Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must be likely that in due course a parent company in the UK will be legally responsible for the debts of at least its wholly owned subsidiaries unless , perhaps , it files some sort of public disclaimer . |
| 2 | In addition to causing severe damage , the floods were responsible for the deaths of at least five people . |
| 3 | ‘ But it has been responsible for the deaths of at least three good men and may cause the deaths of others , including our own . ’ |
| 4 | Another photo showed that the aircraft had clipped off the tops of at least two tree before it impacted ( at an estimated 350 kts. ) the 50-deg. upsloping rock-encrusted mountainside . |
| 5 | The Christian Democratic prime minister , Giulio Andreotti , is afraid that his Socialist coalition partners will walk out on him if the referendums look like going ahead this year ; by provoking a general election , the Socialists would automatically put off the referendums for at least 12 months . |
| 6 | In all contempt cases , justice requires the court to take account of the interests of at least three categories of person , namely , ( a ) the contemnor , ( b ) the ‘ victim ’ of the contempt and ( c ) other users of the court for whom the maintenance of the authority of the court is of supreme importance . |
| 7 | It had been , as the headmaster pointed out to Robert , a desperate scramble to get any of the punters in at all . |
| 8 | This means that the Pactus Legis Salicae antedates the Liber Constitutionum of the Burgundians by at least a decade . |
| 9 | The three major steps were first , the nationalizations which followed the Arusha Declaration in 1967 ; second , the takeover by government of the wholesale distribution system ( largely Indian-owned ) in 1971 ; and thirdly , the compulsory villagization programme of 1974–8 , affecting the physical location of the homes of at least 5 million people . |
| 10 | This supports the hypothesis that H pylori colonisation is a dynamic process with an active phase of infection and subsequent elimination of the bacteria in at least a proportion of infected people . |
| 11 | Anti-US sentiment increased in Jordan during early February as news emerged of the deaths of at least eight Jordanian truck drivers killed in Iraq during air attacks on the Baghdad-Ruweishid highway . |
| 12 | It was a community which was lagging behind the lowlands by at least a century . |
| 13 | ‘ I can not make it too abundantly clear that , under no circumstances whatsoever , will I support Mr Baldwin unless I know exactly what his policy is going to be , unless I have complete guarantees that such policy will be carried out if his party achieves office , and unless I am acquainted with the names of at least eight or ten of his most prominent colleagues in the next Ministry . |
| 14 | Violence continued with the deaths of at least 50 people as the security forces stepped up their operations . |
| 15 | A SECOND company has been suspended in connection with investigation by police and regulators into the whereabouts of at least £4½m in client money managed by a London-based financial adviser , Wentworth Investment Services . |
| 16 | There had even been times when he 'd found himself imagining her with no clothes on at all — the way he had once seen Peggy Podmore — and felt the same keen desire well up in him . |
| 17 | Mark thinks Babur looks great with no clothes on at all . |
| 18 | Japan 's four leading brokerages , Nomura , Daiwa , Nikko and Yamaichi , agreed to stop issuing new shares , convertible bonds and warrant bonds for Japanese companies both in Tokyo and in the Euromarkets for at least a month . |
| 19 | The intervention followed several weeks of fighting between rival Indian factions armed with automatic weapons and grenades , which resulted in the deaths of at least two people , the displacement of many of the 9,500 who lived on the reservation , and the infliction of serious material damage . |
| 20 | The eruption , which began on June 9 , severely damaged the nearby Clark and Subic Bay sites , and resulted in the deaths of at least 450 people and the evacuation of a further 500,000 . |
| 21 | So Grice 's point is not that we always adhere to these maxims on a superficial level but rather that , wherever possible , people will interpret what we say as conforming to the maxims on at least some level . |
| 22 | Curiously , perhaps , as linguistics has become increasingly ‘ applied ’ and concerned with social setting , its impact on teacher education has failed to make corresponding advances , Education Departments , as the questionnaire results show , do employ people with linguistic training , and applied linguistics backgrounds are shared by the holders of at least three current Chairs in Education ( two at London , one at Southampton ) . |