Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practice , the operator jumps forwards and backwards within the pattern indicated on the chart rechecking some decisions and anticipating others . |
| 2 | It was probably the wind rattling some lattice , but she was going to find out . |
| 3 | Why it was thought appropriate to leave the important matter of imposing tax on building societies to secondary rather than primary legislation in this way remains a mystery ; but , whatever the explanation , the experiment was a total disaster and resulted in the Revenue producing some regulations in respect of a particular period of assessment which were so hopelessly flawed that the House of Lords found itself compelled to declare them void as being ultra vires . |
| 4 | On July 24 a bomb exploded outside the offices of the Istanbul Chamber of Industry causing some damage but no casualties . |
| 5 | Rocastle got a page long interview expressing some puzzlement at Wilko keeping him out of the first team . |
| 6 | Mann was also followed in Raviraj ( 1987 ) 85 Cr.App.R. 93 , where the unsuccessful contention on appeal was that the admission of an interview containing some answers and some refusals to comment amounted to a breach of the right to silence . |
| 7 | Likewise , a command enjoining some action which was logically impossible , or which had already been carried out , or a lie that through ignorance on the part of the perpetrator turned out to be objectively true , can both be considered defective through the lack of a canonical trait . |
| 8 | This latter is especially severe in its effects on women , but both boys and girls are stunted in their intellectual growth , both by religion forbidding some ideas and teaching some false ones , and by the restrictions on the sexual researches of children . |
| 9 | Fabric : Airfoil , a 100% polyester microfibre which claims to be ‘ breathable , windproof and quick-drying giving some protection from drizzle and rain . ’ |
| 10 | There is also a specific condition affecting some bitches called pseudo-pregnancy , which can result in displays of unexpected aggression . |
| 11 | He pointed to a tray bearing some loaves and watered wine . |
| 12 | Nor should it prevent the Library Association exercisng some influence on local government and other organizations disposed to interfere with the right of access to legally permissible literature ; nor should it prevent the Library Association exerting some influence on national government which is disposed to censor . |
| 13 | Road in the A Six Double O Five there 's roadworks on the junction of Lane causing some delays . |
| 14 | Upstairs they 're going to buy em like erm bloody oh our Kelly 's into hair dressing some curling bloody brushes all sorts and that sort of thing for her . |
| 15 | A women sat outside her hut cooking some grass seeds for her two teenage children , both of whom were painfully thin and too weak to stand , and told me her story : Her husband had been shot months ago , and when the food ran out in her village her only choice was to come to Kismayo where aid agency food was arriving . |
| 16 | Obispal spotted a lone purestrain Stealer lurking some way down a dismal arcade lined by shuttered clothing stores . |
| 17 | Requires a fairly nutritious tank bottom containing some clay and organic detritus . |
| 18 | She had spread a newspaper on the chancel steps to receive the discarded items and next to it , arranged neatly side by side , were her handbag , a pair of scissors and a flat basket containing some sprays of foliage and white carnations . |
| 19 | Thus , where a covenant in a lease provided for the payment of rent in advance , the tenant was not entitled to prove an antecedent oral agreement under which he was to pay by way of bill of exchange maturing some time after tender ( Henderson v Arthur [ 1907 ] 1 KB 10 ) . |
| 20 | He appeared to have spent it blamelessly playing golf , dining with neighbours and at home doing some work . |
| 21 | The official estimate was that the changes would result in nearly half of those pensioners who were on benefit losing some income , excluding the reduced single payment entitlements . |
| 22 | Plaster dust floated down from the ceiling making some people choke and one little girl shriek that it had got into her eyes . |
| 23 | While his wife was away from home visiting some relations , Linkworth strangled his mother . |
| 24 | Many hauliers have spent years operating vehicles actually owned by the haulage company , but the benefits of expanding business using some form of contract hire agreement can not be ignored . |
| 25 | I understand , however , that in 1982 , in the Lothian and Borders region , there was an entry on the computer for one in six of the population suggesting some kind of suspicion . |
| 26 | A PAC is a group representing some interest such as labour or more specifically abortion or gun control . |
| 27 | Efficiency is discussed in relation to the wealth tax replacing some income tax or a projected increase in income taxes . |
| 28 | Situation : A is a police-officer investigating some damage that has been done near the school A thinks that B may have had something to do with it . |
| 29 | Although he never made his views public , he is believed to have argued in favour of the review group supporting some form of electoral reform . |
| 30 | Although the guidebook says it 's E2 5c , this is the kind of climb where a grade lacking some type of ‘ stomach shuffle component means it is n't that relevant . |