Example sentences of "being [verb] [adv] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a new method and is being developed further with some optimism . |
| 2 | The very prospect of her life being picked over like some succulent titbit chilled her to the bone . |
| 3 | He imagined gravel being sifted , all the particles , the minute stones , being picked over by some policeman whose job it was to do that , the tiny flints laid in one tray , the wood fragments in another , and then , in a third , the shot . |
| 4 | Italian giants Inter Milan are understood to be watching the situation closely , with Pearce hoping Clough changes his mind and puts him more in line with the kind of wages being picked up by some of his England team-mates . |
| 5 | Lisa suddenly had the sensation of being caught up in some kind of nightmare . |
| 6 | The course is being offered initially to some 100 IBM staff and participants will have the opportunity to gain credit for their prior learning thus enabling the course to be completed in a shorter time . |
| 7 | Dr Schwarz has suggested that the evidence points to the regional divergence becoming a clear trend only after 1770 , with falls in real wages in the 1760s being avoided only by some groups in Lancashire and Yorkshire . |
| 8 | quivering and bedraggled , being wiped down by some of its colleagues . |
| 9 | I remember this fear quite distinctly as that of being swallowed up into some great emptiness : the struggle for individual identity , central to phenomenon of anorexia nervosa , had already begun , and already I was using the appropriate metaphor . |
| 10 | For more than a decade , OSO and oil companies , including British Petroleum , have built up contacts in China in spite of drilling being restricted previously to some offshore areas with little commercial potential . |
| 11 | Yet they see nothing inconsistent with objecting to a well-engineered nuclear waste disposal plant which is clearly necessary to dispose safely of irradiated material already created ; or to properly regulated high-combustion chemical waste disposal plants that are the only alternative ( unless we get rid of the chemical industry ) to toxic wastes being dumped surreptitiously in some field or on some beach . |
| 12 | They refer to the mines being set up by some Londoners and others " … of which nature they conceive this Copper worke to be , but to spend a farr greater proportion of fewell and therefore more odious , the redress wherof we leave to your honbl consideration . " |
| 13 | Is it really feasible that at the sort of level that 's being talked about , be it your level or the level being put forward by some of the objectors to the structure plan , the new settlement could actually hope to provide a good level of comparison shopping , for example ? |
| 14 | Highgate Cemetery was more or less on his way to the theatre , and although it was almost all old graves without flowers , he had seen some being left regularly by some nutty Communist at the grave of Karl Marx . |
| 15 | Even though the gap between clerical and lay religious intellectuals has closed , with clergy being left behind in some areas , the clerics remain the true cognoscenti in religious matters , and are expected to be so by the laity . |
| 16 | Feelings were being expressed freely in some quarters that the whole matter had been one of ‘ revenge ’ for support shown to the W family after eight children from the family of fifteen had been taken away three months before . |