Example sentences of "[adj] at [adv] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One way in which some at least of the problems might be reduced would be if the technology concerned were not promoted and managed by a national agency ( eg the CEGB or electricity board ) but rather by the local authority . |
| 2 | well certainly I believe Mr he , I do n't think he went into the same detail as Mr I , but Mr certainly left me the impression that some at least of the brochures were , went into more than one addition , yes |
| 3 | For a British army encamped on ancient Carthaginian ground , it was perhaps natural to enjoy without too many qualms some at least of the diversions which Livy suggested had got the better of the Carthaginians . |
| 4 | Although the academic study of Roman law took a long time to have practical effect , by the 1170s and 1180s it was occasionally cited authoritatively in some at least of the courts of the south . |
| 5 | But if this food is in short supply and the whole population is in danger of dying out , then cannibalism makes sense : it maximises the food supply and vastly increases the chance that some at least of the tadpoles will survive . |
| 6 | All at once in the ante-rooms of the palace were sources of people who had not been seen or allowed anywhere near the place in recent years . |
| 7 | They included gross and shifting uncertainties about money , great division of counsel in the General Assembly of the Company , fundamental differences of opinion between two at least of the engineers called on to survey the route , James Barnes and Thomas Telford , and , above all , the engineering of a very difficult route . |
| 8 | Such reaction gave birth to two at least of the names applied to architectural styles . |
| 9 | Two at least of the features — consciousness and conspiracy — are difficult to operationalise and rarely demonstrated satisfactorily by empirical means ; direct empirical evidence for common objectives and awareness of group consciousness is not easy to envisage , because of the nature of the referents , and it is not surprising therefore that elite theorists such as Wright Mills have tended to use their sociological imagination to provide a plausible construct of indirect evidential demonstration . |