Example sentences of "[prep] at [adv] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They associated it particularly with fertility , and modern research is revealing that the moon does influence the reproductive cycles of at least some creatures . |
| 5 | British empiricism , and to a lesser extent German idealism , must have entered the bloodstream of at least some subjects . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Firstly , they showed that improving the vitamin A intake of at least some populations of young African children can substantially reduce their mortality . |
| 9 | Britain DOES expect the UN to take up its offer of at least some troops . |
| 10 | For although I am sure he never had the chance to encounter a tiger beneath the dining table , when I think over all that I know or have heard concerning him , I can think of at least several instances of his displaying in abundance that very quality he so admired in the butler of his story . |
| 11 | Within the SenFed almost every one of those million or so planets is vying with at least some others — for influence , for position , for trade and aid and income . |
| 12 | Pre-literate peoples not only agree with modern taxonomists about species , but in at least some cases agree in identifying the same higher categories . |
| 13 | Nevertheless in recent years considerably more interest has been aroused and in at least some cases governments and international agencies are showing themselves willing to put real money into research . |
| 14 | Although the focus is on individual prisons , some account is taken of the wider prison system and , in at least some cases , the overall criminal justice process . |
| 15 | This latter system , which was then available in at least some cases in Belgium , France , Greece , Italy and the Netherlands , allows legally effective service on a defendant resident abroad to be made by leaving the relevant document at the office of the parquet in the forum state . |
| 16 | Whereas adjectives of this sort in English only make their presence felt by their effect on interpretation , it is noteworthy that in at least some cases the peculiar relationship of comparable words in other languages may have an influence on observable form . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , in at least some areas regional policy undoubtedly moderated unemployment . |
| 18 | He suggested the fishing ban in at least some areas could be lifted by April . |
| 19 | For example , in at least some authorities , ‘ care manager ’ is a new job with enhanced responsibilities ( and remuneration ) compared to , say , a social worker post , while key workers were not expected to alter significantly their job content . |
| 20 | Mr. Hacking , for the defendant , also drew attention to sections 24(4) and 28(6) of the Theft Act , which can be required only on the basis that section 15 , in at least some respects , is not dealing with theft . |
| 21 | Yet , even when this has been allowed for , the balance of forces between the continuing general oral culture and the selective technically transmitted culture has been in at least some respects altered , and with it the nature of the asymmetry between the institutions of cultural production and the broader institutions of general social and cultural reproduction . |
| 22 | By the third century it became common for at least some clergy in at least some places to wear either white or black — black being the more penitential . |
| 23 | Now they have begun to wonder whether many kinds of referring expressions are not in fact covertly indexical in at least some usages . |
| 24 | These observations have a particular point since it is arguable that a study skills " tail " is in danger of wagging a library project " dog " in at least some schools , and in the work of the Inservice Panel . |
| 25 | Despite the superficial stupidity of the action , it must have some special advantage in at least enough cases for it to have been the subject of natural selection . |
| 26 | And equivalent results have come from at least some studies using the conditioned suppression procedure ( e.g. Baker and Mercier ( 1982b ) , who compared intervals of 1 day and 5 days ; Hall and Minor ( 1984 ) , who compared 1 day and 8 days ; but see also Crowell and Anderson ( 1972 ) ) . |
| 27 | If we house them we need to look after all the people , we make no apologies for the fact that this is a budget slanted towards equal opportunities and to an anti-poverty strategy and that is something that we will fight to preserve and we would expect support from at least some quarters in order to achieve an egalitarian status in this city . |
| 28 | Large firms have the expectation that prolonged recession will provoke assistance from at least some parts of the bureaucracy . |
| 29 | Many horse owners know that their horse can smell dry oats or grain , which for us have no odour , from at least several feet away . |
| 30 | According to at least some physicists , life can be reduced to a matter of information-processing . |