Example sentences of "[to-vb] at [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the adolescent , however , one will normally be able to communicate at least on a broadly similar level of sexual understanding with one 's own . |
| 2 | There is , furthermore , at least some limited evidence to suggest that most commercials do not need to be as long as they are in order to communicate at least the more fundamental elements of their message . |
| 3 | ‘ I hear they 've got a problem to worry at there , but details I do n't know . ’ |
| 4 | The evidence is that at the present time there is a serious lack of resources to care adequately for the number of sufferers living in ordinary housing , and that this mismatch between numbers and resources is likely to increase at least to the end of the century . |
| 5 | Third , I think there are good reasons to encourage at least one food supermarket in the city centre . |
| 6 | None of the theories proposed for the phenomenon is wholly satisfactory but there is evidence that requires us to accept at least some aspects of several of them . |
| 7 | His failure to accept at least one gilt-edged chance when he was finally awarded his sixth cap against Norway last month , may also count against Wright when England manager Graham Taylor picks his squad on Thursday for the next World Cup qualifier against Turkey on November 18 . |
| 8 | Speedier technological change will increase the need for most people to retrain at least once during their working life , which should mean more jobs for teachers of all sorts . |
| 9 | First , it is technically possible to predict patterns of cultural diversity , expressed as the ethnographic curves , from a knowledge of individual cognitive development , and also to perform the reverse : to infer at least some of the principal properties of cognitive development from a knowledge of the pattern of cultural diversity . |
| 10 | These points should be should be looked into but as I say I take my hat off to infer at least having been loyalty to defend the inquest . |
| 11 | It is generally possible to isolate at least one compelling selling feature even if it is only that your client 's product is the cheapest . |
| 12 | If possible , try to adjust at least partially to the local time of your destination by going to bed one or two hours earlier each night and getting up one or two hours earlier each day . |
| 13 | In January 1991 the Supreme Court ruled that the adjournment was in breach of the Constitution ( which contained an obligation for the legislature to meet at least three times a year ) , causing Namaliu to announce that the legislature would reconvene in May . |
| 14 | It is clear that the lexical representation is flexible enough to meet at least some of the demands of real speech , and certainly adequate for the experiments that will be described in the following chapters . |
| 15 | I am pleased we are to meet at 5p.m. or thereabouts at Waterloo on Wednesday , 8th February when I 'm down for the Co-ordinators , to take a close look at the programme for our Scottish National Conference on 10–12 March at the Scottish Churches House , Dunblane , in which you , Ingrid Keith and Mauricio Laborde , Chile , are to share . |
| 16 | Every offering seems to contain at least four separate songs — so there 's rarely any danger of things descending into the kind of tedium often purveyed by dreadlocked squat-dwellers . |
| 17 | DRTF1/E2F thus appears to contain at least two sequence-specific DNA-binding proteins . |
| 18 | In one sense they are the British equivalent of political advertising on American television ‘ but they differ from such advertising in three very important ways : first , PFB broadcasting is free ( although the parties have to bear at least some of the production costs — indeed , all of the production costs if they wish to use private production facilities ) ; second , the number of PEB broadcasts is fixed by agreement between broadcasters and the parties to reflect ( roughly ) the current popular standing of the parties ( in 1987 Labour , the Liberal-SDP Alliance , and the Conservatives got exactly equal time for PEBs while other parties received very much less ) ; third , the broadcasters have insisted , against the politicians ’ wishes , that PEBs be short programmes typically ten minutes long , rather than high-impact adverts of perhaps twenty or thirty seconds ' duration . |
| 19 | The existing rebate system is geared to the needs of the most vulnerable in society , but for those at the income margin the full impact of the tax charges are brought to bear at relatively low levels of income . |
| 20 | It is also likely to provoke at least a verbal protest from the United States , which has warned against any attempt to stem the flow of American programmes across the Atlantic . |
| 21 | I meant to write at once . |
| 22 | But as fear of Soviet intentions increased , so some in Britain began to feel that concessions might be necessary in order to secure at least a degree of American backing in the region . |
| 23 | Now that Antoinette was dead , there was no one to repeat to her to be careful , not to drop it , to try at least to walk like a lady , not to plonk it down like that . |
| 24 | You will find in this section many programs , from Home and Hobbies to professional DTP packages , that you are able to try at only 2.50 per disc . |
| 25 | Similarly , mechanisms to excrete at least most of the excess salt that we eat , since most of us consume about ten times the amount necessary for our bodily needs . |
| 26 | Those cuts apply not only to the group of people whom the Conservatives would like to have us believe are claimants — the little group of scroungers whom Labour Members wish to prosecute at least as much as Conservative Members do , because of the vast number of people in need who are tarred with the ’ scroungers ’ brush that the Government choose to use . |
| 27 | The courier had orders for them to repair at once to Edinburgh , where the Regent was to summon an urgent Council . |
| 28 | The problems of the British social formation were sufficiently pressing to demand at least rhetorical radical solutions from the parties ( Wilson 's ‘ planning ’ , Heath 's ‘ free market ’ ) , and governments ' failures to match their promises were of sufficient concern to the people to breed a serious disillusionment with party politics , yet I submit that for most people of all classes the problems were not considered so urgent as to demand a really radical questioning of existing social relations , with all the risks that would entail . |
| 29 | There are enough members in the North-East to demand at least one visit a season from their team . |
| 30 | I have seen this kind of thing so often , and it will serve as an example to indicate at least five fundamental errors which are extremely common : The principal errors are : |