Example sentences of "[prep] least [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a match between the gender of the pronoun and the formal gender of the noun introducing its antecedent facilitates the interpretation of the pronoun , at least under some conditions — as we suspect it will — our hypothesis about the involvement of a superficial representation in the interpretation of deep anaphors will be supported . |
| 2 | But Charles the Bald also had a communications-network of his own : in his kingdom , many Roman roads had survived , with a system of public provision of food and transport at regular staging-posts at least along some routes . |
| 3 | If those other components are themselves of a kind that , for example , influences the Earth 's supply of radiation , then we see that positively minute additions , at least of some kinds of pollutants , could have profound consequences for living things . |
| 4 | " The Meeting having considered many Complaints from Caddelton and the other principle Drovers … from the want of a proper Fank for Cattle near the ferry place of Portaskaig , and Considering also that sixty or Eighty acres at least of some muir land near the Port will be necessary … appoint a Committee to draw up an application to Shawfield , praying he may allot and Inclose a piece of ground . " |
| 5 | That is not to say that there are no theories , at least of some stages of the transition of some types of flow . |
| 6 | Erm I I hope that is at least of some help erm in dealing with a resolution to this problem . |
| 7 | At least with some kind of trance it 's subtle and there 's a whole different atmosphere . |
| 8 | For ‘ prodigies ’ ( ‘ Mr Binyon 's young prodigies ’ ) surely we ought to read ‘ protégés ’ ; and then it becomes possible to wonder whether the jocularity about bulldogs does n't mark a wistful or resentful sense that Binyon and Sturge Moore ( ‘ old Neptune ’ ) might have done more with their respective protégés than merely set them to sniff and snarl at each other 's heels ; to question whether the two senior writers could not have established themselves — at least for some purposes — as masters of ateliers in which the two young hopefuls might have enrolled as apprentices . |
| 9 | Once an imbalance occurs between the number of males waiting to acquire units and the number of units that can be taken over or entered , the system could go into a series of oscillations which would be self-perpetuating , at least for some time . |
| 10 | The Edwardian era of peace , pomp and prosperity ( at least for some ) seemed destined to last forever . |
| 11 | If you do not have double glazing , then think about putting it in , at least for some of your windows . |
| 12 | There must be a return to the death penalty , at least for some categories of murder . . |
| 13 | If , at least for some years afterwards , there was no real war , there was none the less plenty of tension in south-western France . |
| 14 | This means that , at least for some listeners , a commercial will be heard many times — but these listeners will be few . |
| 15 | Part of the reason for this is , again , the way in which women are effectively confined to the home at least for some part of their lives . |
| 16 | However , there is evidence that the east-west flow persists beyond where the atmosphere has been observed , at least for some distance : the stability of the east-west winds would be difficult to understand if only the comparatively small mass of atmosphere above the 1 bar level were involved . |
| 17 | That they wo n't be prosecuted , at least for some minor offences ? |
| 18 | It is assumed , moreover , that street life ( at least for some participants ) is not just a meaningless activity undertaken simply to fulfil a void of time and purpose . |
| 19 | There is too the fact that the original letter or document is charged with an emotion , an urgency , and an immediacy , to which the later printed record can never pretend At least for some — and probably for more than is generally imagined — the original document , letter or journal is the best door into the past . |
| 20 | ‘ Cell death occurs in all animals and all tissues , at least at some stage of development . |
| 21 | Other places may contain only a few species , yet the biomass at least at some seasons can be very high ; and this is true of the Arctic and Antarctic oceans . |
| 22 | Remember that sometimes immoral or unjust laws may be authoritatively binding , at least on some people . |
| 23 | ‘ Because that 's the effect this place has on people — at least on some people . ’ |
| 24 | By making more use of data from the sky , particle physics could well be freed , at least to some extent , from the dark caverns of ever-bigger atom smashers . |
| 25 | The pattern is not arbitrary , but the words we use to describe it are , at least to some extent . |
| 26 | A genuine social consciousness , motivated at least to some degree by idealism for the attainment of an educated democracy was an indispensable factor in a self-sustaining , progressive momentum for the growth of the WEA in rural areas . |
| 27 | Whereas the view of mid-century literature as preromantic was effectively demolished by Northrop Frye there is a danger now of regarding women writers as pilgrims on the way to modern feminism , or at least to some recognizable place in the history of women 's writing . |
| 28 | In particular , associations will also be formed between the context and the US , allowing the former to come to elicit , at least to some degree , the CR evoked by the nominal CS . |
| 29 | In old age , there may be the will to retain independence in this AL but circumstances and the effects of the process of ageing may force an elderly person to be dependent on others , at least to some degree . |
| 30 | At least to some observers — notably the Docklands Consultative Committee ( 1985 ; 1988 ) , a grouping of local political and community interests — these and similar misgivings have proved all too real . |