Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [v-ing] [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problems are most acute in Africa where population pressures are also greatest , though modification of South American savannas is increasing ; desertification is occurring in some areas as a result of overgrazing . |
| 2 | Benjamin Jowett ( 181793 ) , Master of Balliol College , Oxford , and one of the modernizing dons who supported endeavours to extend university education and to attract men from new social classes to Oxford , considered that " classical study is getting in some respects worn out , and the plan proposed [ the introduction of English Language and Literature at Oxford ] would breathe new life into it . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I looked up and the light was shining through some leaves across his face . |
| 5 | I mean if obviously the child is reacting in some way or feels that they ca n't even relax when they 're at home , erm then someone 's overstepped the mark . |
| 6 | Answer guide : This question is looking for some discussion around the realization and prudence principles . |
| 7 | In one of those asides , Johnson with the eye of a painter gives the last glimpse of these high ways in 1773 : ‘ Once we saw a corn field , in which a lady was walking with some gentlemen … ’ |
| 8 | There was one large stone farmhouse , outside which a small dark-haired girl was playing with some kittens by an empty farm-cart . |
| 9 | The woman Assassin was running through some muscle exercises , using her enhanced body sense to tense and untense . |
| 10 | Accountants inevitably greeted the court 's finding with some disquiet . |
| 11 | The old man is walking with some woman and one of those red dogs from the cigarette commercials . |
| 12 | There are the problems in Yugoslavia and in the Soviet Union , where a federation is moving towards some kind of commonwealth of independent states . |
| 13 | Lamond was talking to some people and then as he was leaving he came by me and said , ‘ But , you know , it was n't all as beautiful as you might imagine ! ’ |
| 14 | Until he got Jackson 's note he had been convinced that the man was suffering from some sort of regular illness . |
| 15 | If the model is travelling at some speed and/or a sharp turn is made , it will in fact gain height despite the fact that no back cyclic is applied . |
| 16 | If the model is travelling at some speed , things become much more complicated . |
| 17 | The first thing was to find a school for you three — for six months you had had no teaching , except what I could give you , and then kind Miss Budden , the headmistress at Auckland House school , Simla , said she could take you if I could come too and help her nurse about twenty children down with measles in the san. , because Matron was coping with some children with suspected diphtheria in another block . |
| 18 | Sistelcom 's president , Victoria Reinoso , announced that investment in the new system was running at some $3.5m per annum , and acknowledged that the system would run at a loss for the first two years . |
| 19 | The idea of two particles so near in mass was troubling for some people and made them wonder if some misinterpretations had occurred ; in particular Patrick Blackett , another Nobel Laureate , raised a question as to whether there might be other explanations of the pion decay . |
| 20 | ‘ I think , ’ said the Archdeacon , ‘ that the Bishop 's hoping for some movement before that . |
| 21 | Although the market is growing by some 69% per annum now , Ovum says that 's already down 10% on its 1991 report 's prediction , and will fall to 27% per annum by 1997 . |