Example sentences of "some [noun sg] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This proposal is meeting some resistance at the UN 's headquarters in New York . |
| 2 | There was some hope at the time of the Maastricht negotiations that the centralising tendencies of the European Community would be checked by the ‘ principle of subsidiarity ’ . |
| 3 | Hoti Lal Parishar , the veteran chairman of the local Congress ( I ) committee , admits to some bemusement at the complications caused by Vishwendra Singh 's challenge to the sitting MP . |
| 4 | Lowering his eyes , he stared in some bemusement at the men 's over-large dungarees she was wearing . |
| 5 | I had some sympathy at the time , but not anymore . |
| 6 | well if you think you might get some money at the end of the season , he said , you may find that you 'll be paying them at the end of the season ! |
| 7 | Then she hurled some money at the stallkeeper , grabbed loaves and other food , and jumped on the moving train . |
| 8 | After some experience at the fluid level the design tends to fall into a pattern of application areas and sales volume begins to increase . |
| 9 | After some experience at the fluid level the design tends to fall into a pattern of application areas and sales volume begins to increase . |
| 10 | They will see the demonstration through , and probably make some excuse at the end to delay the purchase decision . |
| 11 | There is some confusion at the moment over the common name , as there are two varieties that possess the rich orange seam along the dorsal fin and tail . |
| 12 | Erm , to get some feedback at the end of those . |
| 13 | The British contingent was relatively small , and there was also some disappointment at the number of US participants . |
| 14 | He made a telephone call in the village , then bought some toothpaste at the shop . |
| 15 | However , we should not lose sight of the fact that there is some light at the end of the runnel . |
| 16 | For Sarita there is some light at the end of the tunnel , but other Asian girls continue to suffer in darkness . |
| 17 | So things are moving better for us which I am sure has provided some light at the end of the tunnel . |
| 18 | While advocating the Work Society , Handy is enough of a realist to suggest that the most likely outcome , if his assumption turns out to be correct , is some kind of muddled compromise between all four possibilities , with considerable unemployment , some measure of a divide between the haves in work and the ‘ leisured ’ have-lesses without jobs , some attempt at the maintenance of full employment as a policy goal , and an increase in the amount of ‘ work ’ done on a ‘ voluntary ’ basis . |
| 19 | Leave some slack at the point where the cable enters slack at the point where the cable enters the floor or ceiling void , to allow it to be bedded in a recessed chase cut into the plaster at some future date . |
| 20 | There was some scepticism at the Publishers Association about the likely extent of the breach . |
| 21 | Internal squabbles will never divide this nation like it has others because America has a constitution that will ultimately hold it together , despite some stretching at the seams . |
| 22 | One afternoon a week , I went to do some work at the Child Guidance Clinic , and Mavis looked after Shanti on these days . |
| 23 | After hearing defence submissions that the £600,000 payout to Mrs Sutcliffe was ‘ perverse and excessive ’ , Lord Donaldson said : ‘ It may be that the general jury approach to newspaper libel at the moment is tempered by some indignation at the way some branches of the Press are run — coupled with the feeling that , if you can get £1m on the pools , why should n't you get £1m on the newspapers too ? |
| 24 | On the bad side , the lack of a notch filter is unfortunate and there are a number of faults — the ‘ clip ’ indicators , the noisy switch and the badly imbalanced outputs — which indicate the need for some re-thinking at the factory . |
| 25 | Such occurrences caused some anxiety at the time , but were accepted by members as part of their responsibility . |
| 26 | In the same country there is some regret at the abandonment of Latin masses , psalmody and Evensong . |
| 27 | The intellectual input at the indexing stage is minimal even in systems where , in the interests of enhanced consistency , there is some intervention at the indexing stage . |
| 28 | Peeping over the low parapet , I saw men in overalls building a platform or stage of some sort at the foot of the choir-screen steps . |
| 29 | At the bottom of the scale would be a copy autographed by the author in some bookshop at the outset of a publicity campaign . |
| 30 | The events of the last part of his life remain obscure , but his will ( drawn up on 8 March 1482 , proved 1 April 1482 ) implies that he held some post at the court of Edward IV . |