Example sentences of "is [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the other legal deposit libraries , NLS is participating in a preservation microfilming project funded in part by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation , which is devoting some $2.5m to this purpose in the UK . |
| 2 | But the other reason to break the journey is to see some of the outback . |
| 3 | Knutsford is situated some 16 miles to the south of Manchester . |
| 4 | The latest tomb to be found is situated some 250m west of the first at the base of an adobe truncated pyramid called Huaca Loro and contains a wide range of funerary offerings weighing in all around 1.2 tons . |
| 5 | Llyn Brenig is situated some 35 miles form Colwyn Bay , and is well worth a visit . |
| 6 | Once the schema is broken some interests will be affected more than others — hence the erection of barriers to change . |
| 7 | By ‘ information ’ Lorenz means that , in order for an animal 's behaviour to be adapted to the environment , the animal must have some knowledge ( information ) of the environment : if an animal is to perform some adaptive behaviour , such as finding food , it must know what food looks like . |
| 8 | I feel that somewhere over my head is hanging some kind of spirituality . |
| 9 | I feel that somewhere over my head is hanging some kind of spirituality-ometer , and that I have been found wanting . |
| 10 | Carrollton , Texas-based Westcott Communications Inc is to acquire some assets of TI-IN Network Inc , San Antonio , Texas , for 350,000 new Westcott shares worth about $11m , plus assumption of some liabilities ; TI-IN had audited revenues of some $7.3m and made a net loss of $697,000 for its fiscal year ended September 30 last ; it provides live interactive courses with two-way communication for school pupils in Grades K to 12 ; Westcott Communications says it pioneered satellite delivery of workplace training . |
| 11 | The same problem may also arise where the demised property is to include some projection . |
| 12 | What you can do is make some exaggerated moves such as lying on the floor , climbing through each other 's arms or whatever . |
| 13 | Crowood Press is reissuing some of the volumes of its useful Complete Guide series in paperback this month at £9.99 : six titles , at intervals from March to June . |
| 14 | So what I really want to do this month , well what I really want to do this month , is to lose some weight . |
| 15 | What we 've done in North Notts is to sink some new bore-holes . |
| 16 | The plan is to gather some 300 million measurements to improve the way scientists forecast the weather . |
| 17 | The company now says that it is producing some 20 million metres of VHS tape per month — enough to fill more than 100 000 cassettes . |
| 18 | While noting that Parolles is given some kind of dignity in verse , we should also observe that Shakespeare seldom ends a scene with a soliloquy in prose — Thersites and Falstaff are the only characters who do so more than once . |
| 19 | A planner is given some such task , where any venture into search would be rash . |
| 20 | Faith is given some organically grown fruit and vegetables from a neighbour 's allotment but ca n't afford organic produce in the supermarket . |
| 21 | If you are acting for a builder-seller selling a new dwelling and the builder is on the National House-Building Council 's register ( Chapter 13 ) , you may not , unless the property is completed some time before completion of the sale , have received the standard notice of insurance cover to hand over , in which case you will give an undertaking to do so as soon as it comes to hand . |
| 22 | I do so again to counter the growing myth that Teesside is becoming some sort of earthly paradise a wonderland where industry and nature have achieved perfect harmony . |
| 23 | Either the commission intuitively knows how supply and demand will change — in which case the commission is miraculous but unnecessary — or else the commission is applying some other unspecified standards and judgements of its own — in which case the commission will be a tyrant if it can impose its decisions and a laughing stock if it can not . |
| 24 | Although the company has a plant in London , it is expected some of the work will go to the company 's French factories . |
| 25 | It is expected some of the Manual will be suitable to be offered to the Contracts and Purchasing Working Group charged with producing their own procedures document for BS5750 . |
| 26 | The review here can not claim to have gone into any great depth , but its purpose is correspondingly modest , and that is to provide some support to this generalisation . |
| 27 | ‘ Our job is to provide some activities so that people can then choose whether or not they want to be involved . |
| 28 | The purpose of this chapter is to provide some part of the conceptual clarification and social and historical background that is essential to an analysis of the nature of ‘ race ’ as an element in British education and society . |
| 29 | Likewise , Le Gai Savoir , made in 1968 , was a gloss on Rousseau 's Emile ou l'éducation and propounded that ‘ the central problem of education is to provide some understanding of the sounds and images that bombard us in our everyday lives ’ ( MacCabe 1980 , p. 20 ) . |
| 30 | The object of the study is to provide some answers to such questions and to identify specific measures which might assist in the achievement of certain national goals , such as preventing further loss of broadleaved woods . |