Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [v-ing] some [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within a year Labour was recapturing some of the political ground which it had lost at the local elections in November 1931 . |
| 2 | This project is examining some of the longer term implications for housing consumers and housing policies of the important changes which have recently been taking place in the institutional framework of owner-occupied housing finance in Britain . |
| 3 | AT&T 's NCR Federal Systems Division is upgrading some of the products it is supplying as part of US government contracts : it has added the AT&T StarStation 386 DX PC to its $800 million , eight-year Office Automation Technology and Services ( OATS ) contract with the the Federal Aviation Administration ( FAA ) which it won back in in 1989 — 12,500 Intel 80386-based personal computers and 2,500 laptops have been shipped so far — and has upgraded computers supplied under the 1988 , $1bn Standard Multi-user Small Computer Requirements Contract to run Unix SVR4 . |
| 4 | In this case the programmer is forgoing some of the precision of single-length fixed-point arithmetic in exchange for an increased range of values . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | At this stage of recognition , using the Mothercare catalogue or the Ahlbergs ' witty The baby 's catalogue , the young reader is learning some of the conventions we have mentioned , is finding a relationship between the content of books and outside reality , building up a useful vocabulary , and — if this is happening in a relaxed and loving environment — having a good time . |
| 7 | It is pleasing to be able to end by reporting that at last Dundonald Castle is receiving some of the attention it has been denied . |