Example sentences of "it [is] [v-ing] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's amazing some of the things that have come back to me . |
| 2 | Some cloners think Sun regrets making previous Sparcstations too easy to knock off so it 's putting some obstacles in the way . |
| 3 | But it 's showing some great films ( the Japanese tech noir classic Tetsuo 2 , and Man Bites Dog , a stunning Belgian film about a charismatic granny killer ) . |
| 4 | It 's staging its own marches to counter the official demonstration and it 's changing some street names back to what they were before the revolution . |
| 5 | But er interestingly , the Americans have just put er more tax on to their gas for , for different reasons admittedly , and er the environmentalists er always feel happy about that because they 've been the ones who 've been telling us for years that er petrol is if anything underpriced , and that we 're rather profligate in the way that we use it , so er at least some people are happy out of this , not everybody , but it , but er it 's making some people happier . |
| 6 | A horse standing perfectly in the show ring , with its ears nicely pricked , may indicate that it is cross by pressing its lips tightly together , as if it is refusing some nasty-tasting medicine . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Any resistance or reluctance by the scion to take everything , perhaps because it is getting some of what it needs from its own roots , and the stock has to start looking for ways to get rid of the unused energy , and that means making its own top growth , which takes the form of suckers or ‘ briars ’ . |
| 9 | The company now says that it is producing some 20 million metres of VHS tape per month — enough to fill more than 100 000 cassettes . |
| 10 | Britain 's BT has its own global offerings , Syncordia and Cyclone , into which it is sinking some $100m . |
| 11 | And — in collaboration with AEA Petroleum Services — it is converting some selected microcomputer software to run on multiple workstations . ’ |
| 12 | It is a matter of deep concern to many small businesses — it is killing some of the most enterprising small firms — that they are not able to obtain proper payment of debt , often from larger and better-funded institutions than themselves . |
| 13 | Although it is giving some of its ‘ glue ’ source to USL , most of what USL will have and what will be distributed is binary . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | If a variable measured in the course of an experiment settles down with time , to a constant , or a maintained oscillation , it seems reasonable to assume that it is approaching some stable , maintained course that corresponds to an equilibrium or periodic solution |