Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [vb pp] at some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The flat area to the south was drained at some time in the eighteenth century and a canal was built across it . |
| 4 | The Polytechnic Chaplaincy was discussed at some length . |
| 5 | You are , however of course , aware that this background to insetting was discussed at some length yesterday , in the context of another village . |
| 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 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | The corporation claimed that coal was produced at some stage yesterday at 12 of its 50 pits and that NUM members reported for work at one pit in the north-east and one colliery in the Yorkshire coalfield . |
| 9 | The issue of additionality was discussed at some length because of the light it might throw on whether there was more to Making Belfast Work than hype . |
| 10 | There is evidence to support the theory that the whole system was disrupted at some point , either by the passage of a comet or else by an encounter with an interstellar storm . |
| 11 | Looting and arson were widespread , and the damage was estimated at some £10 million . |