Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] to [be] [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | A far distant bell in her exhausted mind seemed to be ringing some kind of warning . |
| 2 | The driver seemed to be playing some kind of survival game with the girls of the Navimore School : he slowed down out of courtesy to the bus stop sign , but took it no further than that . |
| 3 | At that time , as George Orwell reflected , the campaign appeared to be exerting some impact upon British politics for , ‘ In England the Popular Front is only an idea , but it has already produced the nauseous spectacle of bishops , Communists , cocoa-magnates , publishers , duchesses and Labour MPs marching arm-in-arm to the tune of ‘ Rule Brittania ’ . |
| 4 | Werewolf seemed to be conducting some sort of slaughter out there . |
| 5 | By March 5 troops loyal to Saddam Hussein appeared to be achieving some success against the rebels . |
| 6 | They were quietly seething , June 1988 may not have been the right time for demonstrations , but parts of the student body and some sectors of the urban population appeared to be contemplating some form of action to let the government know of their intentions . |
| 7 | In particular , it is felt that the student needs to be allowed some freedom to choose the elements of his own course within the disciplines concerned and to be given the opportunity to spend a proportion of his time working outside his chosen disciplines , for which appropriate credit should be given in the assessment of his degree . |
| 8 | Rod Wallace appears to be producing some good performances although he 's not putting all his chances away — those misses in the first half on Saturday would probably be crucial against a good side . |
| 9 | Each man seeming to be weighing some hidden sword . |
| 10 | Speaker A appears to be offering some new elements as part of the conversational topic , again deriving from some personal reference ( as in my father ) which speaker B appears to accept . |
| 11 | At the other extreme is the stance taken on the MoD 's continuing tenure , which insists that it is not proper that the public continue to be excluded some of the time from all , and all of the time from some , of the finest coastal scenery in the British Isles . |
| 12 | For that to happen , students have to be given some space in which to develop intellectually in their own way . |
| 13 | Lady Roscarrock seemed to be containing some inner pressure that was about to erupt . |