Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if I 've been away working for some time , it 's completely different . |
| 2 | Nevertheless if they were going to fly again they were gon na pay for a seat and they 're only looking for some recompense towards a new new ticket what 's wrong with sending them a voucher y'know , a properly produced voucher that we c that 's controlled properly by and all they do is guarantee any travel at their normal travel agent , do the business , attach the voucher to the B S P |
| 3 | Erm if it 's um well generally speaking I think , thinking about what the sort of consensus would be among people who who study this sort of thing , they 're usually looking for some sort of of discrepancy in ages or powers or something . |
| 4 | It seems to me we 're also coming across some sort of Eastern influence here as well . |
| 5 | By the time the three-quarters mark of the set screeches past , you 're almost hankering after some form of relief . |
| 6 | What we are clearly seeing in some areas is roughly the same group of people exploiting the same local landscape for their subsistence requirements over a long period , but with successive generations living on different sites at different times . |
| 7 | ‘ We are really looking for some sort of justice for these people . |
| 8 | Indeed what we are now seeing in some cases as ‘ the genuine article ’ are quality brewery refurbishments dating from the 1920s and 1930s , good Brewers ‘ Tudor , maybe , but hardly the stuff of the ancient , inglenooky world that the modern myth-makers — the brewers and the tourism industry — would have us believe still exists . |
| 9 | But it may not be enough according to some industry commentators . |
| 10 | ‘ So I 'm really hoping for some sort of sponsorship for the eight months we 're away , ’ she added . |
| 11 | One possible reason for the lack of motivation within her class could be attributed to tasks not being sufficiently challenging for some pupils , whilst being beyond the intellectual grasp of others . |
| 12 | Yeah , I got the impression when the TV commentators were going on about the Turks being in Europe for the last 10 years they were just looking for some excuse to explain th scum 's ineptitude . |
| 13 | Fisheries officials believe that this could result in the rivers being permanently lacking in some species of fish , and this in turn poses a serious threat to the fishing communities on the river banks . |
| 14 | Yeah , mate , I 've just got in myself change stations but er Richard 's just talking about some kid who died from meningitis but it does n't mean a lot these days does it ? |
| 15 | A learner is usually searching for some property which fulfils criteria which have nothing to do directly with the observed data . |
| 16 | As in France and the UK , the number of consumers affected by water supplies with high nitrate levels is falling , but not the number of contaminated sources which is still rising in some regions . |
| 17 | If the effect is not present , or the unit is clearly malfunctioning in some way , switch off at once and recheck all the wiring . |
| 18 | Then , since there is no believing without some doubting and since believing is all the stronger for understanding and resolving doubt , we can say as Christians that if we doubt in believing it is also true that we believe in doubting . |
| 19 | The things like a case study where you have to gather lots of information and analyze it , I mean that 's just what the reflectors like , cos they want to feel that there 's you know they th working is not just it 's actually working on some fact . |
| 20 | Signs are constantly available to help motivated users who are actively searching for some form of information . |
| 21 | By the same token , most record-of-achievement schemes now are actively searching for some form of external accreditation through the validation of school procedures and pupils ' overall programmes . |
| 22 | In the south of the county , it was only beginning on some manors in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth , while on others it did not occur until the sixteenth and seventeenth . |
| 23 | Anderton said yesterday : ‘ I was just coming into some form when I had to have my operation . |
| 24 | She was still feeling to some degree quite bemused as she walked along to her room . |
| 25 | However , if Ross had been suffering from boredom , he managed to hide the fact very well when , only a few days later , he contacted her at the small London flat she was temporarily sharing with some friends from university , and invited her out to dinner . |
| 26 | The owner was angrily shouting at some boys to stop bumping the cars deliberately . |
| 27 | I was recently working with some badgers in Lancashire , and I still had the remnants of a cold . |