Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] least [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in Beijing on March 25th , as he plodded through a three-hour speech at the opening session of China 's annual parliament , the National People 's Congress , some at least of the 3,000 delegates must have felt a twinge of sympathy . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | If this is the case , it implies that some at least of the feedback systems maintaining human wellbeing may be in difficulties simply because they are being called upon to function near the limits of their capacity . |
| 4 | Therapeutic systems which disregard the more subtle aspects of the individual are likely to miss some at least of the precipitating factors in disease causation and are therefore likely to be less effective in treatment . |
| 5 | ( If the change in the production process did have a capital cost then some at least of the cost of that capital would go to pay the wages and salaries of those in the capital goods industry . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Some at least of the Knossos ivory figurines were made in the workshop beside the Royal Road . |
| 8 | It appears that some at least of the variation in the cyanogenesis polymorphism over the field can be explained as local micro-evolution in response to locally patchy selection . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Rather , many contemporaries were impressed by the growing capacity of some at least of the working class to practice self- and mutual-help and they sought ways of encouraging its further development . |
| 11 | It was difficult in the 1880s to ignore the fact that some at least of the working class were becoming increasingly active on various economic and political issues , were less acquiescent than previously and that organizations were being formed to defend and further their interests . |
| 12 | The combination of high unemployment and the unprecedented unwillingness of some at least of the unemployed to accept their fate passively , demonstrated more starkly than before the absence of systematic public provision fur the unemployed . |
| 13 | By 1483 some at least of the royal servants were sufficiently committed to Gloucester to play an active role in his coup . |
| 14 | I have already questioned the absolute relevance of attitude measures , but if they do measure some at least of the effect of advertising , some of the time , the general slowness of movement of these measures implies , at least , that such change occurs gradually as a result of the cumulative build-up of the message of the campaign . |
| 15 | Further , some at least of the influential individuals in a community may operate outside the field of industrial relations : drawing on the work of Blauner ( 1960 ) , Bulmer suggests that the strong occupational communities characteristic of mining settlements occur because the social relations forged in the workplace are carried over into the arenas of non-work activity , creating overlapping primary group affiliations in which |
| 16 | Winchester 's position is , and always has been , that the allegations in the intervention notice were unfounded and that some at least of the factual material on which the allegations were based was inaccurate . |
| 17 | Some at least of the leading Romans felt and behaved in a way which seemed to him perfectly understandable and eminently sensible . |
| 18 | From this tiny house had flowed some at least of the immortal words that the world had come to know as The Pickwick Papers . |
| 19 | By 1483 some at least of the royal servants were sufficiently committed to Gloucester to play an active role in his coup . |
| 20 | Some at least of the History requirements may be delivered through cross-curricular topic work . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 |
| 23 | The first ventral arm plate is small and round , the subsequent plates roughly pentagonal with a convex distal edge which may be produced in the midline ; they are contiguous at least on the proximal arm segments . |
| 24 | Tt er if , if , if you go back to some of the things we were looking at last term er er this idea of commercialization tt er argue that the south was a very different type of country to the north , that it is commercialized at least to a much greater extent |
| 25 | Along the chain of consequence , from atomic decay to my act of observation , things must have got fixed at least by the time that the cat 's experience entered into it . |
| 26 | Mortensen ( 1927 ) first speculated on the possibility that A. iris and A. josephinae were conspecific at least in the Atlantic . |
| 27 | Compaq figures NT will have a tough time on the server , so its server policy will either be in NetWare or SCO , sticking with the latter at least in the short term . |
| 28 | Acts of the old Scottish Parliament were apparently ( although this has been questioned ) subject to the doctrine of desuetude and that Parliament was thus not sovereign at least to the extent that its Acts could lose force otherwise than by repeal by it . |
| 29 | If the public were schooled to discriminate between the germane and the irrelevant , the authentic and the phoney , and the reality and the appearance , nine-tenths at least of the advertising industry would be out of work . |
| 30 | In Britain the other terms referred to by Miller , ‘ society ’ and ‘ culture ’ , have been familiar at least since the 1950s , which saw the early work of Hoggart and Williams and the cultural climate of the New Left , which in turn drew on Scrutiny and the Victorian debates on the Condition of England . |