Example sentences of "least as [adj] as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As villages grew into towns and towns into cities , the lack of churchyards was felt at least as much as the lack of churches . |
| 2 | Women in contracted-out pension schemes get a guaranteed minimum pension , which must be at least as much as the pension they would have received from SERPS . |
| 3 | At least Jeremy Seabrook 's cut-out cardboard teenage figures of abject horror and pity know , as they sit sniffing glue and planning how to knock off a video recorder , that the world owes them something , that they have a right to the earth , an attitude at least as subversive as the endurance " that is the result of not being ever given very much . |
| 4 | ( Under the scheme , those who belong to an occupational scheme which provides a pension at least as good as the state can partially contract out of the state scheme and pay a lower contribution . ) |
| 5 | This scheme provided for a mixed system of public and private pensions , with many of the better paid and more secure groups of workers able to ‘ contract out ’ into private schemes so long as they were at least as good as the State Earnings Related Pensions Scheme ( SERPS ) . |
| 6 | Particularly with Office Systems and Groupware applications the information issues may be at least as complex as the technology . |
| 7 | These results are examples of Sylvester 's law of degeneracy ( see Theorem XII of 1.22 ) , viz. the degeneracy of the product of two matrices is at least as great as the degeneracy of either factor , and at most as great as the sum of the degeneracies of the factors . |
| 8 | Theorem XII — Sylvester 's Law of Degeneracy : the degeneracy of the product of two square matrices is at least as great as the degeneracy of either factor , and at most as great as the sum of the degeneracies of the factors , or the order of the matrices , whichever is less . |
| 9 | The traditional type of plotter is known as a ‘ flat bed ’ plotter because the paper is fixed to a flat plate with the gantry travelling over the top but the disadvantage is that the plotter must be at least as big as the piece of paper . |
| 10 | This superb recital illustrates that the art of transcription is , in its finest form , at least as valuable as the art of variation on a borrowed theme . |
| 11 | Some regard what they do simply as a form of legitimate adult play , while others take it far more seriously and see themselves as going beyond present human limitations , journeying into a new galaxy of knowledge in a way which they find at least as exciting as the exploration of deep space . |
| 12 | The display territory must be at least as large as the floor area of your tank — and so yours undoubtedly supposes that any female who visits him is ready to spawn . |
| 13 | Your behaviour is at least as important as the content of what you have to say . |
| 14 | Giving a presentation is a classic example of where your behaviour is at least as important as the content of what you have to say . |
| 15 | The establishing of proper procedures to incorporate the standard terms into contracts is at least as important as the drafting exercise itself ; the drafter should therefore be prepared to advise the client on contract formation procedures , and may include appropriate terms to cover the problems created by telephone orders etc. ( 10 ) What insurance cover is available to the client ? |
| 16 | But one is left with the feeling that throughout the exercise the importance of recovering the Government 's position has been at least as important as the evaluation of a national energy policy . |
| 17 | For a predator such as a hyena , a part of its environment that is at least as important as the weather is its prey , the changing populations of gnus , zebras and antelopes . |
| 18 | To most animals , the clarity of each image is at least as important as the number per second , and many have found ways of sharpening up the picture . |
| 19 | The idea of Tyneside is at least as old as the middle of the nineteenth century when modern industrial interests combined with local radical politicians to wrest control of the river from the city of Newcastle which until then had exercised a medieval monopoly . |
| 20 | Human variations of waste recycling are at least as old as the practice of ‘ folding ’ sheep on the poorer uplands of medieval Europe to manure the fields and provide nutrients for summer cereals . |
| 21 | Its origins are at least as old as the appointment by St. Paulinus in 627 of James the Deacon to educate the singing boys in York . |