Example sentences of "at least the [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most Soviet citizens , however , appeared to have remained loyal to their native language in their domestic and family life , and there was little sign of the disappearance of at least the major Soviet languages , most of which were still spoken by the great majority of the nationalities in question ( the 1979 census found that 62 per cent of non-Russians were fluent in that language , but that 93 per cent of the population identified their national language as their native one ; the 1989 census found that the reported level of knowledge of Russian had actually fallen among at least two national groups , the Uzbeks and Lithuanians ) . |
| 2 | At least the poor bloody infantry in the trenches during the First World War did n't have to put up with that . |
| 3 | Western music as a whole , since at least the late Middle Ages , is best seen as a ‘ total system ’ . |
| 4 | They are then used to support recommendations concerning the organization of society and personal conduct resting on straight matters of fact , or at least the best available opinion on matters of fact , of the one kind around which clear minded people can expect to rally as a basis for human cooperation . |
| 5 | This does not mean however that some valuations are not more right than others ; appreciating at least the following practical points will help make sure that our valuations are ‘ more right ’ than not : |
| 6 | The best way to start on this dis section of this discussion may be to erm express the observation that the county council and at least one of the local authorities which is Harrogate , erm are already engaged in have been engaged in for some time a very positive erm activity to try and attract to the county inward investment predicament that the economic development unit of the county council , the economic development of at of at least the one local authority that I have named and erm prospective developers such I 'm representing today , share common predicament , is that the existing structure plan constructs some obstructions , erects some obstructions to the attraction of inward investment into the county . |
| 7 | Thus by overtly infringing some maxim , the speaker can force the hearer to do extensive inferencing to some set of propositions , such that if the speaker can be assumed to be conveying these then at least the over-arching cooperative principle would be sustained . |
| 8 | One tape unit will be required to run this procedure , together with at least the next sequential NEWOED tape . |
| 9 | Providing you continue to pay your monthly premiums — which wo n't increase , incidentally — you 'll remain covered for the rest of your life for at least the Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit . |
| 10 | Therefore , banks and shareholders ( or , at least the large institutional shareholders plus unit trust holders etc. ) do not have the same objectives . |
| 11 | Loch Morlich must have been stunningly beautiful once , before the picnic tables and dinghies arrived , and at least the wonderful Scots pines that surround it have survived and are now protected . |
| 12 | Henceforth the whole cosmos or at least the whole solar system must be conceived as a process of constant historical change . |