mugs whilst gazing resignedly around the empty parlour . |
| 21 | In these examples the adult is doing some simple cognitive monitoring for the child . |
| 22 | The fluke is exerting some hidden chemical influence on the snail that forces the snail to shift away from its own ‘ preferred ’ thickness of shell . |
| 23 | Either the commission intuitively knows how supply and demand will change — in which case the commission is miraculous but unnecessary — or else the commission is applying some other unspecified standards and judgements of its own — in which case the commission will be a tyrant if it can impose its decisions and a laughing stock if it can not . |
| 24 | Display manager John Birch said the complaint could have arisen because the store was using some male dummies for the first time in several years . |
| 25 | The EC is blocking pork and beef imports because it claims that American slaughterhouses are unsanitary ; the Americans are blocking some wine imports because they have not tested a drug used in its production . |
| 26 | er we learnt from America that er a lot of birds that have been caught by cats , die , and everybody 's always assumed it 's shock but the Americans were doing some tests and they found it 's septicaemia from the cat 's teeth . |
| 27 | The tender is undergoing some further work and the boiler is the final obstacle in this protracted restoration . |
| 28 | Looking at the act of speaking in a broader way , we can see that intonation can signal to the listener what is to be taken as ‘ new ’ information and what is already ‘ given ’ , can suggest when the speaker is indicating some sort of contrast or link with material in another tone-unit and , in conversation , can convey to the listener what kind of response is expected . |
| 29 | None had been seen at that time in the Harwell experiments that preceded ZETA but Kurchatov announced that the Soviets were seeing some neutrons which were due to fusion occurring , but were unlikely to be from thermonuclear fusion because the rate of their production did not vary with current in the expected way . |
| 30 | The conception does not have to do , above all , with the statement 's having some otherwise specified content or subject-matter : that is , say , as being about thoughts , wants , or intentions , or conveying something about persons , minds , subjectivity , experience , or an inner world . |