Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [prep] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The syntactic component could look at all the word-pairs for each tag ending at some vertex in the graph and discard all but the highest scoring , based on the acoustic scores and the pair-wise probabilities , since , given this parsing method , no later information is relevant to the decision . |
| 2 | So InterCity declared a policy for the 1990s of offering catering in some form , on all their services . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The most important development in sprint and marathon racing for some time was the introducing of starting gates at the World Sprint Championships in Paris . |
| 5 | The most commonly prescribed drugs were hypnotics to make young children sleep and anti-depressants for treating bedwetting , plus tranquillizers for teenagers suffering from some kind of psychological disturbance . |
| 6 | So I was surprised when at last she started to draw me , her hand moving lightly over the page once more , her eyes flickering with some interest at last . |
| 7 | He was staring at her as though he was piecing together bits of her personality like a mathematician working on some equation . |
| 8 | There were racetrack express buses , I found , going from the city to the Downs , so I went on one at about six o'clock and strolled around at ground level looking for some way of conveying to Bill Baudelaire the water samples which were now individually wrapped inside the nondescript plastic carrier . |
| 9 | In both cases there 's a facility for storing data , for performing operations according to some sort of program , and for telling the operator the results . |
| 10 | I have been teaching machine knitting for some time and often come across pupils who have experienced the same problem . |
| 11 | The way we have chosen the symbols T and S also means , conveniently , that trajectories threading their way through the top face of the box B according to some sequence of Ts and Ss , make the same sequence of passes through the tubes , T and S. |
| 12 | Early morning 's not my best time , specially when I 've spent half the night dreaming terrible dreams and the other half listening to some loon droning on about turtles in Japan — but it was great dawdling along by the river . |
| 13 | craft and practical work leading to some experience of design and technology and of solving problems ; |
| 14 | ’ … frightened when I arrived in London today , ’ he heard Tessa saying at some stage . |
| 15 | A myriad of associations campaigning for some form of political and economic union proliferated across all the democracies and across most political party persuasions : for example , the United Europe Movement in Britain , organised by Churchill ; the Catholic Nouvelles Équipes Internationales and the Socialist Movement for the United States of Europe in France , but both with some following in Belgium and Luxembourg ; and the Europa-Bund in Germany . |
| 16 | This recalls the habitual remark of youngsters admitting to some misdemeanor performed under the influence of another : He made me do it ! , which would be significantly different from He forced me to do it which implies an action one was pushed into by means of force rather than one performed under coercion . |
| 17 | I began to wonder whether or not I had been the victim of an extended delusion , which was perhaps the function of an overheated adolescence leading to some kind of psycho-hormonal explosion . |
| 18 | TASK 6 required children to write instructions and explanations relating to some game familiar to them . |
| 19 | That was Fiona , in the bed , on the bed , covers half off , the only light in the room coming from a little candle by the bedside , her hair spilled on the pillow ( the other pillow was on the floor ) … and that was Lachlan Watt , wrapped round her , body bucking like some horse , his hands at her neck , at one breast , in her hair , cupping her neck ; the covers sliding off , Fiona putting her arms wide , clutching at the bottom sheet of the bed at one side , clutching the edge of the bedside table with the other . |
| 20 | Right then we , we 'll leave some of the physics and stuff that we 've been doing behind now and just spend one lecture looking at some chemistry which I know will be equally popular . |
| 21 | To think of a traitor amongst their own people lacerated him as much as the thought of Iain or Donald lying in some cell . |
| 22 | The other main group in the public sector which adopts accruals accounting in some form is local authorities . |
| 23 | The normal summer day will be hot and sticky , the city haze holding in some moisture . |
| 24 | Later that Wednesday , as she was teaching a class of children , two men came into the classroom asking for some paper and pencils . |
| 25 | The need to ensure that the expert has the power to award interest will arise in the following circumstances : ( 1 ) Does the issue referred to the expert include a claim for damages arising from some breach of contract that has already occurred ? ( 2 ) Is the issue the expert is called on to determine essentially what amount of money one side owes the other , and when that sum is payable ? ( 3 ) Is there likely to be a delay in obtaining the expert 's decision on the amount payable ? |
| 26 | Dunn ( 1976 ) underlines this point and argues that , in some rural areas in Britain , the largest settlements would not qualify as service centres according to some threshold criteria . |
| 27 | He 'd heard the daily summary coming through some time after midnight , but he had n't bothered to check it ; anything important or relevant and Stoneley would have telephoned him direct , and there were too many big shadows and dark corners in the schoolroom for his liking . |
| 28 | Motions starting in some volume of phase space ( the basin of attraction of the attractor ) can follow complicated transients but , as |
| 29 | It is already clear that , for example , if the objective of the central government is to encourage local authority spending in some service , a matching grant will be preferred to a lump-sum grant , even though the lump-sum may increase the welfare of the local authority residents by more than a matching grant . |
| 30 | Presumably it saw service for iron working at some time , although in later life it was used for corn grinding , saw milling , as well as being operated for a time as a maltings . |