Example sentences of "[v-ing] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | His long neck was tinged a bright pink as though reflecting some internal glow . |
| 2 | This is not a conditional statement , reflecting some deal that God makes with us : ‘ You forgive first , then I 'll forgive you . ’ |
| 3 | Inadvertently reflecting some of the new-found ‘ posse ’ mentality , EV 's three writers sing their own songs , diffusing still further the four-square thrust of conventional rock with chiming , circular guitar runs ( a million miles away from indie 's dull scrubbing ) and rueful bass hums . |
| 4 | The simplest method is to switch off the lights and to lighten the shadow areas by reflecting some of the daylight back onto the subject . |
| 5 | The writer Valentin Rasputin , reflecting some of these concerns , went so far as to complain at the Congress of People 's Deputies in 1989 of ‘ Russophobia ’ on the part of other nationalities . |
| 6 | Pelite and Chelnock lakes , respectively supraglacial and proglacial , are fed by melting ice cliffs ; Crooked Lake is an open-valley lake fed by a through-flowing river , and there are many closed valley lakes reflecting the water balance prevailing over previous centuries ; one , Thalatine Lake , has over 40 minor beach terraces reflecting some 1300 years of evaporation . |
| 7 | Having researched extensively into critical writings on Thomas since the publication of the first edition , Anstey has retained seven of the original essays , adding a further seven to give a comprehensive collection reflecting some reappraisal of Thomas 's writings and also responses to new work over the past ten years . |
| 8 | The growth rate in original currencies was 9.4% , reflecting some selective volume growth and the impact of significant rating action . |
| 9 | Written premiums for the quarter were up from $282.0m to $333.6m reflecting some volume growth and a significantly higher average premium across the whole account . |
| 10 | The group reviewed evidence that the warming effect might be delayed by the high levels of sulphur dioxide present in the atmosphere as a result of industrial pollution , on account of the gas 's property of reflecting some of the sun 's incoming heat . |
| 11 | The decline of community and the rise of a society in which association was becoming in some sense secondary can also be seen as reflecting some of the profound social and spatial changes that were actually taking place in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries . |
| 12 | The report suggested that sulphur dioxide emissions , mainly from industry and power stations , but also volcanoes , most notably Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines , were leading to the formation of a thin film of sulphate particles in the atmosphere , which were reflecting some sunlight . |
| 13 | But the market seems to have been generating some big increases for certain quite junior City people — notably in foreign exchange and swaps . |
| 14 | This collaboration was not only about generating some ideas which could become possible policies , it was also designed to allow a sharing of a common challenge and to promote understanding of the fact that everyone in an LMS environment has a vital role to play . |
| 15 | Becker hints at the inside model when he concludes , not without generating some confusion , that ‘ whether a given act is deviant or not depends in part on the nature of the act ( that is , whether or not it violates some rule ) and in part on what other people do about it ’ . |
| 16 | The price would only be fixed at the end of the selling period , generating some uncertainty for the issuer . |
| 17 | erm so erm I do n't know it 's just down to generating some questions . |
| 18 | Horse riding is a significant part of the economy , generating some £350 million a year in business for ancillary trades . |
| 19 | The latter reform can not be introduced without hazarding some risks . |
| 20 | The council is going to issue Bonsai World with a notice prohibiting some of it 's activities . |
| 21 | She and Paula , who was in the sixth form , had struck up a close relationship ; when Louise was not occupied in tantalising and inflaming some poor young man she and Paula were always together , drinking endless cups of espresso coffee to the accompaniment of Elvis and Cliff and Tommy Steele on the juke-box in the Black Cat Coffee Bar , haring about on Louise 's smart little Lambretta scooter , or simply spending an evening painting one another 's toenails , plucking one another 's eyebrows and generally trying to make themselves even more fatally attractive to the opposite sex , which , without doubt , they already were . |
| 22 | The time and expense involved in manufacturing some of the more individualistic pieces of metalwork may ultimately reflect the greater social standing of their users , and this must be appreciated when considering the controls over their distribution pattern . |
| 23 | Similarly the Shell enterprisal spawns glossy scriptures about community environmental projects that it will fund , while manufacturing some of the Planet 's most treacherous chemicals . |
| 24 | Answering ‘ yes ’ to the second question means accepting some well tried principles of communication : |
| 25 | Leaving aside here the more extreme version of the theory of elites as expounded by Pareto or by Ortega y Gasset ( 1930 , p. 49 ) in his distinction between the inert masses and ‘ the select men , the nobles , the only ones who are active and not merely reactive ’ , we can identify two types of political theory which , while accepting some aspects of modern democracy , are concerned to limit its significance . |
| 26 | During his visit Hammadi reportedly attempted to persuade Iran to press SAIRI into accepting some form of power-sharing deal . |
| 27 | Fumio Abe , the leader of the Miyazawa faction within the LDP , was formally charged on Feb. 1 with accepting some 80,000,000 yen ( US$600,000 ) in bribes from the bankrupt Kyowa Steel Corporation in return for allegedly awarding construction contracts to the company in respect of tourism developments in the northern island of Hokkaido . |
| 28 | The offeror often reserves the right to waive the higher condition , however , and the consequences of accepting some lower percentage are described in para 9.1.2 below . |
| 29 | After firing some 80 rounds from his legally owned 7.62mm SKS Chinese semi-automatic rifle , Frankum shot himself dead . |
| 30 | Cuthbertson also advanced the subject of electricity in the Netherlands , writing books , giving public lectures , and assisting some of the foremost Dutch scientists with their experiments . |