Example sentences of "[conj] at [adv] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas the view of mid-century literature as preromantic was effectively demolished by Northrop Frye there is a danger now of regarding women writers as pilgrims on the way to modern feminism , or at least to some recognizable place in the history of women 's writing . |
| 2 | Such units can either be used as measures , relative to some fixed point of interest ( including , crucially , the deictic centre ) , or they can be used calendrically to locate events in " absolute " time relative to some absolute origo , or at least to some part of each natural cycle designated as the beginning of that cycle ( Fillmore , 1975 ) . |
| 3 | One element in Crosland 's policy was clearly the belief that at least to some extent the future of the vocational or professional ‘ infrastructure ’ lay with a sector with an explicit commitment to promoting it . |
| 4 | The ministry of labour suspects that about half of the unemployed have indeed been laid off , but other evidence suggests that at least in some parts of the country the proportion is much lower . |
| 5 | Research ( Fagg , 1980 ) has indicated that at least in some cities , inner-urban areas provide ideal factors of production for newer companies : cheap premises and labour can be obtained , markets are close and niches in production or distribution can be carved out . |
| 6 | There is evidence that at least in some of the cases before us , the tariff period was fixed by a minister of state or a Parliamentary under-secretary of state . |
| 7 | But the relevant changes are further defined by being unintended and at least to some extent beyond the control of the societies they affected , either because of their intrinsic character , or because of the scale on which they occurred . |
| 8 | The Politburo , meeting on 17 December , welcomed the agreement as ‘ historic ’ ; and Soviet public opinion , according at least to some rapidly-conducted opinion polls , appeared to take the same view . |