Example sentences of "be at least an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It has so far been assumed that while the corporate sector 's response to consumer demand may be imperfect , that what is responded to is at least an authentic expression of consumer tastes . |
| 4 | It looks , therefore , as if there is at least an empirical connection between academic autonomy and academic freedom . |
| 5 | That said , Tuxedo and Encina are aeons away from each other too , while CICS/6000 is at least an open systems migration route for standard CICS skills and applications . |
| 6 | That is , to put it at its most basic , the respondent is at least an adequate reporter of his or her attitudes , beliefs and other subjective states , his or her relationship with others , past , present and intended behaviour , and about objective features of the respondent 's life . |
| 7 | It was at least an important dream , a literary dream , that dictated the pattern of our days . |
| 8 | But Greville was at least an able man , who in other offices showed some worth . |