Example sentences of "be [vb pp] at some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hostile responses ( of the ‘ Master ’ Hobbes and of less original authors ) are examined at some length . |
| 2 | He had a face that was both sensuous and battered — his nose had been broken at some time — with deep pouches under his dark eyes . |
| 3 | If all the etch-resist is completely stripped away in a short period of time , then perhaps the whole board has been exposed at some stage to too much UV light . |
| 4 | He had a good look at it and said part of the pedestal had been mended at some time which took away a lot of the value . |
| 5 | The distinctions between kinds of complex idea are considered at some length in the Essay . |
| 6 | The latter has led to serious distortions in the administration of justice which are argued at some length in Chapters 7 and 9 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Similarly , residential care has been preferred at some times more than others , so until the eighteenth century in the Netherlands and Flanders the foster family was seen as the best place for orphans , foundlings , and abandoned children and has long been extensively used to care for needy children in Scotland ( Packman , 1975 ; Pinchbeck and Hewitt , 1973 ; Pyck et al . , |
| 9 | There are several possible approaches to multiplication and division in fixed-point binary , all of which have been used at some time . |
| 10 | But it had clearly been used at some time in the past . |
| 11 | The success of adults with cystic fibrosis in conducting their lives , education , relationships , and employment has been bought at some cost to the family . |
| 12 | At the northern end was a much lower , broader cone , Perboewetan , whose crater wall had been breached at some time in the past by a large lava flow . |
| 13 | Group musical activities for the under-fives are found at some adult education and arts centres . |
| 14 | I would guess that she has been hurt at some time in the past , probably having banged her head or hip . |
| 15 | But before I try to answer these questions , let me remind you once again that there are vast areas of the globe , where ethnic politics , however embittered , are not nationalist , sometimes because the idea of an ethnically homogeneous population has been abandoned at some time in the past , or never existed — as in the US — or because the programme of setting up separate territorial , ethnic-linguistic states is both irrelevant and impractical . |
| 16 | The Conservative Election victory in 1970 had removed , for the time being at least , the prospect of the School 's being compelled to join the Independent sector , and allowed thought to be given at some length as to what Independence might entail . |
| 17 | Indeed , this version of English was now beginning to be justified at some provincial universities on grounds of the kind proposed by Reid . |
| 18 | However , in group care situations , particularly in special units , individuals may be placed at some risk when left among people who also have severe problem behaviour . |
| 19 | Although marriage is likely to be prescribed at some stage of life as a remedy for all kinds of life problems , the images people have of marriage will be different . |
| 20 | Such a course is often open to the construction that nuclear weapons may be developed at some later stage , as at least a secondary objective . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Cashline machines will also be installed at some JET service stations if talks with another oil company — Conoco — are successful . |
| 23 | INFRA-RED remote control receivers are to be installed at some of Darlington 's top attractions in a bid to encourage disabled users . |
| 24 | At least one strong appeal inherent in Christ 's teaching lay in its promise of a life of happiness to be enjoyed at some future date . |
| 25 | All that can sensibly be said is that , given everything capitalism had gone through over the previous few years , a collapse of confidence was to be expected at some point . |
| 26 | This is not all ; for if any unwanted change in the output occurs and this change can be fed back to modify the duty cycle ratio in the proper sense , the output can be stabilized at some desired value , any deviation from that value being automatically corrected . |
| 27 | Factories may be required to be sited at some distance from residential areas in specially designated industrial zones . |
| 28 | I suggest that an attempt may well be made at some future Labour Party conference to dislodge a Labour Prime Minister . |
| 29 | The rule 's important , but it should come from a need of the child rather than be imposed at some arbitrary time when the teacher thinks that all the children are ready for that rule . |
| 30 | Of equal importance is the ability to understand what can be seen at some historical sites where there is little attempt at historical reconstruction to assist understanding — perhaps a burial mound in the middle of a field or a ruined castle . |