Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | He was staring at her as though he was piecing together bits of her personality like a mathematician working on some equation . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I have been teaching machine knitting for some time and often come across pupils who have experienced the same problem . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | craft and practical work leading to some experience of design and technology and of solving problems ; |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The normal summer day will be hot and sticky , the city haze holding in some moisture . |
| 14 | Later that Wednesday , as she was teaching a class of children , two men came into the classroom asking for some paper and pencils . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | These express the beliefs of law and order , and justice and freedom , hegemonic beliefs necessary for both citizen and state in any society aspiring to some model of equality . |
| 19 | In 1867 , whilst excavating in the ancient theatre at Ephesus , he found an inscription in Greek referring to some gold and silver statuettes , which , on festive days , were carried from the temple to the theatre by way of the Magnesian Gate . |
| 20 | You 're supposed to be taking things easy , and I come home after a day 's work and a beastly journey hoping for some restoration and some intelligent company . |
| 21 | Now with its half-disc leaning upon some island the evening sun sets . |
| 22 | I sink a little lower in the bed hoping for some sleep . |
| 23 | The head of Keats , for example , wildly festooned with metal locks which it had proved impossible to file smooth had flown very erratically indeed , killing only a fat money-lender and a camel standing at some distance from the field of action . |
| 24 | Dr Baly finds the only theory satisfactorily supported by evidence is that " which regards the cause of cholera as a matter increasing by some process , whether chemical or organic , in impure or damp air " … |
| 25 | Yet he had been unable to deny , especially when alcohol had begun to leech the starch from his scholarly brain , that her avid interest in the distant doings of Everett , Morpurgo and the Tyrrell Society was inexplicable , unless it constituted a cause corresponding in some way to the effect of her disappearance . |
| 26 | No empirical science can operate without human intuitive judgement intervening at some point . |
| 27 | Naturally enough , for vigorous growth , a medium consisting of some clay or mud is needed . |
| 28 | Preparation for independence , when it occurred , was seen as a problem of constitution-building according to some model based on principles derived from the domestic experiences of the colonial powers . |
| 29 | For this simple , self-evident reason , the birth of twins , and especially identical twins , would have seemed to the ancients nothing short of miraculous — a phenomenon attesting to some intervention of divine origin . |
| 30 | A pattern recogniser working on some form of segmentation relies on the fact that the input script contains all the necessary characters correctly formed . |