Example sentences of "[noun] at [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 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 Some action has been taken in most countries to support the survival at least of the more important communities in such areas .
15 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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