Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | If the effect is not present , or the unit is clearly malfunctioning in some way , switch off at once and recheck all the wiring . |
| 34 | It seems to me we 're also coming across some sort of Eastern influence here as well . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | It seems highly likely , for example , that much of the nitrate now appearing in some ground water in Britain was actually first released almost fifty years ago , when grassland was ploughed to make way for cereal as the country strove to increase its home-grown food supply . |
| 37 | ‘ We are really looking for some sort of justice for these people . |
| 38 | The owner was angrily shouting at some boys to stop bumping the cars deliberately . |
| 39 | It is true that it has been forecast as being upon us for a long time , but things are now really moving in some areas . |
| 40 | But probably a guard had spotted it and it was right now sitting in some staff-room in Queen Street station , or Gallanach . |
| 41 | In particular , can Poulantzas explain specific conjunctures and the shifting relations between classes without tacitly relying on some sort of volun-tarism ? |
| 42 | ‘ So I 'm really hoping for some sort of sponsorship for the eight months we 're away , ’ she added . |
| 43 | The pop style of Tom Jones was a development of Richardson 's magpie approach to cinema aesthetics , already evident in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner , even drawing upon some pantomime elements from the ‘ Carry On ’ films . |
| 44 | It is not surprising to find the Russian government in 1784 asking officially for information on the organisation of the ministry ; and the memorandum drawn up in response to this request by one of the premiers commis paints , even allowing for some gilding of the lily , an impressive picture of the efficiency with which , at least in theory , correspondence was classified , answered and indexed . |
| 45 | Even allowing for some massaging of programmes into ‘ serious ’ categories , ITV 's progressive seriousness saw a halving of its ‘ entertainment ’ schedules . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | Allen told a conference prior to the company 's annual meeting that March calling volumes were strong , ‘ even discounting for some weather which popped it up a bit . ’ |
| 48 | The uhum , C & A 's has a lot of them , went down there looking for some shoes for Amy . |
| 49 | By the time the three-quarters mark of the set screeches past , you 're almost hankering after some form of relief . |
| 50 | There has to be a period of simply understanding how things work ; then graduating to some degree of management control . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | The dancers paused , evidently waiting for some acknowledgement or reciprocal gesture , but there was none . |
| 53 | Signs are constantly available to help motivated users who are actively searching for some form of information . |
| 54 | 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 . |
| 55 | If DCE is accepted as a de facto standard , Novell says it may embed the modules NetWare , although it says this is unlikely to happen unless OSF reviews its DCE licensing fees currently running at some $2,500 . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | I was recently working with some badgers in Lancashire , and I still had the remnants of a cold . |