Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [adv] [num] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The concept of political freedom , which is now so frequently bandied around by the coiners of political slogans , was , so far as we know , first developed in Athens in the fourth century BC where at least two-thirds of the population had the status of chattel slaves . |
| 2 | And at 6.15 Miss Danziger entered the drawing-room , where at least eighteen of the guests were gathered drinking tea and eating from a selection of Danish pastries and pies , and talking with unusual excitement . |
| 3 | This will apply where at least two of the firms earn £170million or more of that turnover in the EC but do not earn more than two-thirds of their total turnover in a single EC country . |
| 4 | Active Crohn 's disease was defined as at least one of the following : abdominal pain causing severe limitation of activity , diarrhoea ( at least 3 loose stools/day ) , weight loss of more than 2 kg in the past month , or at least two of the following laboratory abnormalities : haemoglobin <12.5 g/dl in men ( <10.5 g/dl in women ) , erythrocyte sedimentation rate >20 mm/h , serum albumin <35 g/l . |
| 5 | Mike Fesemeyer , a former colleague who now analyses bank shares for Nomura , says : ‘ Even in the 1970s he was perceived as a future chief executive or at least one of the bank 's fast track graduates . |
| 6 | Of this lot I feel McCallen can just about win the race — or at least one of the Superbike classes — but Fogarty is obviously the man everyone has to beat and I feel he will not go away empty-handed . |
| 7 | Looking back you can see the riverside erm and basically just er here was the railway , and the entrance to the goods yard , er coal offices etcetera , or at least one of the entrances , was on that side . |
| 8 | It has been suggested that after AD 700 until the eleventh century , 60 per cent of ivory was derived from walrus ( Beckwith 1972 ) . |
| 9 | An interesting finding in the light of my previous discussion about the efficacy of the identification and diagnosis of abuse was that in only two of the 25 families selected for follow-up was abuse admitted . |
| 10 | The civilian operators , notably the CEGB , have consistently tried to deny this , although at least one of the first Magnox reactors , Hinkley Point A , had been deliberately adapted so that ‘ weapons grade ’ plutonium could be extracted . |
| 11 | It was wholly predictable , then , that at about 8.50 on the morning of Monday , March 17 , I was lying face down in the grammar school dirt with 30 jeering first formers on my back . |
| 12 | They were able to show that at least one of the reasons for their failure was the immigration of insects from surrounding , untreated areas . |
| 13 | Whilst the famous photographs of the Cottingley fairies , taken in 1917 , have been admitted not to be genuine , it is equally clear from the researches of author Joe Cooper that at least one of the girls concerned , Frances Griffiths , did see fairies in Cottingley Glen , as did Geoffrey Hodson . |
| 14 | If you have chosen a flower that is very dark and striking , make sure that at least one of the other flowers has the same colour value . |
| 15 | The paper claimed Johnson had been tested three times in six days in mid-January , and that at least one of the tests was positive for abnormally high testosterone levels . |
| 16 | It is our contention that at least one of the functions of legal and political theory should be to assist in structuring a wealth of material as a means of revealing general principles behind the abundance of individual facts . |
| 17 | The Pasalar hominoids have been assigned in the past to Sivapithecus , but new material shows that at least one of the species lacks the derived subnasal morphology of that genus . |
| 18 | So do make sure that at least one of the contacts listed at the foot of the release is around to answer questions . |
| 19 | Now if the prediction that follows from this maze of premises turns out to be false ( in our example , if the planet does not appear at the predicted location ) , then all that the logic of the situation permits us to conclude is that at least one of the premises must be false . |
| 20 | She found that they vary independently of each other which suggests that at least one of the inversions is on one of the 8 metacentric pairs not involved in the numerical variability ( C. R. Bantock , personal communication ) . |
| 21 | We know that at least one of the companies that is to be sold off a large company covering a substantial geographical area of Scotland — has two initiatives going ahead . |
| 22 | In order to qualify for alternative permitted hours , the club must fulfil the following conditions ( subss. ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) ) , viz. : ( a ) that the club premises are adapted and used by members and their guests for carrying on athletic sports or games ; ( b ) that at least one of the sports or games is carried on out of doors , and in daylight ( unless artificial light is used ) ; ( c ) that the premises are regularly used during winter and the hours of daylight for a sport specified in ( b ) ; ( a ) that the usual permitted hours are not suitable for the time at which the game or sport is usually played by members and their guests for the supply of liquor to those participating in the game . |
| 23 | We have no way of measuring the immediate impact of this writing on Jewish readers because we have no document we can safely date about 300 B.C. But if it is true that Kohelet , Ecclesiastes , wrote in the early third century B.C. , one must acknowledge that at least one of the Jewish sages was not prepared to play the part the Greeks had assigned to him . |
| 24 | Will my right hon. Friend assure the House that at least one of the lessons that we learnt in the Gulf war will be put into effect so that , should a similar international crisis occur again , more than one in five of those support vessels will fly the red ensign , as was the case in the Gulf war ? |
| 25 | It is not so difficult , in these circumstances , to accept that at least one of the pilgrim-tellers should be represented as speaking through an incongruously feigned mouthpiece , in this case strengthening the antifeminist line of the tale by purporting to speak as a woman . |
| 26 | i just hope that at least one of the ‘ british ’ teams qualify — but usa94 might take place without all of you guys … but maybe frank will be seen on a telly nearby … |
| 27 | The party newspaper Nhan Dan reports that at least two-thirds of the next 124-strong Central Committee , to be elected at the end of the congress , will be under 60 . |
| 28 | The South African National Maize Producers ' Organization said that at least three-quarters of the harvest had been destroyed and expected that up to 3,500,000 tonnes would have to be imported . |
| 29 | I anticipate that at least two of the EFTA countries will place their applications before the Community shortly and that it will be possible to begin examining them in early 1993 . |
| 30 | Er that is that at least three of the articles are talking to quoting different organisations er suggested that the playhouse theatre trust had been recommended to do something about their marketing er a at least two years ago if not longer ago erm certainly it 's my knowledge er they have not employed specialists to that they have not employed a specialist to that indeed since the last er appointed publicity officer left , that person that post has not been er refilled er could I ask the theatre trust why they have chosen not taken that recommendation seriously ? |