Example sentences of "it is [verb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Not surprisingly , given the number of new products it has on the go , the company says that it is ploughing some 12% of its turnover back into research and development . |
2 | Britain 's BT has its own global offerings , Syncordia and Cyclone , into which it is sinking some $100m . |
3 | The American government has recently announced that it is to spend some $18 million to wipe out the pig population of Haiti in an effort to control the virus . |
4 | The Gwili is a small society running a two-mile line on a shoe-string and yet it is having some success in extending both the length of the line and its infrastructure . |
5 | The best way to find it is to look some way off a line joining Beta Ceti to Alpha Phœnicis . |