Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] to some " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it may not be enough according to some industry commentators . |
| 2 | One can ask : does he mean that the horizontal moon , perhaps owing to some magnifying effect of the earth 's atmosphere , actually presents a larger appearance than the meridian moon , or does he mean merely that it looks bigger , perhaps because it is seen in a context of trees and houses ? |
| 3 | There were suggestions that the Khartoum government might now be willing to contemplate secession for the south , eventually leading to some form of federation with the north . |
| 4 | Or perhaps still according to some plan established days before . |
| 5 | I was once speaking to some 2,000 people in the Tent Hall in Glasgow when I noticed my audience 's attention drifting — something I 'm not used to ! |
| 6 | She was still feeling to some degree quite bemused as she walked along to her room . |
| 7 | I mean now talking to some of the girls a lot of their parents are very strict on them . |
| 8 | One major principle of unit cost funding is that institutions would be treated equally according to some notion of the cost of their lecturers per student . |
| 9 | There has to be a period of simply understanding how things work ; then graduating to some degree of management control . |
| 10 | Cutaways are a means of bridging jump-cuts , that is interruptions or discontinuities in the action , by briefly cutting to some related subject before returning to the main subject . |
| 11 | Before we erm before I came out today I was actually talking to some of the staff at Pembroke College and mindful of coming on her I thought I 'd just ask them what they thought |
| 12 | And before long Mala was actually responding to some of my witticisms with that flashing smile which alters her from being pretty in to being staggeringly beautiful . |