Example sentences of "are [v-ing] [prep] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It makes it easier , in principle , to ‘ see ’ how many hypotheses are competing for some portion of an utterance , for example , and to decide which are the most promising given the evidence . |
| 2 | I mean if , if they are in bed , I mean if they are there they are resting to some extent , even if they 're sort of awake but |
| 3 | Their meaning is not easily grasped by those who have spent some time studying the Christian faith , and yet the church still presents these complicated extracts from the Bible and the ASB to people who may never have heard the name of God spoken reverently before , and who are searching for some germ of belief to help them understand the vacuum created by the death of the person they love . |
| 4 | First you are looking for some mystery man called Svend , then it is your sister , but all the time you are taking an inventory of my apartment . ’ |
| 5 | They are looking at some wire wool that has rusted . |
| 6 | From a practical standpoint we are suffering from some jail overcrowding problems here and certainly this was one option to take an offender who does n't really belong behind iron bars and punish them at home , and from a personal standpoint I was sort of intrigued with the novelty of it all and the technology aspects of it . |
| 7 | There is not much point in weighing less but looking as if you are suffering from some wasting disease . |
| 8 | Children 's motivation can be maintained during a project if they are working towards some culmination of the activity . |