Example sentences of "least of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in Beijing on March 25th , as he plodded through a three-hour speech at the opening session of China 's annual parliament , the National People 's Congress , some at least of the 3,000 delegates must have felt a twinge of sympathy . |
| 2 | The celebration must take place between the hours of 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. , and must be preceded by a publication of banns or the obtaining of a Registrar 's certificate or a Bishop 's or Registrar 's licence , and unless a special licence is obtained from the Archbishop of Canterbury , must take place in a recognized place of worship or Registrar 's office situate in the district in which one at least of the parties resides . |
| 3 | Some action has been taken in most countries to support the survival at least of the more important communities in such areas . |
| 4 | We eschew mathematical or linguistic ( at least of the propositional kind ) coding and tun to our feeling response . |
| 5 | For a British army encamped on ancient Carthaginian ground , it was perhaps natural to enjoy without too many qualms some at least of the diversions which Livy suggested had got the better of the Carthaginians . |
| 6 | If this is the case , it implies that some at least of the feedback systems maintaining human wellbeing may be in difficulties simply because they are being called upon to function near the limits of their capacity . |
| 7 | They included gross and shifting uncertainties about money , great division of counsel in the General Assembly of the Company , fundamental differences of opinion between two at least of the engineers called on to survey the route , James Barnes and Thomas Telford , and , above all , the engineering of a very difficult route . |
| 8 | Once at the station , the suspect meets the ‘ custody officer ’ , a person at least of the rank of sergeant and somebody who is unconnected with the case . |
| 9 | When I first became involved in what I suppose can be called the politics of conservation , I was swift to argue that farmers are the essential inhabitants of the countryside , and not least of the most beautiful parts of the countryside . |
| 10 | Therapeutic systems which disregard the more subtle aspects of the individual are likely to miss some at least of the precipitating factors in disease causation and are therefore likely to be less effective in treatment . |
| 11 | ( If the change in the production process did have a capital cost then some at least of the cost of that capital would go to pay the wages and salaries of those in the capital goods industry . |
| 12 | But if this food is in short supply and the whole population is in danger of dying out , then cannibalism makes sense : it maximises the food supply and vastly increases the chance that some at least of the tadpoles will survive . |
| 13 | Here too Anselm is adopting some part at least of the vocabulary of the new ecclesiastical theorists in describing the situation which Rufus had taken over from his father . |
| 14 | That is part at least of the secret of his continuing appeal . |
| 15 | Some at least of the Knossos ivory figurines were made in the workshop beside the Royal Road . |
| 16 | It appears that some at least of the variation in the cyanogenesis polymorphism over the field can be explained as local micro-evolution in response to locally patchy selection . |
| 17 | As , however , he directed his son-in-law to apply 2s. of the yearly rent to the keeping of an obit for six years , it sounds as though his tenement was larger and that part at least of the assessment represented income from letting . |
| 18 | Although the academic study of Roman law took a long time to have practical effect , by the 1170s and 1180s it was occasionally cited authoritatively in some at least of the courts of the south . |
| 19 | I do n't think that anyone could contemplate a retrospective of Matisse without the involvement at least of the four central institutions which are collaborating on our exhibition : the two Russian museums ; Paris and ourselves . |
| 20 | Rather , many contemporaries were impressed by the growing capacity of some at least of the working class to practice self- and mutual-help and they sought ways of encouraging its further development . |
| 21 | It was difficult in the 1880s to ignore the fact that some at least of the working class were becoming increasingly active on various economic and political issues , were less acquiescent than previously and that organizations were being formed to defend and further their interests . |
| 22 | The combination of high unemployment and the unprecedented unwillingness of some at least of the unemployed to accept their fate passively , demonstrated more starkly than before the absence of systematic public provision fur the unemployed . |
| 23 | By 1483 some at least of the royal servants were sufficiently committed to Gloucester to play an active role in his coup . |
| 24 | If the public were schooled to discriminate between the germane and the irrelevant , the authentic and the phoney , and the reality and the appearance , nine-tenths at least of the advertising industry would be out of work . |
| 25 | But how will first-past-the-post voting come to be superseded , Not , we may regrettably foresee , because one at least of the two big parties has belatedly recognized that PR is a fundamental principle of true democracy . |
| 26 | All this can be put on a quantitative basis and doing so results in the celebrated condition written unc that is , the product of the uncertainties in position and momentum is always at least of the order of magnitude of Planck 's constant . |
| 27 | By the 1930s , some part at least of the more advanced views of the previous two decades was beginning to percolate into society as a whole . |
| 28 | Crucial to these observations are satellites , satellites have the ability to make measurements at least of the surface layer of the ocean on a nearly daily basis . |
| 29 | I have already questioned the absolute relevance of attitude measures , but if they do measure some at least of the effect of advertising , some of the time , the general slowness of movement of these measures implies , at least , that such change occurs gradually as a result of the cumulative build-up of the message of the campaign . |
| 30 | These emissaries often bore gifts as well as eloquent words : since at least the early thirteenth century royal pensions were granted to promising or influential cardinalsto eighteen at least of the seventy-two who there were between 1305 and 1334 , to six alone in 1309 when the royal mission secured papal backing for Gaveston 's recall . |