Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [prep] some [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | His assembled staff stared stonily back , as he looked round at them , apparently calling for some kind of congratulations . |
| 2 | without perhaps compromising in some way of actually saying to you in January . |
| 3 | Can the Minister tell us whether Britain 's shipyards will be assured of a very early decision on a type 42 replacement , thus allowing for some continuity of work and ending the grave uncertainty in the shipyards so that men and management can get on with what they do best — building ships in British yards ? |
| 4 | With an effort Shannon pulled herself up to her full five-feet-three-inch height , desperately striving for some sort of dignity , even though she was shivering all over . |
| 5 | I gave the money to a thankfully dumb-struck fiddle-player on Sauchiehall Street and walked away feeling like some sort of martyred saint . |
| 6 | There were suggestions that the Khartoum government might now be willing to contemplate secession for the south , eventually leading to some form of federation with the north . |
| 7 | The idea is for a number of undergraduates in science and engineering ( about 80 this year ) to assist teachers by working with small groups of kids in the classroom , usually helping with some form of practical work , answering their questions and guiding them , if necessary , through the experiments . |
| 8 | Erm if it 's um well generally speaking I think , thinking about what the sort of consensus would be among people who who study this sort of thing , they 're usually looking for some sort of of discrepancy in ages or powers or something . |
| 9 | It seems to me we 're also coming across some sort of Eastern influence here as well . |
| 10 | ‘ We are really looking for some sort of justice for these people . |
| 11 | In particular , can Poulantzas explain specific conjunctures and the shifting relations between classes without tacitly relying on some sort of volun-tarism ? |
| 12 | ‘ So I 'm really hoping for some sort of sponsorship for the eight months we 're away , ’ she added . |
| 13 | It is not surprising to find the Russian government in 1784 asking officially for information on the organisation of the ministry ; and the memorandum drawn up in response to this request by one of the premiers commis paints , even allowing for some gilding of the lily , an impressive picture of the efficiency with which , at least in theory , correspondence was classified , answered and indexed . |
| 14 | Even allowing for some massaging of programmes into ‘ serious ’ categories , ITV 's progressive seriousness saw a halving of its ‘ entertainment ’ schedules . |
| 15 | One major principle of unit cost funding is that institutions would be treated equally according to some notion of the cost of their lecturers per student . |
| 16 | By the time the three-quarters mark of the set screeches past , you 're almost hankering after some form of relief . |
| 17 | There has to be a period of simply understanding how things work ; then graduating to some degree of management control . |
| 18 | Signs are constantly available to help motivated users who are actively searching for some form of information . |
| 19 | By the same token , most record-of-achievement schemes now are actively searching for some form of external accreditation through the validation of school procedures and pupils ' overall programmes . |