Example sentences of "of [prep] least [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Ministry of Agriculture collaborated on the dog study and circulars have gone out urging villages to fence in their garbage dumps to deprive the animals of at least that source of food , but there is no wave of popular enthusiasm for slaughtering dogs wholesale . |
| 2 | There is often considerable contrapuntal interest , although not always : some of the arrangements degenerate into a languid succession of chords that do little to retain the interest of at least this listener . |
| 3 | We thought that a risk ratio of at least this size would be required for age to drive clinical decision-making . |
| 4 | This suspicion had two causes : he felt that many of the anthropologists underrated the significance of thought , and secondly he suspected the political motives of at least some of them . |
| 5 | Their directives pre-empt the force of at least some of the reasons which otherwise should have guided the actions of those people . |
| 6 | The presence of at least some specialist assistance has been shown to be essential for raising the standards of the whole team . |
| 7 | Broadly speaking , there is dependence in the early stages of the lifespan ; independence during adulthood ; and the likelihood of at least some degree of dependence again in old age . |
| 8 | The opportunities provided in the clinical area for teaching on a one to one or small group basis should enable the teacher to be aware of at least some of these differences in her students , and to make some provision for them in her teaching . |
| 9 | It is the belief of at least some hypnotherapists that the inability of some patients to be hypnotized is due to their subconscious fear that they will be unable to cope with what may come up and that they might go to pieces . |
| 10 | However homoeopathy is very successful in veterinary practice and it is theoretically possible that suitable animal tests could be devised for the study of at least some homoeopathic remedies . |
| 11 | Finally the lawyers for the families went to court again to try to obtain sight of at least some of the evidence against their clients . |
| 12 | Britain DOES expect the UN to take up its offer of at least some troops . |
| 13 | Improved recognition rates can be achieved , the process is no slower , and has obvious leanings to parallelisation of at least some stages of the recognition process . |
| 14 | The motivation to achieve at school in the face of what are the deflecting influences of at least some school teachers in some cases takes the form of a challenge . |
| 15 | If the quotation used by the qualitative sociologist is not too far from the heightened dialogue of the literary artist , it follows that , with only a little licence , one may use the work of at least some novelists much as one might use that of fellow ethnographers . |
| 16 | It is necessary also to enlarge our understanding of developmental mechanisms , and there is growing interest in the widespread occurrence of at least some regulatory genes in disparate phyla . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Among the Apterygota the retention of at least some abdominal appendages is a general feature . |
| 19 | Existing users of at least some footcare products , especially competitive brands . |
| 20 | British empiricism , and to a lesser extent German idealism , must have entered the bloodstream of at least some subjects . |
| 21 | The Athenian attempt was a fiasco , 10,000 colonists were killed and Athens turned to Egypt and Sicily where she was sure of at least some local support . |
| 22 | However , we were not able to know the outcome of those that had been tried ( which probably had a high proportion of not guilty pleas , this being the likely explanation for the delayed return of at least some of the files ) , so our data were , to this extent , incomplete . |
| 23 | They associated it particularly with fertility , and modern research is revealing that the moon does influence the reproductive cycles of at least some creatures . |
| 24 | Our case studies [ see Chapters 5–7 ] , which make reference to the environment in which users of temporary labour are operating , give some indication of the importance of alternative employment opportunities ( or the lack of them ) in explaining the labour market behaviour of at least some temporary workers . |
| 25 | Now the purpose of relying on a rights- based argument is frequently to claim an entitlement to act irrespective of the consequences for others , and so if the idea of rights is to be coherent we must accept that a freedom to act in the face of at least some adverse social outcomes is entailed . |
| 26 | They should , as a result , be able to predict the probability of occurrence of at least some future events , and their consequences . |
| 27 | A letter dated Halifax 24 July 1784 , from James Edwards to Richard Bull , suggests that the artist of at least some of the vellum bindings was Thomas Edwards ( 1762–1834 ) . |
| 28 | Likewise , the presidents of at least some of the successor republics can not rely on firm support from their assemblies on all issues . |
| 29 | By such means it is possible , within the Lancashire Coal Measures for example , to demonstrate that very rapid sedimentation alternated with very slow sedimentation and that the former was responsible for the bulk of at least some parts of the record . |
| 30 | Belinda blurted dismissively , disturbed to find that Tom had been aware of at least some of Greg 's attentions to her that evening . |