Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] some of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Words for strong stemming might be filtered through a table of exceptions which are not to be stemmed ( " organism " , " organist " etc ) Strong stemming is an economical but crude way of automatically bringing in some of the halo of see also terms which surround many search words . |
| 2 | ‘ Of course you do , ’ Alyssia replied , feeling slightly better now that she had succeeded in explaining away some of the astrologer 's words . |
| 3 | Yes I do erm Peter , it 's a smashing book erm very smart indeed and erm it 's it 'll be a really nice thing to have , it 'll be very useful this season for checking up some of the two year olds who are now three year olds , coming up in the next few months . |
| 4 | She could see waterfalls cascading down some of the mountain-sides and in the distance a lake . |
| 5 | If you start writing down some of the responses to that question , you will find you have along the way acquired a ragbag of elements that will have an important bearing on the design . |
| 6 | ‘ A botanical illustrator who 's retired here is filling in some of the gaps in our plant and tree records . |
| 7 | Russians are filling in some of the gaps in their lives by seeking out anything that was forbidden or hard to get in Soviet times . |
| 8 | Jessamy pushed them irritably to one side and began to work on one of the dragons , filling in some of the more intricate details . |
| 9 | Nonetheless , it did almost certainly delay the task of writing up some of the results contained in his voluminous notebooks . |
| 10 | Secondly , a postal survey , together with a small number of face-to-face interviews , will be undertaken with a view to filling out some of the material obtained from the initial synthesis . |
| 11 | Yoshida 's initiative did not have a dramatic effect but did assist in smoothing out some of the problems in reaching a settlement . |
| 12 | After the Restoration , Charles II followed the example of his predecessors by granting away some of the remaining royal forests . |
| 13 | I make no apology for going over some of the ground again . |
| 14 | It was bad enough having to admit that the APT train project was a dead duck , but BR shot itself in the foot and provided the cynical national media with a field day by selling off some of the vehicles to a Sheffield scrapyard . |
| 15 | The £25 million cost will be met by raising prices and selling off some of the little-used hostels . |
| 16 | These include moving all the pictures to the National Gallery ; storing the pictures in situ in a permanently closed Gallery ; selling off some of the pictures ( one such sale in 1971 caused public outcry ) ; and launching another major public appeal as in 1984–85 and 1988 ( unlikely to succeed again ) . |
| 17 | From 1986 onwards , the Thatcher government raised 4–6 billion a year by selling off some of the major public corporations — British Gas , British |
| 18 | My guess is he 's been selling off some of the better vintages over the past few years . ’ |
| 19 | But for those with loans over £30,000 where there is no tax relief , it is certainly worth considering paying off some of the mortgage - particularly since there is no clear indication of when rates might come down . |
| 20 | Note , however , that if the slack only takes the form of paying out some of the monopoly rents as higher remuneration to factors of production , then there is no efficiency loss implied . |
| 21 | In the final prints they were pushed back even more , loosing out some of the green . |
| 22 | When the house was empty I would take the key from round my neck , unlock the harmonium and experiment with pulling out some of the stops . |
| 23 | Case law has issued an expansive web of liability , with recent statutory provisions not only confirming these boundaries , but also marking out some of the potential penalties which may be imposed . |
| 24 | ‘ Murtach and the others are going round some of the outlying tenants now , to ensure they came to no harm . ’ |
| 25 | That 's how much memory you had , to start with , three hundred and twenty thousand bytes and that 's how much you 've got left , two hundred and eight thousand bytes i if you 've got a spreadsheet in memory so it 's using up some of the memory . |
| 26 | Yet there is a long way to go , particularly in breaking down some of the fixed images of early Anglo-Saxon society . |
| 27 | If this failed , words were assigned weights on an inverse term frequency basis ( uncommon words are worth more than common words ) , and the system would look for records containing just some of the words of the search . |
| 28 | Philip took the vase and put it on the table where it had been before , wiping off some of the dust with his elbow . |
| 29 | It was now decided to use this depôt for breaking up some of the cars displaced by the trolleybus conversions and the connection was reinstated on 2 June 1936 , but this time facing towards Croydon . |
| 30 | I did n't anticipate spending days mucking out some of the dirtiest piggeries I had ever seen . |