Example sentences of "[verb] at some [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her beauty had been something which had filled even herself with wonder ; sometimes in the privacy of her own room she would gaze at some part of herself , at a hand , say , or a breast , and the perfection of its shape would fill her with joy , as if it were not a part of herself but some natural object of beauty . |
| 2 | Clearly , the mill was largely rebuilt at some point in the 19th century , the brick-built section tying into the much older stone range . |
| 3 | When Dexter focused back on the conversation , Blanche was laughing at some joke of Eddy Russell 's that the sergeant had missed . |
| 4 | In the embryos of most insects evident rudiments of paired abdominal appendages appear at some stage during development . |
| 5 | for example , to solve any design problem there has at some stage to be a switch from systems thinking to thinking in terms of physical entities because these are the things that can be created , precisely located and manipulated in the real world . |
| 6 | The syntactic component could look at all the word-pairs for each tag ending at some vertex in the graph and discard all but the highest scoring , based on the acoustic scores and the pair-wise probabilities , since , given this parsing method , no later information is relevant to the decision . |
| 7 | Charles felt he must have heard Steen being interviewed at some stage on radio or television , because it was very familiar . |
| 8 | When the train stopped at some town in Kent I got off . |
| 9 | At recent rates about 80 per cent of married women can expect to work at some time in their married lifetime ( Martin and Roberts 1984 ) . |
| 10 | No matter where you finally wind up in the advertising business , you will want to work at some stage in an agency to gain real insight into advertising and acquire first-rate skills ( and , hopefully , reputation ) that puts wheels under your career . |
| 11 | We shall consider at some length below circumstances under which this condition is met even when enforcement through the courts is not available . |
| 12 | They passed , apparently oblivious , intent only on their own business ; but hardly a soul in the village failed to pass at some time during that day , and not one missed a detail of what was there to be seen . |
| 13 | The distinctions between kinds of complex idea are considered at some length in the Essay . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | There are relevant stair er Chairman which you can look out of place at the present moment of time but they will need to be addressed at some point in time in the future and therefore one could be forgiven for wanting to prioritise various but in general terms , the strategy that has been er looked at is the progress of St Albans in general , there may be small elements of it and some of these have already touched upon but in general that is no sound strategy er which over a period of time and in the process of that it will be essential to monitor erm the effect of some of the changes as you go forward to see in fact whether the other elements of strategy that were erm put in to that er work were in fact still necessary and whether they should be have some . |
| 18 | For her it worked because of one other factor — her ability and willingness to engage at some depth with the concepts , ideas and questions evoked by the material . |
| 19 | He said that the post would be advertised , which was duly done at some cost to the public purse . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Factories may be required to be sited at some distance from residential areas in specially designated industrial zones . |
| 22 | Of course no one even hinted at some connection between this school for girls by the railway lines and the great university , but the implication was there . |
| 23 | Indeed , recently a journalist from The Lady had hinted at some connection between the heroine and Lily . |
| 24 | A child was fatally injured at some time between noon and 8.30 pm . |
| 25 | The lectures which he delivered in America on this visit are not of crucial critical significance and , like other addresses of the same period , they are chiefly remarkable for the fact that he felt able to talk at some length about himself and his work — as if he realized that audiences came to see him , rather than hear anything he might care to say . |
| 26 | I personally would prefer us to be looking at some way of allowing greater scope for debate at section conferences , and where necessary to have decisions on general issues deferred to Congress for ratification or withdrawal . |
| 27 | EP : Last time I saw you we felt that we should be looking at some kind of school with weekly boarding . |
| 28 | Will that continue to be the case , or are we looking at some kind of block grant formula here ? |
| 29 | Erm so erm what we 've got then is is the the idea of ah looking at some kind of behavioural analysis , although I 'll got into behavioural analysis in just a few minutes . |
| 30 | ‘ We 're looking at some form of support from below , know what ah mean ? |