Example sentences of "[det] of [pron] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor was it only their tenants who were resentful , but they also had to face envious glances at their lands from the laity , some of whom at any rate seem to have considered them suitable prey . |
| 2 | We will discuss some of them at various points in this book . |
| 3 | The meeting of the Central Committee lasted two long days , during which eighty-eight delegates spoke , some of them at great length . |
| 4 | She would be almost glad when they were gone — some of them at any rate . |
| 5 | The research is based on the assumption that most of the contemporary ideas on this crucial topic date back to the 19th century , and that some of them at any rate are by now dated . |
| 6 | If you talk to people in the street the majority of people who have young children are certainly saying we need day care , we need opportunities for ourselves erm and are quite prepared , some of them at any rate , to go and say that to their local councillors and to write to their M Ps . |
| 7 | The material originated from a widely distributed soil organism and was active against various bacteria , some of which at that time still awaited effective therapy . |
| 8 | But I do n't think we should make too much of it at this stage . |
| 9 | Here , a charge under Schedule E can arise where a manager has acquired shares in respect of which a " chargeable event " occurs while he is the beneficial owner of them and the manager is a director or employee of Newco or Target or an associated company of either of them at some time during the period of seven years ending with the date on which the chargeable event occurs . |
| 10 | Even from her high perch , Ace could n't see all of it at one glance . |
| 11 | The 1990s will call for all of us at all levels to be 30% [ not 20% ] more skilful in our selling , servicing and administration practices . |
| 12 | This is an absolute treasure house for any editor or writer unsure of a common foreign phrase , an abbreviation , or the spelling of a tricky name — which means all of us at one time or another . |
| 13 | The main need , however , is to bring the two sides somehow together , since all of us at one time or another need help from both of them . |
| 14 | Below are a few tips from all of us at RUNNING Magazine to help you as the hours count down . |
| 15 | All of us at this time began to understand what was meant by the scripture : ‘ Zeal for your house consumes me . ’ |
| 16 | CVCP had maintained that ‘ an expansion driven wholly by the recruitment of extra students , many of them at marginal cost , could threaten research ’ , but says that the research funds mean that some universities can ‘ increase their income without recourse to student recruitment alone ’ . |
| 17 | Many of us at that time welcomed the fact that the government was taking stock of public opinion , and was t making the effort to review the , the , the N H S. |
| 18 | No doubt the army has lavish stocks of both ; but no capacity has been retained in Britain to make more of them at short notice . |
| 19 | but I 'd never put any of them at Right Back again , Or buy somebody . |
| 20 | He had an alley mate , the man on the next machine , who pulled the levers for both of them at one end while William 's grandad pulled for them both at the other . |
| 21 | But we could n't eat all the curry it was very , both of us at one time , we could have scoffed the lot ! |
| 22 | Even in the so-called ‘ permissive ’ 1960s , there were no gay switchboards or lesbian lines , and Chad Varah made it part of his mission to encourage self-acceptance in lesbians , most of whom at that time felt ‘ guilty or freakish ’ . |
| 23 | The six sections of that car were allocated to twelve assorted actors and crew , most of them at that point reading , talking or fast asleep . |
| 24 | At the target range in Van Nuys , a lower middle-class white suburb in the Valley , north of Central Los Angeles , I saw a dozen people line up early in the morning to take target practice with hand-guns , shooting at targets shaped like men — most of them at 25 paces : ‘ the most common range for street warfare , ’ as one man there put it . |
| 25 | It could be said that some sort of crisis was going to force itself up in the life of a strongly emotional young man who was so strictly engaged in compartmentalizing his life : a father who was never meant to know about Janie Moore ; Minto herself cut off from college ; almost all his friends kept in darkness about his emotional history , and most of them at this period unaware of his religious interests ; pupils who were discussing with him the things he cared about most — books — but in a fashion which prevented his strength of feeling breaking through . |
| 26 | We 've already reviewed the SoundBlaster Pro — indeed most of us at Practical PC have one in our machines — and know it to be more or less the industry standard for PC sound . |
| 27 | Most of us at any age enjoy a good chat , but in how many Homes do you see small groups of residents talking to each other ? |