Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] at some [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Cambridge Group for the Study of Population and Social Structure ( CAMPOP ) have shown that in seventy communities where total lists of inhabitants were made at some point between the late sixteenth and the early nineteenth century the proportion of householders who were widowed was about 1:5 ; at Clayworth ( Notts. ) in 1688 it was higher than 1:4 . |
| 2 | Hill had his critics — he still has — and they were quick to say that he showed an unwillingness to get stuck in , yet all the early season races were led at some point by the quiet man bearing the colours of the London Rowing Club on his helmet , just as his father had . |
| 3 | Roughly a third of the population are estimated to have suffered directly from the bombing : more than a quarter of homes in Germany were damaged in some way ; fourteen million persons lost some property through bombing ; between seventeen and twenty millions were deprived at some time of electricity , gas , or water ; nearly five millions had to evacuate because of ‘ air terror ’ ; 305,000 people were killed . |
| 4 | The flat area to the south was drained at some time in the eighteenth century and a canal was built across it . |
| 5 | The union treaty was considered at some length by the Central Committee plenum in December 1990 ; it approved a resolution calling for the ‘ renewal and preservation of a unitary Soviet Union ’ , a renewal that was ‘ socialist in character ’ . |
| 6 | My right hon. Friend then said : ’ I understand that in this instance Dr. Beer 's request was considered at some length by an assessment panel of six which included the District Chair , Chief Executive and District Director of Public Health . |
| 7 | Further improvement in the sharpness of the cut-off response of practical filters can be achieved by cascading sections and the design of filters comprising multiple identical sections was considered at some length in chapter 9 . |
| 8 | The manuscript suggests that he was born at some date between 1485 and 1492 , and his latest completed work is dated 1546 . |
| 9 | According to Dexter , ‘ much time was spent on a detailed review of the Old Trafford Test and disappointment was expressed at some elements of England 's performance . |
| 10 | Although other burials clustered around the enclosure , the internal area was respected , until the whole monument was dismantled at some time in the fourth century . |
| 11 | There is only one ‘ edition ’ of The Fairy Queen , which was issued first in 1692 — in May , when the show opened ( this is clear from Tonson 's advertisement in The London Gazette ) ; it was re-issued at some time in 1693 , with the modifications already described — a new title-page , a new Act 1 , and two new songs on single-leaf inserts later in the book . |