Example sentences of "be at some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although you may be at some bar or club with the community interest at heart , people do n't look at you like that . |
| 2 | IBM is claiming that OS/2 is now what Windows NT will be at some future time , which may be true . |
| 3 | If the parent bird can appear to be at some grave physical disadvantage , the killer will find the tempting proximity of the vulnerable adult irresistible and its concentration on the location of the nest-site can be broken . |
| 4 | They 'll want to spend time looking at equipment they ca n't afford or can only just run to and will be at some stage of agonising over whether to buy or not . |
| 5 | Woodlands , however , can be at some distance , as people will only need to fetch firewood , poles , and so on for tools and fencing , or timber for construction , periodically . |
| 6 | Similarly , extensive pastures can be at some distance , since animals can be walked there and kept there for some time by herdsmen . |
| 7 | If a prisoner disobeys an instruction to place his laundry in a certain basket , he will be at some risk of being found guilty of mutiny under the Bill . |
| 8 | Sandison finds that the probability of citation will be halved by the transfer of library material to the Reserve Stock shelves , which may be at some distance from the main library shelving , or which may have to be fetched from remote stores . |
| 9 | I had not done so before merely because I had not thought of them in this context ; I had supposed that you might prefer to be at some slight remove from the nefarious influences of the department … |
| 10 | The problems that Sterling faced in recovering the aircraft were at some times almost insurmountable . |
| 11 | Against the backdrop of apparent economic stability and increasing affluence the idea that the major industrial nations were at some kind of break-point held considerable appeal . |
| 12 | And to prove his point he cited beside the names of Matisse and two or three other painters who had been Fauves those of Robert Delaunay , Henri Le Fauconnier , Jean Metzinger , André Lhote and Marie Laurencin , all of whom were at some time or another involved in the Cubist movement . |
| 13 | Molla Khayr al-Din ( Hayreddin ) , Hoca to Suleyman , and Molla Ata Allah ( Ataullah ) , Hoca to Selim II , for example , themselves not having students other than the sultan , were at some pains to choose the best available to invest as . |
| 14 | I think from my reflection , they did say they were at some stage in the future , they 've not ruled it out . |
| 15 | The posts may not necessarily be particularly lucrative ( regius professorships are worth £100 a year , religiously paid in quarterly £25 cheques ) , but they are at some of the pinnacles of national life , they open doors and they command respect . |
| 16 | The bibliographical services officer subsequently ensures that more specialized works not ordered by the areas are at some point put into the stock of the authority as a whole . |
| 17 | If you are at some stage asked to undertake tasks with which you are unfamiliar , your starting point should be to ascertain whether you are , impliedly , obliged to do what is wanted . |
| 18 | Most researchers are at some stage forced up against the inadequacy of the social class classification . |
| 19 | We also know that A and B are not in the same place ( or at least are at some distance from one another ) . |
| 20 | Dr Mick Kelly , a co-author of Cities at Risk , said 60 per cent of the world 's population live in low-lying coastal zones that are at some risk from sea-level rises . |
| 21 | But I must say I am at some loss as to why you should be so concerned with these most trivial of errors . ’ |
| 22 | The range of decorative techniques which have been at some time applied to metalwork is a subject for many books , not just a few pages . |
| 23 | It appears to establish three categories : the first contains wordings generally agreed to be acceptable , the second wordings which appear to have been at some time problematic but are now acceptable , and the third wordings which remain inadmissible . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm not sure that we have n't been at some point , ’ says Mr Garner . |
| 25 | It must have been at some time , because I can speak it now . |
| 26 | This very large accession takes up where the first deposit stopped , and covers the years 1861 to 1920 , in addition to some titles and papers of earlier date which must have been at some time extracted from their proper place . |
| 27 | ‘ You have been at some personal pains , ’ said the king in the same quiet voice , ‘ to bring us an eye-witness ’ account , and for that we thank you . |
| 28 | All the paintings were purchased through Christie 's at some point in their early history . |
| 29 | Erm it 's at some venue in Leeds . |
| 30 | ‘ Or more likely he 's at some hotel , waiting to search our luggage before we can proceed . ’ |