Example sentences of "[be] [verb] at some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hostile responses ( of the ‘ Master ’ Hobbes and of less original authors ) are examined at some length . |
| 2 | He had a face that was both sensuous and battered — his nose had been broken at some time — with deep pouches under his dark eyes . |
| 3 | If all the etch-resist is completely stripped away in a short period of time , then perhaps the whole board has been exposed at some stage to too much UV light . |
| 4 | He had a good look at it and said part of the pedestal had been mended at some time which took away a lot of the value . |
| 5 | The distinctions between kinds of complex idea are considered at some length in the Essay . |
| 6 | I 'm influenced by street , jazz , and I 've also been looking at some African dancing ’ |
| 7 | THERE is much to do in the garden at present and I have been looking at some of the useful tools and equipment on the market . |
| 8 | Unigram 's Tokyo bureau has been looking at some of the research work being developed by Matsushita Electric Industrial Co at its Tokyo Information and Communications Research Laboratory . |
| 9 | My wife has been looking at some furniture catalogues and tells me we would need about £1000 per chair . |
| 10 | I 've been looking at some of the lines not as lines , but as things he has touched . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been looking at some of those paraffin convector heaters . |
| 12 | SUNDAY LIFE has been looking at some of the Irish people and places which get a mention in the 1993 edition of the Guinness Book of Records . |
| 13 | And are there people in class four at Stronsay school who 's been looking at some of the legends . |
| 14 | I 've been looking at some of the old programmes that some of the fans brought from those shows , and it was interesting to look back and see the people that I travelled with . ’ |
| 15 | Up to this point we have been looking at some fairly clear cases of assimilation across word boundaries . |
| 16 | They are looking at some wire wool that has rusted . |
| 17 | The latter has led to serious distortions in the administration of justice which are argued at some length in Chapters 7 and 9 . |
| 18 | When people publish prescriptive grammar books , or dictionaries which tell you how to spell words or style manuals which tell you how to punctuate , they are either making their own choice between different possible ( in many cases , arbitrary ) rules or conforming to rules which have been selected at some point by others from a range of possibilities and passed down through history . |
| 19 | ‘ We 're looking at some form of support from below , know what ah mean ? |
| 20 | This is the second in our new series of twelve programmes on opportunities in education , in which we 're looking at some of the ideas in action in schools today . |
| 21 | I mean we 've just been to look at some others and upstairs and downstairs . |
| 22 | Similarly , residential care has been preferred at some times more than others , so until the eighteenth century in the Netherlands and Flanders the foster family was seen as the best place for orphans , foundlings , and abandoned children and has long been extensively used to care for needy children in Scotland ( Packman , 1975 ; Pinchbeck and Hewitt , 1973 ; Pyck et al . , |
| 23 | There are several possible approaches to multiplication and division in fixed-point binary , all of which have been used at some time . |
| 24 | But it had clearly been used at some time in the past . |
| 25 | The success of adults with cystic fibrosis in conducting their lives , education , relationships , and employment has been bought at some cost to the family . |
| 26 | At the northern end was a much lower , broader cone , Perboewetan , whose crater wall had been breached at some time in the past by a large lava flow . |
| 27 | Group musical activities for the under-fives are found at some adult education and arts centres . |
| 28 | Computer Library provides CD-ROM network systems and database subscriptions to Australian libraries , and distributes the LIBS 100plus products in Australia ; its sales are running at some $3.3m a year . |
| 29 | I would guess that she has been hurt at some time in the past , probably having banged her head or hip . |
| 30 | But before I try to answer these questions , let me remind you once again that there are vast areas of the globe , where ethnic politics , however embittered , are not nationalist , sometimes because the idea of an ethnically homogeneous population has been abandoned at some time in the past , or never existed — as in the US — or because the programme of setting up separate territorial , ethnic-linguistic states is both irrelevant and impractical . |