Example sentences of "some [noun sg] [be] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some progress is being made with modelling the information flow processes within organisations : for example , Land ( 1985 ) ; Stamper ( 1985 ) ; Sullivan & Smart ( 1957 ) . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , some progress is being made in assessing the costs and benefits associated with even the most complex pollution problems , such as visibility degradation . |
| 3 | Within individual European countries , however , some progress is being made . |
| 4 | But certainly , some progress is being made towards the common funding formula . |
| 5 | The islands could hardly survive without an export crop : some progress was being made in establishing cotton-growing when , in the 1640s , English politics and Dutch commerce worked together in a way that decided the course of the West Indies for centuries . |
| 6 | At first it appeared that some progress was being made . |
| 7 | If " some change is being made we need to look into the viewpoints of all those who are going to be affected by the change . |
| 8 | You see archive photographs , usually punted out in a TV documentary on the demise of industry , or in actuality when some building is being demolished : lockers with the owners ' names ( and some unintelligible graffiti ) still on them , a filing cabinet with some abandoned document ( ‘ 4 April , 1962 . |
| 9 | Only a very small number of authorities were unable to say that some money was being directly spent on training or were unable to indicate a person or people at least nominally responsible for training ( see Chapter 3 for discussion of resources available for training ) . |
| 10 | But now some attempt is being made to help them . |
| 11 | To prevent the proprietor sitting on his patent , deliberately failing to use it , section 48 of the Act allows any person to apply for a compulsory licence under the patent , after the expiry of three years if , for example , the patent is not being worked or some abuse is being made of the patent monopoly such as if the product is not being made available at reasonable terms . |
| 12 | Some criticism is being levelled at pet shop owners for indiscriminate buying and selling . |
| 13 | This disease has been eradicated from the world , an achievement which must rank as one of WHO 's greatest successes , although some vaccine is being kept in a limited number of centres in case of resurgence of smallpox . |
| 14 | Banbury town centre , it 's the Michaelmas street fair on from today until Saturday ; there are various road closures and some traffic is being diverted , so that 's causing a bit of extra congestion to Banbury town centre . |
| 15 | Some success is being reported , with a net gain in forest area of 34 000 hectares in 1980 . |
| 16 | I have noticed recently that in the climbing world some consideration is being given to the lack of participation by black people . |
| 17 | The argument is extended to the work of the units themselves each of which is felt ‘ to have its own strengths ’ and which , at a time when some pressure was being exerted by the LEA , should be permitted to retain its distinctive and separate character . |
| 18 | Some effort is being made to look at general issues such as the effect of industrial organisation and firm size on standards and the form and value of published statistics . |
| 19 | ‘ The wrapping 's second-hand , ’ Vitor continued , looking at the hessian , ‘ and if some guy was being super-efficient he could have decided that whatever it was which had been dumped on the road it should be tidied away . ’ |