Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [prep] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The law does not permit the right of the press freely to report proceedings in open court to be fettered , notwithstanding that such reporting would be inconvenient , embarrassing or damaging to some individual who has featured in the case . |
| 2 | In which case are Upehull and Upsall related , the ‘ s ’ having been introduced by scribal error or misreading at some stage , or is the later form a name given to a family coming originally from Uppsala in Sweden ? |
| 3 | There is good reason for its common name ; the bruised foliage , whose odour has mint-like associations , induces cats to roll all over the plant , eventually ruining it , but it is said that plants grown from seed will be safe until dying down , or withering for some reason . |
| 4 | The fewer women slashed from jaw to groin , the fewer men with their throats cut , hanging in a garret or swinging from some beam under a bridge . |
| 5 | Many of those at the foot of the scale , whose substance was equalled by that of superior labourers , must have occupied very small holdings , and had to eke out a livelihood with occasional labouring or working at some by-employment ; they have aptly been termed ‘ cottage farmers ’ . |
| 6 | As we have seen , schools are also to be given the option of leaving the Local Authority altogether and becoming in some sense independent , though with non-fee-paying pupils . |
| 7 | Rooted in civil society and operating with some independence from inter-state relations , such institutions provided a potential check and counter-balance to the tendency towards anarchy inherent in a system of rival nation states . |
| 8 | He stared down at her for a few seconds , almost as if searching for some clue hidden in her expression . |
| 9 | He moved along the hedge , feeling the breeze from the south and looking for some spot where he could sit and scent it without too much risk . |
| 10 | ‘ You drove to Penzance , leaving home at about seven-thirty , you went to the film and started to drive back , but your van broke down at Badger 's Cross and after trying to start it and sheltering for some time , you walked home , arriving at about half-past two . ’ |
| 11 | Unlike the families of middleclass dropouts , skinhead families were generally supportive , helping with money and acting as some sort of barrier against school and the police . |
| 12 | She needed strength : her and Bernard 's nightly love play would go on for hours , limbs lurching and surging in some kind of gladiatorial combat as if the one who weakened first lost . |
| 13 | This means giving them assistance in their cases , and even ( with the client 's consent ) taking cases for them in court if owing to some clash of appointments they find themselves unable to appear . |
| 14 | But to Perdita they appeared curiously passive , sitting and waiting for some man to make them unhappy . |
| 15 | The disquiet and consternation he had set up among the brothers would go on echoing and re-echoing for some time , while he who had caused it had recoiled into numbness and exhaustion . |
| 16 | Another interesting question is whether you have any right of redress if , while continuing to pay your salary , your employer does not give you any work to do , perhaps sending you home and saying for some reason , ‘ Do n't call us , we 'll call you ’ . |
| 17 | A body of men and women ( a ) identifiable by reference to some register or record ; ( b ) recognised as having a special skill and learning in some field of activity in which the public needs protection against incompetence , the standards of skill and learning being prescribed by the profession itself ; ( c ) holding themselves out as being willing to serve the public ; ( d ) volun-tarily submitting themselves to standards of ethical conduct beyond those required of the ordinary citizen by law and ; ( e ) undertaking to accept personal responsibility to those whom they serve for their actions and to their profession for maintaining public confidence . |
| 18 | ’ British pop evolved from R&B dance culture , but while the working classes were coming home from the factory and putting on some Motown , the people who now run record companies were at university listening to Genesis or Peter Frampton or whatever — their only contact with pop culture was Gary Glitter or Sweet . |
| 19 | This work seems to us to be truly depraving and corrupting unlike some sex films which offend solely on grounds of impropriety . |
| 20 | The man stared at her in stunned silence , his chest rising and falling with some kind of agitation . |
| 21 | Rainbow , looking towards my mirror as if hoping for some kind of guidance , is pulled backwards through the kitchen door . |
| 22 | Adults , particularly caring parents , appreciating its transience and its value , have the feeling that every moment of childhood should be spent in activity that is clearly worthwhile and rewarding in some way . |
| 23 | If you do n't you could use an A four pad building up a picture of the guy and trying at some time |
| 24 | First appearing as tiny black spots on the upper surfaces of leaves , this is the outward sign that the fungus has already been inside the tissue and working for some time . |
| 25 | As in Figure 1 , then , we have four principal categories of nomic or necessary connection , each involving some fundamental nomic connection but differing in some respect from each other category . |
| 26 | They worked up petitions to parliament while engaging in some correspondence with each other . |
| 27 | It worries me that turning a blind eye to the deliberate starvation of these patients is portrayed as contributing in some way to the high ethical standards of the nursing profession . ’ |
| 28 | Actually , I was surprised when looking through some book a couple of years ago to find that players like Gray played relatively few game per season , often being injured . |
| 29 | In Britain it would appear that the percentage of those aged 65 + defined as living in some form of institution has remained constant or perhaps decreased slightly . |
| 30 | As he began to speak , he seemed to grow less and less aware of his audience and continually turned his head , as though listening to some sound , audible only to himself from the entrance tunnel behind him . |