Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adv] of the " in BNC.

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1 This course would enable 5 Corps to be tactically disposed in the light of new policy , or ( b ) a proportion at least of the numbers should be returned to Italy and concentrated under the same arrangements that are being made for surrendered personnel of Army Group SW .
2 By good fortune , however , another visitor arrived ; it was Willis , who took charge at once of the two girls .
3 The success of this strategy led , despite a more repressive turn from the later part of the 1960s , to the undermining from within of the formal Francoist system of labour regulation .
4 Once at the station , the suspect meets the ‘ custody officer ’ , a person at least of the rank of sergeant and somebody who is unconnected with the case .
5 Like every other ruler of a great State , the empress was the captive of the historical situation in which she found herself , and in her case this forbade any radical change in the social structure of Russia or any far-reaching amelioration from above of the position of the peasant .
6 For a long time , workers on this topic have debated whether defined origins of replication are involved , as they are in bacteria , but only now count Arturo Falaschi ( ICGB , Trieste ) reported that in one area at least of the wild-type human genome replication can be shown to begin in a single defined phase .
7 As indicated in the first chapter , there has evolved during relatively recent times a " traditional " listing of Muftis , the tradition beginning essentially with Mustakimzade and reaching perhaps definitive expression in the widely-used the equally widely-used chronological history by Danismend , and , more recently , Altunsu 's In respect at least of the origins of the institution this tradition has triumphed over another of some antiquity , advanced by Katib Celebi and followed by Hezarfen and the western authors d'Ohsson and Hammer , which names Hizir Bey ( d. 863/1459 ) , the first kadi of Istanbul , as the first Seyhulislam and which differs in several other respects from the now-accepted account of the succession of fifteenth-century Muftis .
8 Company meetings can take a number of linguistic forms : the formal use of international ( or ‘ off-shore ’ ) English at the negotiating table , with informal exchanges in other languages ; meetings in the language of the country ( perhaps with interpretation at least of the whispered type ) or multi-lingual meetings where each participant contributes in his own language .
9 Now at this point I want to sort of take a break from looking at the development of the Communist Party to looking briefly at the peasantry because although the peasantry have been in the background for much of the time , we have n't actually looked in any detail , so far , at the condition of the peasantry in China .
10 The weather forecast for Nottinghamshire all parts will stay dry today and although there 'll still be a good deal of cloud for much of the time some bright or perhaps sunny intervals are possible .
11 All parts will stay dry today and although they 'll still be a good deal of cloud for much of the time some bright or perhaps sunny intervals are possible .
12 By using forward stepwise Cox regression analysis , age at operation , tonsillectomy , and radiographic size of adenoids and airway were not significantly related to the duration of glue ear in either of the surgery or no surgery groups .
13 There are photos in here of the kind that win awards , articles that you would want to read even if you did n't have to take your mind off the fact that you might , you know , at any moment …
14 There 's probably a list in there of the ones you 're supposed to give them to .
15 Turning to the boy , he said firmly , ‘ If you ever again raise your hand to either of the children or your mother , I shall …
16 On legal aid there is not clear recognition amongst the major commercial firms of the need to deploy much of the substantial funding that they provide in large measure for the profession in the defence at once of the legal aid scheme and of legal aid practitioners .
17 Here too Anselm is adopting some part at least of the vocabulary of the new ecclesiastical theorists in describing the situation which Rufus had taken over from his father .
18 As , however , he directed his son-in-law to apply 2s. of the yearly rent to the keeping of an obit for six years , it sounds as though his tenement was larger and that part at least of the assessment represented income from letting .
19 By the 1930s , some part at least of the more advanced views of the previous two decades was beginning to percolate into society as a whole .
20 I suspect that part at least of the explanation lies in the pressures which structures of racism exert on the forms of resistance to it .
21 Part at least of the next ten years was evidently spent in the Newfoundland fishing trade , as he developed a specialist knowledge of the waters round that island .
22 They were right the eel tipped the scales at 2lb 2oz for best of the day !
23 I do n't think that anyone could contemplate a retrospective of Matisse without the involvement at least of the four central institutions which are collaborating on our exhibition : the two Russian museums ; Paris and ourselves .
24 Some action has been taken in most countries to support the survival at least of the more important communities in such areas .
25 Crucial to these observations are satellites , satellites have the ability to make measurements at least of the surface layer of the ocean on a nearly daily basis .
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