Example sentences of "[that] at some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gandhi indeed could count on the British conscience for his personal safety , but he could never count on it for political concessions — and it is clear that at some level he understood this . |
| 2 | She realised that at some level she had always known this , since otherwise she could not have recovered so quickly . |
| 3 | She regretted that she had had to make this incoherent and disingenuous speech , partly because , as she went on , she had begun to listen to what she was saying and had realized that at some level her apprehensions about her family were justified . |
| 4 | We need to recognize that at some level , the processes of computer-aided historical research which involve the application of expert or subject-specific knowledge — are explicable in generic terms that can be made accessible to non-specialists . |
| 5 | Like the other planets it travels around the Sun in an ellipse , which means that at some times it is closer to the Sun than at others . |
| 6 | Earlier we were discussing the fact that at some stages of life we are , unconsciously at least , expecting the imminent demise of someone we love , as in the case of a very elderly parent . |
| 7 | Certainly , no-one devising a system of government for a late twentieth-century industrial democracy would give the right to alter legislation to a group of people whose only qualification is the fact that at some time in the dim and distant past a grateful monarch rewarded the loyalty , bravery , intrigue , obsequiousness or blackmail of an ancestor with the grant of a title and the profits of plunder . |
| 8 | For example , let it be assumed that at some time an individual has become entitled to the ownership of some goods , by virtue of an approved process designated ‘ good — . |
| 9 | What 's the point of loading the reel with an unbranded twist that ‘ looked right ’ , when you can be sure that at some time or other the varying tensions on this material are going to produce lively snarls and inevitably weaken it , so that a line break happens just when you least want it . |
| 10 | The reader who has survived so far may recall that during my wartime service in the Navy I had nursed a great curiosity about the enemy we rarely saw , and that I had promised myself that at some time in the future I would find out more about them , the ships they had fought in and the sort of people they were . |
| 11 | Now , although the idea that whenever we see that someone is in pain we make an inference from behaviour to feeling is about as mythical as the idea that at some time in the past we made a Social Contract , the ‘ argument from analogy ’ line of reasoning seems much less implausible here than in the ‘ Afternoon on the Sun ’ case . |
| 12 | All of the Friedmann solutions have the feature that at some time in the past ( between ten and twenty thousand million years ago ) the distance between neighboring galaxies must have been zero . |
| 13 | In Friedmann 's models , the galaxies are all moving directly away from each other-so it is not surprising that at some time in the past they were all at the same place . |
| 14 | McAllister did not quite know how to answer him , and said slowly , ‘ I suppose that at some time or other we all sell ourselves for something . ’ |
| 15 | It seems from the work of earlier historians that at some time around 1200 the influence of the great magnates underwent a challenge : in part this was because the king was intruding more and more into what had been the magnates ' private preserve , the distribution of justice to their feudal tenants ; in part also because rising inflation damaged their incomes ; and because the individual ambitions of certain of the men who had been the tenants of their knights ' fees led them to seek their advancement outside their natural lords ' followings . |
| 16 | On March 3 King Hassan announced that at some time prior to the legislative elections which were scheduled for Oct. 9 , 1992 , constitutional changes to establish a better balance between legislative and executive bodies would be put to a referendum . |
| 17 | Er , Professor is right erm there may always be a possibility that at some time er you have to you have to recognise that there may be excess capacity in the system and I I do n't believe that the Labour party is not prepared to recognise that there may well be excess capacity in the system at some time . |
| 18 | There was a rose garden to wander around , though as yet no sign of blossom but an indication from the many rose bushes that at some time there would be a most beautiful display . |
| 19 | Gary Chapman says that at some tracks they can hit 120 miles an hour … as far as cost goes you can spend fifty thousand … or just five hundred … |
| 20 | If he was in a procession the other members of the procession still worried about his inability to walk a straight line and feared that at some point he would peel off from the file . |
| 21 | I guessed , as everyone else must have done , that at some point she could not manage her life any longer and had gone out and stepped into the stream as a way of escape . |
| 22 | The reason it is now unacceptable to say it is that at some point in recent history , rock-climbers held a secret annual general meeting and decided to keep the word to themselves . |
| 23 | But as I became more acquainted with this set and stopped rushing from impossible passage to impossible passage , hoping against hope that at some point he would lose his balance and tumble like a second-rate trapeze artist off his swing , I was unwittingly dragged in to a more sinister , melancholic side to his playing . |
| 24 | But , from a study of the pattern of his previous lives , it would seem that at some point — whether as Martin or at some time in the future — he will have to accept the role of teacher , guide or helper . |
| 25 | If you plan to stay where you are , the likelihood is that at some point you will want to make some changes or improvements : install central heating , insulate the loft , modernise the kitchen or perhaps convert part of the house to a granny flat for an elderly parent who is becoming too frail to live alone . |
| 26 | The government hopes that at some point the Liberation Front can be persuaded to accept some form of autonomy short of independence , but that seems unlikely in the foreseeable future . |
| 27 | It seems clear that at some point during this period Wilson determined to precipitate a showdown with the shipowners . |
| 28 | In fact I happened just to have spent the weekend with a dear friend and was well aware that at some point over the two days she had entertained everyone suspected of being concerned , and not a word of politics was discussed , nor a syllable about supplanting anybody . |
| 29 | It means that at some point in a viewing activity the learner can be asked to focus on the visual channel only . |
| 30 | I see , simply , that at some point I became pathologically compliant . |