Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too . |
| 2 | We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too . |
| 3 | It makes it easier , in principle , to ‘ see ’ how many hypotheses are competing for some portion of an utterance , for example , and to decide which are the most promising given the evidence . |
| 4 | Division Two of this event is probably best left to Tom Jones 's Sadler 's Wells newcomer Alyakkh , about whom local work-watchers have been cooing for some time . |
| 5 | I set off again , maintaining for some reason — perhaps because I expected further farm creatures to wander across my path — my slow speed of before . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Based on an earlier estimate of £70,000 for computerised support of approximately 20,000 files in another department ( without networking costs ) , a similar system for the Highways and Planning departments , allowing for some economy of scale , could have cost in excess of £150,000 at the prices that were then current . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | Even allowing for some massaging of programmes into ‘ serious ’ categories , ITV 's progressive seriousness saw a halving of its ‘ entertainment ’ schedules . |
| 10 | Since the department since the regional office has been suggesting for some time , or throughout the entire process of this structure plan alteration , that erm an exceptions policy should be considered by the erm county council , I think it would be consistent that we would anticipate the panel could reach a conclusion on the inclusion of the major exceptions policy as part of this alteration . |
| 11 | If a patent were to be granted to the second business , it could prevent the first from using what it has already been using for some time . |
| 12 | But unions are for representing people properly , responsibly , not for using as some vehicle for your own political obsessions . |
| 13 | Nurses who have been nursing for some time are likely to have reached the stage where much of what they do has become automatic , that is , carried out without conscious thought or awareness . |
| 14 | Indications of Mr Mandela 's growing political stature in the eyes of the government have been accumulating for some time . |
| 15 | The strobing of the light froze monsters in mid-motion , gathering for some assault . |
| 16 | She was in pain , but she was taking it out on a complicated Fair Isle jumper that she was knitting for some nephew in Canada . |
| 17 | I have been teaching machine knitting for some time and often come across pupils who have experienced the same problem . |
| 18 | However , the patient is likely to continue coughing for some time after the antibiotics have been stopped , and the sputum that is produced when the patient coughs will be found to contain numerous pus cells on microscopic examination . |
| 19 | Anne felt helpless , only able to wipe her mother 's face and grip her hands , praying for some relief for her . |
| 20 | Dying for some sleep . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm dying for some punch . |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't know what he meant , ’ Allen said after they had been walking for some time on the soft turf at the verge of the track . |
| 23 | After walking for some time , having covered about half the distance between the two stations , Willie became aware of a steady , yet rather unnerving sound just ahead as if someone was hammering the rails . |
| 24 | After walking for some time through the wood Valdemar put his finger to his lips and motioned us to be quiet . |
| 25 | In this respect they are much the same as primitive people , who often take several days over assembling for some purpose and then several more to get started . |
| 26 | Our fellow-traveller had been mumbling for some time that he would ‘ hae tae get oot ! ’ . |
| 27 | That has been happening for some time , but the Secretary of State and the Minister should know that . |
| 28 | There were moments when the sun almost burst through the mist and I kept on driving , waiting and hoping for a first glimpse of the cordillera , my mind groping for some answer to the enigma of Iris Sunderby 's behaviour . |
| 29 | His mind drifted over the people whom he had heard about for the first time that morning , groping for some sort of perspective . |
| 30 | On the contrary , the country had been smouldering for some time . |