Example sentences of "the [noun sg] of at " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had long wanted to visit St Kilda , and the opportunity of at least seeing the islands came when I was invited to join a National Trust cruise as a lecturer and sort of — ‘ general helper ’ . |
| 2 | The commons had shown themselves increasingly adept at procuring political concessions in return for grants of taxes , and although they were at their most effective when they enjoyed the support of at least some sections of the nobility , they had gained substantially in experience and cohesion by the time the crisis of 1340–1 arose . |
| 3 | According to the rules then extant , a national strike could only be called by the NUM if it had the support of at least 55 per cent of the members voting in a secret ballot : the union prided itself on its democracy in this context . |
| 4 | This could not be achieved merely by filling all existing vacancies , however , since the Liberal bloc consisted of 52 out of the 104 seats , and the Liberals could also generally count on the support of at least one independent . |
| 5 | He claimed to have the support of at least one-third of VPN 's deputies in the republican and federal parliaments . |
| 6 | Although Aquino insisted that the plan had the support of at least 15 members of the 23-strong Senate , the Senate President and key opponent of a continued US presence , Jovito Salonga , remained suspicious of the plan , characterizing it as vague and ill-defined and insisting that all combat troops had to be withdrawn within one year . |
| 7 | The immediate problem of the DLP 's lost legislative majority was overcome by March 26 , when negotiations secured the support of at least two of the independents . |
| 8 | It said that the support of at least one side was required before troops could be deployed . |
| 9 | In the May congressional elections [ see p. 38908 ] the PUR had won 12 seats and the Conservative Party ( PCE ) of Vice-President-elect Alberto Dahik had won six , but Durán was expected to negotiate the support of at least two more parties . |
| 10 | There can not be a taxonomy without differentiation into more than one sub-species : the creation of one sub-division presupposes the existence of at least one other . |
| 11 | It presumes the existence of at least two parties , one who allocates responsibility and one who accepts it with the undertaking to report upon the manner in which responsibility has been discharged . |
| 12 | I in particular , bearing in mind the point that er Mr i is making , that er newts seem to be as it were very choosy in where they er go , bearing in mind the existence of at least three other ponds in Skelton , I would like to know whe how er why it is or whether it is that newts are only found in this pond , and whether or not er the the survey has shown anything in either of er in any of the other ponds . |
| 13 | He also knows of the existence of at least half a dozen hypermarkets which have a shoppers ' profile that includes every socioeconomic category , and which sell all three types of bread . |
| 14 | ( 1982 ) report the existence of at least 212 fishless lakes in the Adirondacks , the loss of all fish in 140 Canadian lakes ( and the threatened extinction in 48,000 other lakes ) , damage to 15 per cent of lakes in Minnesota , the threatened extinction of trout in half of West Virginia 's trout streams , the near total depletion of buffering capacity in 3000 lakes in the eastern United States , the acidification of more than 10,000 lakes in Sweden to pH 6 or below ( with 5000 lakes having pH values below 5 ) , and reduced populations of salmon and trout in major rivers in southern Norway . |
| 15 | Detailed studies , mainly by spacecraft , have revealed the existence of at least three types of cloud particle . |
| 16 | It assumes the existence of at least two distinct languages or language varieties . |
| 17 | It was said to drink the milk of at least nine cows daily . |
| 18 | And here I had the advantage of at least twenty years already in the profession . |
| 19 | Kilfedder 's transfers ensured the election of at least one UPNI candidate and contributed towards the election of the second Alliance candidate . |
| 20 | It is more difficult to know whether an animal goes through the experience of at one moment not being able to see a food item , but then being able to see it at the next . |
| 21 | It also called for an overhaul of the LAPD 's disciplinary procedure , more emphasis on community-based policing , and the removal of at least two city police commissioners . |
| 22 | There were 35 attacks on Nov. 12 itself , including the use of smoke bombs and fires to disrupt rail and subway travel , and the firing of at least 10 rockets at the Imperial Palace . |
| 23 | The presence of at least some specialist assistance has been shown to be essential for raising the standards of the whole team . |
| 24 | In whatever form they existed the documents continued to be known , for they were mentioned to Anselm by Osbern in 1093 , and examined in the royal court in 1109 in the presence of at least one bishop who had been present also in 1072 . |
| 25 | Briefly , the diagnosis of ulcerative colitis was based on the presence of at least three of the following four criteria : a typical history of diarrhoea ; stools containing blood and pus , or both , for more than one week or in repeated episodes ; a typical sigmoidoscopic appearance , with granulated friable mucosa or ulcerations , or both ; histological or cytological signs of inflammation ; and radiological or colonoscopic signs of ulcerations with or without spiculation or granulation of the inner surface of the colon proximal to the rectum . |
| 26 | The diagnosis of Crohn 's disease was based on the presence of at least two of the following four criteria : a history of diarrhoea lasting more than three months ; radiological findings of typical stenoses and prestenotic dilatation in the small bowel or segments with a cobblestone appearance in the large bowel ; histological findings of transmural lymphocytic infiltration or occurrence of epithelial granulomas with giant cells of Langhans ' type , or both ; and the occurrence of fistulas or abscesses , or both , in a region of intestinal disease . |
| 27 | By s. 2(6) the memorandum must be signed by each subscriber in the presence of at least one witness . |
| 28 | The extracellular portions are characterised by the presence of at least one , and usually multiple , immunoglobulin-like domains . |
| 29 | When these data were combined and the presence of at least one of the following ( serum HBeAg , serum HBV DNA , liver HBcAg ) taken to indicate viral replication , markers of viral replication were observed preoperatively in 13 of 15 patients . |
| 30 | In summary , our observations are consistent with the presence of at least one exon of the proto-oncogene ERG in the complex PCR probe and suggest also that we have trapped exons from one or more other genes . |