Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] at some [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ONE allowance which looks almost certain to disappear altogether at some point in the not-too-distant future , judging from its treatment in the Budget , is the married couple 's allowance , or MCA . |
| 2 | However , if one shift performs better ( and ‘ better ’ might refer to the quality or quantity — or both — of product that is made ) is it because it consists of more conscientious workers ; their conditions of working are better , or they have less distraction ; they are supervised more closely and the conveyor belt moves faster ; or their body clock enables them to work better at some times of the day than others ? |
| 3 | Surely at least one would have been caught short at some point during the operation . |
| 4 | After taking a series of measurements I put a numbered ring on each bird 's leg so that if one came to grief and was picked up at some time in the future , its identity could be established . |
| 5 | Drake at rest distinctive with shortish bill , chestnut head , buff crown , grey underparts and white line on wing ; in flight can be picked out at some distance by conspicuous white forewing . |
| 6 | Er right so as I say it 's a lighthearted approach and on christian name terms and with that in mind would you detach one of these and just stick your name on so that at least if you do n't know then at some stage during the course you stand a good chance of getting to know each other because again the essence of this course is informality and talking . |
| 7 | Having looked briefly at some features of particular NBFIs in section 4.1 , we want now to reflect on the extent to which they fulfil some of those functions which we said in section 2.3 a financial system is expected to fulfil . |
| 8 | For all these reasons , there is some mixing , though it occurs more at some times of year ( during the winter storms ) than at others . |
| 9 | A Sergeant with a crudely reconstructed pink blob of a nose — obviously bitten off at some stage in his professional or previous career — sat at a damascened bronze data-desk stained green with cupreous patina . |
| 10 | Let us look now at some problems of this neo-fundamentalism as I have observed them in modern church life . |
| 11 | The strong winds took their toll throughout the day with most competitors finding themselves going overboard at some point during the faces , which came under the control of Bolton Sailing Club officials . |
| 12 | Erm , if it 's paid up you can start paying again at some point in the future , but you have to pay an extra one-off charge , to do it , I think . |
| 13 | The demon coughed nervously ( demons do not breathe ; however , every intelligent being , whether it breathes or not , coughs nervously at some time in its life . |
| 14 | Outside of London , too , generally over the South , the West and the South-east , a decline in real wages set in at some point in the two decades centred on 1760 , as money wages fell behind rising prices . |
| 15 | On the great northern coalfield they did not work underground after 1780 , although to some extent they continued to do so at some pits in Yorkshire , Lancashire and Cumberland . |
| 16 | ‘ I hope we can all meet up at some time in the future , ’ says Tyler , ‘ and have a tap-dance . ’ |
| 17 | Cytomegalovirus infection was found contemporaneously at some site in the body in six individuals ( ampullary biopsy in three , intestinal biopsy in five , and in the retina of one patient ) . |
| 18 | Well , apparently what 's happened there , I do know , because erm , one or two of the people who looked at it got involved , and whereas the property started out at some figure in the high hun hundred and fifty , hundred and eighty thousand , something like that . |
| 19 | But who knows , the illustrious Mr Punch may yet ride again at some time in the future . |
| 20 | He went on at some length about the idiocy of the strategic bombing of Germany and how the Red Army had won the war in Europe . |
| 21 | If speaker D had gone on at some length about ‘ cobbles ’ or rough roads in general , or if the analysis only had part of this fragment , up to C 's it was rather rough , then we might have had no evidence of a divergence in speakers ' topics within the conversation . |
| 22 | Out of this , we can arrive perhaps at some principles of practice which can be seen to be both compatible with normalisation ( in our preferred sense ) and supportive of self-advocacy . |
| 23 | For each day there is a diet sheet , more interesting key facts , and a weight and symptom chart for your to complete as you did for Stage I. It is vital that you keep this chart up to date : you will undoubtedly need to refer back at some point during the next few weeks , so the records are nothing short of vital ! |
| 24 | A corollary of this last point is that the technique is likely to succeed when the signal is switched on at some moment to which the time origin may be ascribed , the inference being that the signal is zero up to time . |
| 25 | If you have not worked regularly at some time since 1978 because you have had to stay at home to care for either a child or a sick or elderly person you may have protected your right to a pension by claiming HRP . |
| 26 | In this context , in a more general sense , a return to a more convergent exchange rate policy within Europe , providing as it does a background of stability to encourage exporters , would be welcomed again at some stage in the future . |
| 27 | The Deputy Head held forth at some length on subjects such as the national curriculum and the iniquities of Bridget Plowden , whoever she might be . |
| 28 | But there are few women and even fewer men who do n't slip up at some point in their lives , in thought if not in deed . |