Example sentences of "at some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CHORUS : Why do you cry out thus , unless at some vision of horror ? |
| 2 | The most important form of such journeys , in quantitative terms , was probably that to the family summer holiday or ( for the more affluent and overfed ) to the annual cure at some spa . |
| 3 | Even in the absence of information about place and time of original utterance , even in the absence of information about the speaker / writer and his intended recipient , it is often possible to reconstruct at least some part of the physical context and to arrive at some interpretation of the text . |
| 4 | Her beauty had been something which had filled even herself with wonder ; sometimes in the privacy of her own room she would gaze at some part of herself , at a hand , say , or a breast , and the perfection of its shape would fill her with joy , as if it were not a part of herself but some natural object of beauty . |
| 5 | I mean , I ended up staying a month at some bloke 's house after I went in for a pack of strings ! |
| 6 | Now let's have a look at some circuit diagrams . |
| 7 | He had had to walk home , three and a half miles , but luckily his parents were out , at some deanery get-together , and Trish Pardoe , who helped in the shop , was babysitting Flora . |
| 8 | Blanche 's antennae were very sensitive at gauging the progress of an investigation but she relied on Dexter to hoover up male gossip that was beyond her reach , idle chatter in the canteen or the gents ' toilet that sometimes hardened into hostility or resentment at some way a case was being handled . |
| 9 | I personally would prefer us to be looking at some way of allowing greater scope for debate at section conferences , and where necessary to have decisions on general issues deferred to Congress for ratification or withdrawal . |
| 10 | The new Synod to be elected at some date in the autumn will have the ticklish task of negotiating the issues about ordaining women to the priesthood . |
| 11 | And in the end , the temptation was too great : at some date between 1232 and 1235 , the prior and others conspired to make the document in the name of Archbishop Thomas Becket , which they believed was theirs by right . |
| 12 | The interior of the dormeuse , photographed at some date in the late 19th or early 20th century . |
| 13 | In the case of Geoffrey de Lusignan at least , this enforced vow was speedily fulfilled , since he reached Outremer at some date during the summer of 1188 . |
| 14 | The manuscript suggests that he was born at some date between 1485 and 1492 , and his latest completed work is dated 1546 . |
| 15 | The banking partnership ended at some date in the 1720s , Freame continuing alone , then in partnership with his son Joseph , at what later became 56 Lombard Street . |
| 16 | At some date between 1615 and 1618 , together with his brother , he joined the service of George Villiers ( later first Duke of Buckingham , q.v . ) . |
| 17 | At some date , presumably after the twelfth century , the village moved or was moved westwards and its gridplan suggests this may have been planned . |
| 18 | We will be able shortly to debate those matters more fully in the House , but we have on many occasions made it clear that this Parliament will decide on the single currency issue at some date well into the future if and when it should arise . |
| 19 | In 1944 R. A. Butler , the President of the Board of Education , enacted a new Education Act which gave aid to Church schools in a new compromise and made provision for the raising of the school leaving age to fifteen at the end of the war and to sixteen at some date thereafter . |
| 20 | A king could forbid a bishop to attend a council called by his metropolitan , as happened when Sigibert III ( 632 — c. 656 ) prevented Desiderius of Cahors from going to Bourges at some date between 647 and 653 . |
| 21 | And we do n't become lost at the end of lives , we do n't become lost at some date in history , we are lost now if he has n't found us . |
| 22 | On the other hand , if the bulge is elongated and its long axis is at some angle oblique to the line of sight ( see Fig. 3 ) , perspective effects cause equivalent lines of sight on either side of the centre to have systematically different surface brightnesses . |
| 23 | ‘ Tomorrow I 'm to take a look at some building plots which Paulo considers might be a good buy , ’ Vitor explained , ‘ So I arrived in Carvoeiro an hour ago and checked into my hotel . |
| 24 | It is significant that the Open University in Britain made two films on the use of libraries — one showing the use of the public library and the other , produced for those students who were to attend summer school at some university , on the use of the university library under these conditions . |
| 25 | In 1992 we again achieved record results , even though activity at some Wood Group companies was affected by reduced levels in North Sea exploration . |
| 26 | And yet he had promised Skelton he would look at some land around Loweswater , and announced that he was so taken with the district he had a mind to settle in it — a statement which brought Miss Skelton to a blush-brink of applause . |
| 27 | No doubt out for the evening talking insurance at some scampi supper . |
| 28 | She had once shown me , at some distance from the train in which we were travelling , a high brick wall enclosing the park of a great house : in this wall could clearly be seen a door , and through that door , Grandma told me , she had always passed when going off duty . |
| 29 | Thereafter controversy over the issue subsided until June 1967 , when eviction proceedings were taken against eleven families who had refused accommodation offered to them by the rural district council because it was at some distance from the city . |
| 30 | You can plan the first outing as a short walk down the road and back : the patient walks ahead , while you follow at some distance , in case he gets into difficulties . |