Example sentences of "[verb] at [adv] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But soon the big stories were written in the knowledge that readers would know at least the bare bones from a news bulletin , and the 24-hour cycle of the daily paper lost much of its point as a news medium . |
| 2 | He said fierce fighting was taking place near Bahdu and insisted I would need at least a hundred soldiers if I went there . |
| 3 | He added , however , that his firm would win at least the same revenues as 1992 — $40m . |
| 4 | Besides having this example of baronial efficiency before his eyes , common sense might have suggested the importance of revealing at once the new conditions for ecclesiastical support which he had brought back from the Roman Council of 1099 . |
| 5 | The job depended upon careful organisation as it had to be come at only a few days ' notice . |
| 6 | The publisher , traditionally , needs to sell at least a thousand copies of that to be worth even advertising it , but this means that you can print an extra copy whenever you want and this then implies perhaps and even larger and larger growth and more and more specialised information , which only computers can manage , and one hesitates to work out where the end of all this is . |
| 7 | The publisher , traditionally , needs to sell at least a thousand copies of that to be worth even advertising it , but this means that you can print an extra copy whenever you want and this then implies and even larger and larger growth in more and more specialised information which only computers can manage , and one hesitates to work out where the end of all this is . |
| 8 | It meets at least every two months , setting and monitoring Group strategy , reviewing trading performance , ensuring adequate funding , examining major acquisition and joint venture possibilities , formulating policy on key issues and reporting to shareholders . |
| 9 | The Experience consists of four young men who look , talk and act as if they 've grown up in good families , graduated from decent schools , and dress as if they shop at just the right places — Paul Smith , say , or Emporio Armani . |
| 10 | Authorisation is in the hands of the Department of Trade and Industry and depends upon a trust 's deed meeting at least the following conditions : |
| 11 | They think it 's the same teenager who 's made at least a dozen calls to the police and a hospital in Lincolnshire she sometimes uses the name Cindy and sometimes Linda . |
| 12 | As we 've just heard in the headlines Nottinghamshire police have taken the unusual step of releasing a recording of a girl they believe has made at least a dozen calls claiming she 's given birth . |
| 13 | They think it 's the same teenager who 's made at least a dozen calls to the police and a hospital in Lincolnshire since reporting the birth at the weekend . |
| 14 | They think it 's the same teenager who 's made at least a dozen calls to the police and a hospital in Lincolnshire since reporting the birth at the weekend . |
| 15 | Yet they remained , practically and culturally , a fractional formation , and this can be seen especially with the advantage of hindsight , since it is now evident that they were expressing at once the highest values of the bourgeois tradition and the necessary next phase of a bourgeois social and cultural order . |
| 16 | Three out of four children are aware of cigarettes before they reach the age of 5 whether the parents smoke or not ; at 10 years old as many as 40% of boys and 28% of girls have had at least a few puffs of a cigarette [ 1 ] and about one third of those who become regular smokers have started before age 9 [ 2 ] . |
| 17 | Finally , Ebussu'ud Efendi also stipulated the number of students to whom each entitled office-holder in the learned profession might grant and though the numbers which he fixed are not reported , figures have been given above which comprise a partial list for the of 959 and 963 , while Ata'i gives another partial list for the of 973 , in which the kazaskers were each permitted to invest ten students as " the kadis of the three cities ' i.e. those of Istanbul , Edirne and Bursa ) five each , and " the other kadis of the throne " a term of uncertain application , but almost certainly comprising at least the other kadis mentioned in the decree of 963 ) three each : the figures for the kazaskers at least , and probably the others as well , applied down to Ata'i 's own day . |
| 18 | One of the advantages of a religious education is the ability to identify at least the better-known texts of scripture and this was one which it needed no effort of memory to recall . |
| 19 | … that after paying at least a dozen visits to Cambridge and engaging in the most unpleasant negotiations I have ever had in my life , we have managed to retain recognition as a body which is normally recognised for Chapter III powers and obtained an agreement which the University people hate like poison . |
| 20 | A MAN who usually stuck to soft drinks died after downing at least a dozen whiskies , an inquest heard yesterday . |
| 21 | For example , polonium-210 concentrates at least a thousand times in fresh fish and more in shellfish . |
| 22 | Scotch whisky is produced at over a hundred distilleries , widely scattered , but the greatest concentration of the industry is along the River Spey and its tributaries . |
| 23 | Physical examination including the presence or development of ascites and evaluation of neurological status were performed at least every four hours . |
| 24 | And I now know at least a few words in Greek , Italian and Portuguese ! ’ |
| 25 | Although both the USSR and Somalia downplayed the Soviet presence in Berbera , there existed at least a long-range communications station for submarines at Berbera , which formed part of the Soviet nuclear strategic infrastructure . |
| 26 | There is a certain doubt as to whether the universe is old enough for any Black Dwarfs to have been produced as yet , but eventually it must happen , and this will be the final fate of the Sun — though we will not be there to see ; the Earth can hardly expect to survive the Red Giant stage , when the Sun will radiate at least a hundred times as fiercely as it does at present . |
| 27 | A gigantic undertaking like the invasion of Europe needed at least a few days of good weather to give it a chance , and we appeared to be settled into a period of wind , rain and low cloud . |
| 28 | I must have at least a dozen dresses made before I can shew my face in town . |
| 29 | An adequate extrapolation theory must have at least the following features : |
| 30 | We have said clearly that we shall not accept changes in the rules on rabies unless we can have at least the same safeguards as we have today . |