Example sentences of "and [prep] some quarters " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the schools there was concerned doubt about what to do for best , whether to integrate or segregate , and in some quarters the hesitant activity seemed to be salvation through Art and Crafts . |
| 2 | The air was full of the smell of burning documents , and in some quarters there was talk that the Germans would be on the Nile within a matter of days . |
| 3 | The polemical and ideological edge to this debate must be borne in mind : not all those engaged in it were in favour of increased public spending , due to fears about its effects on investment and on incentives ; and in some quarters it was passionately felt that the ageing of society was socially , economically , and even politically undesirable ( Thane forthcoming ) , and hence that its dangers should be emphasized . |
| 4 | But the imperative was common at that time , for some years beyond and in some quarters still today . |
| 5 | The briefs and opinions in the case were immediately circulated by the Permanent Bureau of the Hague Conference to the experts who were shortly to attend a Special Commission of the Conference to review the workings of the Convention , and this gave the case a prominence ( and in some quarters a notoriety ) which it might otherwise have escaped . |
| 6 | Shortly before Christmas and in the middle of correcting the proofs , he wrote to Rohde again : " The whole last part , which you do not know , will certainly astonish you ; I have been very daring , and I can cry out to myself in an altogether enormous sense , animam salvavi [ I have saved my soul ] ; for which reason I think of the book with great satisfaction and am not worried for it turns out to cause the greatest possible offence and in some quarters a " cry of outrage " greets its publication . |
| 7 | This is generally held to be wildly optimistic , and in some quarters , an impossible timescale . |