Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] at some [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The following extract from the introduction summarises the prevailing situation : Deaf people are fairly certain to encounter deaf discrimination at some time : perhaps in the education they receive , in the career opportunities open to them , or during their day-to-day lives .
2 Indeed , if his ( undated ) grant to the abbey of Fécamp ( S 949 ) is genuine , one might suppose that he visited the Norman coast at some time , and his generosity to a foundation which had been particularly favoured by the ducal family ( in 1001 Richard II invited the celebrated monastic reformer William of Dijon to be its abbot ) seems most likely to mean that his relations with them were still satisfactory .
3 The system contract in Chapter 4 deals with this question at some length , but it is not unusual in standard terms and conditions to find a simple clause which permits the buyer to cancel the order in return for payment of a cancellation fee .
4 To hold a ballot for strike action on this issue at some point in the future dependent on the success of the actions outlined above .
5 Well over half the adolescents in care experience residential placement at some time ( Rowe et al . ,
6 In any case , if any of the pupils are to go on with the language at A level , they will simply have to learn some grammar at some stage .
7 Motorists travelling in this area at some leisure should feel en couraged to make detours and deviations from the minimal itineray here outlined to visit the beautiful hamlets and the large unitary farmsteads that are so characteristic of this area , with its long history — of settled agricultural civilisation .
8 Yet one in every 200 people are diagnosed as having a schizophrenic illness at some point in their lives .
9 Perhaps Bruiser joined the queue knocking at Gwen Evans 's back door at some time .
10 It is to be hoped that all steam enthusiasts will perhaps make an effort to support this railway at some time during the present season to help to ensure that it remains in being into the future .
11 It 's not unusual for blood pressure to go up as a result of stress , so if you have a high reading at some point , your doctor or midwife might suggest you rest and try to relax for a while before they check it again .
12 Mr Kwame Afo , a leader of the Provisional Government of the Republic of New Africa , one of the nationalist groups prominent in the campaign for reparations , estimated the costs to the US Government of proper reparation at some $4.1 trillion — close to a full year of the US gross national product .
13 We looked in some detail at some aspects of protection which included certain kinds of technical and formal performance , the indirect handling of painful subjects and projection , the latter including some aspects of the teacher 's most flexible strategy , teacher-in-role .
14 Again he extricated himself , but this time at some cost to the text .
15 You may see a guy wandering in and out groups and that 's a guy called Geoff who works for the British National Corpus and these are the people who are trying to have or produce ten million words of the written word and a hundred million erm spoken words , which is a corpus whereby , er come and look at the English language at some time in the future and identify and listen to some of your and your dialects and what you said so make sure you have lots of input as we 've got quite a broad spectrum of different dialects today but he 'll be wandering in and out er throughout today .
16 Maybe we will go through the actual ceremony at some point .
17 We have all wished that we 'd had the perfect retort at some time , but most of us can only think of something smart about three days later .
18 It is a subtle difference , but one that is fundamental to the problems posed by advances in information technology which the historian of the future will at some point , sooner or later , have to face .
19 In different forms it could provide marriage market ( 21st birthday party or coming-out-ball ) , gynaecological information service ( women withdrew from male company at some point during the evening ) , a seasonal celebration of community spirit ( harvest home , yuletide ) or a mark of respect to a human life ( funeral , wake ) .
20 With so many fast bowlers now suffering serious injury at some stage in their careers , coaches might be able to make an early identification of potential problems and eradicate them from the action .
21 The most important form of such journeys , in quantitative terms , was probably that to the family summer holiday or ( for the more affluent and overfed ) to the annual cure at some spa .
22 I should think that all of us have had the unfortunate experience at some time or other of sitting on a plastic interlocking chair in a draughty hall listening to some old wind bag droning on endlessly to screens of projected OHP transparencies that no one can clearly see .
23 Ah okay well we 'll car we 'll do a little bit more we 'll find out some more of these words ending in K and when we 've finished off those erm we 'll have a little look at some maths .
24 The mile-deep canyon itself can not have started more than 10 million years ago , so here too there must have been some very rapid erosion at some time .
25 There was one point during my test when I was driving along and erm the I was creeping forward in a stream of traffic and the person in front of me had crossed the solid white line at some traffic lights and the lights changed and it would have been very easy to follow his lights and just carry on
26 Perhaps surprisingly , neither of these is necessary for an industry to be a natural monopoly at some output levels , though the average cost curve must certainly have a falling portion .
27 This would imply that a black hole could be in equilibrium with thermal radiation at some temperature other than zero .
28 Though put beautifully into the mouth of Hannah by the storyteller , it did not have its origins with her , but , to judge from its mention of the king at the end , must have been composed for national celebration at some point during the time of the monarchy .
29 Small tissue blocks of Peyer 's patches and the surrounding mucosa at some distance were excised as soon as possible ( less than two hours ) after collection , and were fixed in cold ethanol ( 96% ) and then embedded in low melting paraffin wax .
30 If you take the present notion of the galaxies and run it back in time , it would seem that they should all have been on top of each other at some moment between ten and twenty thousand million years ago .
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