Example sentences of "is [v-ing] [prep] some [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the former are many participles , both present and past : ( 26 ) the watching crowd started to laugh he was greeted by smiling well-wishers the injured man had been feeding the orang-utan but participles do not exhaust the possibilities : ( 27 ) the angry bartender slammed the drink down five empty tumblers were standing by his elbow Notice , too , the clear ambiguity of : ( 28 ) a flashing light as meaning either a light which is flashing on some particular occasion , or one which normally has this characteristic . |
| 2 | LOOKING like he is appearing in some designer-conscious jeans advert , Nicholas Cage steps out of a big white gas guzzler on a sun-baked road in Wyoming . |
| 3 | Their daughter , Shelagh , has moved to Belfast where she has a job in an office but her younger brother , Sean helps here and there on the farm while he is looking for some other work , sadly without too much hope , since there is already much unemployment in the towns . |
| 4 | TRANMERE manager John King is looking for some special deliveries against Southend tonight . |
| 5 | In the light of their two powerful flashlights visibility was all that could be wished for and it took them only two minutes to carry out their examination : unless one is looking for some obscure mechanical fault there is very little to look for in an engine-room . |
| 6 | The anti-dog programme is meeting with some encouraging success , using poisoned bait which is hidden under dark ledges . |
| 7 | While your subconscious mind is searching for some final point to include in the margins , go on to the final stage . |
| 8 | Much of this material can not be found anywhere else outside the USSR , and , is according to some recent Soviet visitors , much can not be found even there . |
| 9 | He jibed that ‘ maybe it is waiting for some cross-shareholding agreements ’ with Bundespost Telekom . |
| 10 | For myself , I can not think that , for instance , the portrait of provincial manners in Madame Bovary is lacking in some particular aspect which would have been remedied had its author clinked tankards of cider every evening with some gouty Norman bergère . |
| 11 | The United States is particularly vulnerable in this respect , both because it is lacking in some valuable resources , and because its vast productive machine uses so much of everything . |
| 12 | One gets the impression that Picasso is striving for some ultimate pictorial truth , some absolute representation of reality . |
| 13 | Mark is staring at some blond God . |
| 14 | The field has already produced 650,000 barrels of oil and production is continuing at some 5,000 barrels a day — an excellent result , says Central Region production manager Mike Sigsworth . |
| 15 | As a matter of general law , apart from the statutory provisions and the Law Society 's regulations , the firm 's name must not be such as to deceive the general public into believing that it is dealing with some rival firm . |
| 16 | It seems he is indulging in some extra physio with the little darling who runs on with the sponge for Frampton . |