Example sentences of "at [adv] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sum was arrived at only after some haggling , Newcastle at first offering £400 and Northampton asking £ 1,000 . |
| 2 | Nijkamp of the Netherlands spent the previous night in a Paris hospital as his wife gave birth to their first child , got back at 5am for some sleep and went on to paddle to last place . |
| 3 | If a match between the gender of the pronoun and the formal gender of the noun introducing its antecedent facilitates the interpretation of the pronoun , at least under some conditions — as we suspect it will — our hypothesis about the involvement of a superficial representation in the interpretation of deep anaphors will be supported . |
| 4 | But Charles the Bald also had a communications-network of his own : in his kingdom , many Roman roads had survived , with a system of public provision of food and transport at regular staging-posts at least along some routes . |
| 5 | If those other components are themselves of a kind that , for example , influences the Earth 's supply of radiation , then we see that positively minute additions , at least of some kinds of pollutants , could have profound consequences for living things . |
| 6 | " The Meeting having considered many Complaints from Caddelton and the other principle Drovers … from the want of a proper Fank for Cattle near the ferry place of Portaskaig , and Considering also that sixty or Eighty acres at least of some muir land near the Port will be necessary … appoint a Committee to draw up an application to Shawfield , praying he may allot and Inclose a piece of ground . " |
| 7 | That is not to say that there are no theories , at least of some stages of the transition of some types of flow . |
| 8 | Erm I I hope that is at least of some help erm in dealing with a resolution to this problem . |
| 9 | At least with some kind of trance it 's subtle and there 's a whole different atmosphere . |
| 10 | For ‘ prodigies ’ ( ‘ Mr Binyon 's young prodigies ’ ) surely we ought to read ‘ protégés ’ ; and then it becomes possible to wonder whether the jocularity about bulldogs does n't mark a wistful or resentful sense that Binyon and Sturge Moore ( ‘ old Neptune ’ ) might have done more with their respective protégés than merely set them to sniff and snarl at each other 's heels ; to question whether the two senior writers could not have established themselves — at least for some purposes — as masters of ateliers in which the two young hopefuls might have enrolled as apprentices . |
| 11 | Once an imbalance occurs between the number of males waiting to acquire units and the number of units that can be taken over or entered , the system could go into a series of oscillations which would be self-perpetuating , at least for some time . |
| 12 | The Edwardian era of peace , pomp and prosperity ( at least for some ) seemed destined to last forever . |
| 13 | If you do not have double glazing , then think about putting it in , at least for some of your windows . |
| 14 | There must be a return to the death penalty , at least for some categories of murder . . |
| 15 | If , at least for some years afterwards , there was no real war , there was none the less plenty of tension in south-western France . |
| 16 | This means that , at least for some listeners , a commercial will be heard many times — but these listeners will be few . |
| 17 | Part of the reason for this is , again , the way in which women are effectively confined to the home at least for some part of their lives . |
| 18 | However , there is evidence that the east-west flow persists beyond where the atmosphere has been observed , at least for some distance : the stability of the east-west winds would be difficult to understand if only the comparatively small mass of atmosphere above the 1 bar level were involved . |
| 19 | That they wo n't be prosecuted , at least for some minor offences ? |
| 20 | It is assumed , moreover , that street life ( at least for some participants ) is not just a meaningless activity undertaken simply to fulfil a void of time and purpose . |
| 21 | There is too the fact that the original letter or document is charged with an emotion , an urgency , and an immediacy , to which the later printed record can never pretend At least for some — and probably for more than is generally imagined — the original document , letter or journal is the best door into the past . |
| 22 | ‘ Cell death occurs in all animals and all tissues , at least at some stage of development . |
| 23 | Other places may contain only a few species , yet the biomass at least at some seasons can be very high ; and this is true of the Arctic and Antarctic oceans . |
| 24 | Remember that sometimes immoral or unjust laws may be authoritatively binding , at least on some people . |
| 25 | ‘ Because that 's the effect this place has on people — at least on some people . ’ |
| 26 | By making more use of data from the sky , particle physics could well be freed , at least to some extent , from the dark caverns of ever-bigger atom smashers . |
| 27 | The pattern is not arbitrary , but the words we use to describe it are , at least to some extent . |
| 28 | A genuine social consciousness , motivated at least to some degree by idealism for the attainment of an educated democracy was an indispensable factor in a self-sustaining , progressive momentum for the growth of the WEA in rural areas . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In particular , associations will also be formed between the context and the US , allowing the former to come to elicit , at least to some degree , the CR evoked by the nominal CS . |