Example sentences of "to be [verb] some [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Criminals are n't too bothered about the er problems they cause victims in the commission for their crime , but er as a general rule er they do draw a line somewhere , but I think to er rob a lady who is er presumably grieving over the loss of a relative , at the graveside , has got to be plumbing some new depth of er depravity and er I 'll expect the erm vast majority of the citizens of Banbury will think similarly . |
| 2 | Ah , but you 're going to be getting some extra police officers by taking them off er , paperwork , er you 're gon na get two thousand three hundred I see in the press , well that as shown , that of course will be twenty three , but if anybody here thinks the Chief Constable 's gon na produce twenty three new police officers through reductions in paperwork and through the other initiatives the Home Secretary has announced , well I do n't believe them , and we shall have to wait and see . |
| 3 | ‘ I must say , ’ said Elinor , sipping a gin and tonic , ‘ you seem to be getting some good vibes . |
| 4 | A forty one , that 's the road between Banbury and Bicester , there are temporary traffic lights for resurfacing work , that 's just between the Soldern turn-off by the Bear public house and the Northants border , that 's going to be causing some long delays . |
| 5 | I do n't even know you , so I 'm hardly likely to be harbouring some secret grudge against you ! ’ |
| 6 | Lady Roscarrock seemed to be containing some inner pressure that was about to erupt . |
| 7 | The Great Spirit … seemed to be looking some other way , and did not see what was being done to my people . |
| 8 | Rod Wallace appears to be producing some good performances although he 's not putting all his chances away — those misses in the first half on Saturday would probably be crucial against a good side . |
| 9 | In fact , the legal force of any particular rule depends partly on the source of its authority ( essentially , whether it is supported by statute or not ) ; partly on the way it is drafted ( rules which are drafted in precise technical language are more likely to be given some legal force than are rules drafted loosely and non-technically ) ; and partly on its contents . |
| 10 | However , if the unit is to be sited some considerable distance from the water supply , it may need to be thicker to prevent excessive voltage drop — loudspeaker wire , for example . |
| 11 | For the foreman to be dreened some more . |
| 12 | The main time may well be from harvest through to April the following year , but netting is in fact selective because the size of the mesh allows small rabbits to escape — to be netted some other time when they have grown bigger . |
| 13 | For Pound undoubtedly made the poem more obscure by asking for the excision of some transitional and bridging passages where the language was not at full pressure , but on the other hand he caused to be removed some extended sections which , being plainly extraneous , could only have added to readers ' bafflement . |
| 14 | Speaker A appears to be offering some new elements as part of the conversational topic , again deriving from some personal reference ( as in my father ) which speaker B appears to accept . |
| 15 | They know the truth : that life with an aged parent can be a strange mixture of joy and sorrow , and all they ask is for that fact to be accepted , not glossed over by their family and society , and then to be offered some practical ideas on how to make the best of a good job , which they consider to be well worth doing . |
| 16 | When are we going to be told some good news for a change ? ’ |
| 17 | Hence the current emphasis on sustainable development ( meeting our needs without making it impossible for future generations to meet their needs ) , which is what the Earth Summit is meant to be giving some practical expression to . |
| 18 | An official report by the National Human Rights Commission accused Morán of ignoring repeated requests from the local federal police to stop his soldiers firing at the agents who were trying to intercept an aircraft later discovered to be carrying some 360 kg of cocaine from Colombia to Mexico . |
| 19 | Each man seeming to be weighing some hidden sword . |
| 20 | And while we 're at the police station I suggest that you have a word with someone there about the fact that you seem to be attracting some unwelcome attention . |
| 21 | Zen thought he was going to be shown some decisive new piece of evidence , but Bartocci simply reached through the space left vacant on the shelf and with a grunt of effort manipulated a lever . |