Example sentences of "be at least [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And may this book be at least a small stepping-stone on your way . |
| 2 | What we mean … is that the probability of the person 's having an accident is high , and his own mariner of driving will be at least a partial cause of the accident . |
| 3 | Herein lies the problem : the wood needs to be of a species for which there is a ‘ master chronology ’ ( see p. 125 ) and there must normally be at least a hundred tree rings in the sample to be dated to ensure a unique match with the master pattern . |
| 4 | Violet , watching the tall negress , a bold haughty bearing ; she appeared the star attraction out of all the women — and there must , all smoking , posing , rude as the renaissance , be at least a hundred whores — wondered ( such a rate , turnover ) at the money in her handbag . |
| 5 | Some of them were said to be at least a hundred years old . |
| 6 | Liz had joked that they were sure , in the rafters , to discover a dead baby , and indeed they did find there a mummified cat , which a pathologist friend hazarded to be at least a hundred years old . |
| 7 | Before primary gall stones form , there must be at least a triple defect : ( i ) the secretion of bile that is supersaturated with cholesterol , ( ii ) a nucleation defect due to an excess of promotors or a deficiency of inhibitors of crystallisation , or both , and ( iii ) stasis within the gall bladder secondary to impaired gall bladder motor function . |
| 8 | On the slopes of Everest there are believed to be at least a dozen bodies of climbers who could not get to the top , or could not get down again . |
| 9 | Putting it at its simplest it should be at least a clear mission statement which the whole organisation understands . |
| 10 | I think also we ought to be guarded about too much detailed discussion of travel distances , we are talking here at most of travel distances of between six and ten miles , in keeping with the policy , erm it seems to me that erm if we we spend too much time on trying to determine whether six or ten miles distant , is is there any great significance in terms of the global environment it would be at least an unproved case , one way or the other , but also there seems to me to be a clear conflict in those who are trying to say that the new settlement proposal falls because not large enough of a site is being proposed , one way and another . |
| 11 | But under these circumstances it must , from the nature of things , be at least an even chance that the jury called upon to find a publisher guilty may sympathise with his language … as fair and laudable criticism of official errors . |
| 12 | But the same evidence could have led to a theory celebrating the system which , by laying down norms , establishing disciplines and , most important of all , providing scripts that , while not always particularly imaginative , were at least a sound basis to work from , enabled these directors to realize their individual vision . |
| 13 | During the first few tens of Ma Jupiter would cool so quickly that it hardly matters what the initial temperatures were provided that they were at least a few times 10 000 K. After a few hundred Ma , the exact time depending on the initial temperatures but in any case a small fraction of Jupiter 's lifetime , the rate of cooling would be far less . |
| 14 | The footsteps were getting nearer and from the sound of it there were at least a dozen men . |
| 15 | And including second-language users as well as those less fluent there are at least a billion speakers worldwide . |
| 16 | There are at least a dozen people who can testify to that . |
| 17 | You are at least the third person today who calls to inquire . |
| 18 | British support alone would have been at least a mixed blessing . |
| 19 | Another seven people murdered in Northern Ireland , a dreadful end to a dreadful week , and yet on Friday there had been at least a little optimism in the air , John Major and Albert Reynolds getting together in Brussels for what were billed as substantive talks , where does all that go now ? |
| 20 | Because the actual physical damage was so variable in its extent , it was immediately obvious to the early investigators that the almost total mortality was not solely the result of the force of the blast , since there would have been at least a few survivors in areas where the blast was less severe . |
| 21 | The T 2 observations may be affected simply by the fact that this is at least a second experience of being observed , i.e. there may be a learning effect due to T 1 . |
| 22 | In current circumstances such involvement is at least a genuine possibility . |
| 23 | Between Levels 1 and 2 there is at least a logical association that would support their inclusion in some form in the same hierarchy . |
| 24 | Abel Ferrara 's Ms 45 Angel of Vengance is at least a wittier variation on the same theme , played as straightforward exploitation entertainment , with men as most of its victims . |
| 25 | What is remarkable about the text-books ( which describe the chemical structure of the various chains in loving detail ) is not so much that they do not explain the discrepancy but that they do not even notice it ; nor are they apparently interested in the fact that the work of fracture for a material like Polythene or Nylon is at least a hundred times higher than it is for most of the thermosetting plastics . |
| 26 | The evidence is that communications from the judiciary to the Home Secretary on this topic are confidential ; and I accept that there is at least a tacit agreement that neither side will disclose them without the consent of the other . |
| 27 | One could wish that to celebrate this moving occasion ( for it is at least a partial farewell ) a master of verbal portraiture were at hand ; though so elusive is personality , so unlike the impression that the same person may make on different observers , we might well have no great faith in the verisimilitude of the sketch , if produced . |
| 28 | In order to ensure that there is at least a decent degree of match between the colour on the screen and the colour that will eventually be printed , Adobe have built in a compensation system . |
| 29 | Thus , where there is a shift in demand towards good X and away from good Y , when prices are ‘ sticky ’ downwards , the price of X can only rise relative to Y if the money price of X rises more rapidly than the money price of Y. If economic agents are reluctant to reduce prices , then the price system will fail to operate unless there is at least a moderate rate of inflation . |
| 30 | So you see , it is at least a moral responsibility of the City . ’ |