Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [conj] at [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | in Trafalgar Square , central London ; a church has stood on this site since at least the thirteenth century . |
| 2 | Er reading this article or at least the heading from it and the bit in the paper , you got the impression that solicitors were as bad as banks . |
| 3 | Selection mysteries have abounded on this tour but at least the move to use Robin Smith as an opener is working . |
| 4 | Very , very little really , erm we had contact with other Authorities of course , in the course , in erm er particularly in connection with evacuation , erm evacuation took up erm quite a lot of staff and , and time at that er particularly initially because erm Suffolk was in a peculiar position or at least the East Suffolk was , erm at the beginning of the war of course erm East Suffolk was an evacuation , er was erm a reception area |
| 5 | To run your average Windows app you 'll need 4Mb of RAM , a 100Mb hard disk and at least a 386 . |
| 6 | Sometimes he thought that he needed to feel like a woman , a younger woman or at least The Other Woman ; certainly he needed to feel like The Young Man . |
| 7 | The second attribute is that each paragraph should have as a first sentence a brief statement or at least an indication of what the paragraph is to consider . |
| 8 | Such pressures can lead to lack of environmental awareness or at least an understandable questioning of whether spending time or money or both on improving classroom ecology justifies the effort involved . |
| 9 | Mrs Gray was a tall , fairish woman with a slight stoop or at least a tendency for her shoulders to bow forward round her chest . |
| 10 | Basically , Mr Porceddu intends to jail every troublemaker in sight — a minimum of two days for offensive drunkenness , automatic detention until at least the first round is over for anything more serious . |
| 11 | The new laws are making tries a scarce commodity ; if Scotland are to become a creditable force by the next World Cup , the three-quarters will need a good overhaul or at least the acquisition of the necessary skills to perform their moves in the heat of an international arena . |
| 12 | Despite occasional minor recessions and balance of payments crises , full employment and at least a tolerable degree of stability are likely to be maintained . |
| 13 | Thus Everton , a modest sized village since at least the time of Domesday Book , lost its separate identity during the middle decades of the nineteenth century and became a working-class quarter of Liverpool . |
| 14 | CDS is committed to supporting that hardware until at least the year 2000 — it still builds and sells them — though there will be no further additions to the series . |
| 15 | A small dress : in a big print or at least a big colour . |
| 16 | I 'm incredibly lazy but I do think I 've found the right way or at least a better way than hers to live . |
| 17 | Two years later he bought my mother a new car and at just the same time I caught him in his office with his secretary . ’ |
| 18 | He sat down in a vacant chair and at once the younger cadet hurried to serve him with tea from a spotless samovar . |
| 19 | No such brutal suppression of a peaceful demonstration had been seen in the Soviet Union since at least the early 1960s , strengthening rumours that the action , directed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs rather than by Georgian officials , might have been covertly encouraged by Kremlin conservatives intent on discrediting Gorbachev and the policy of perestroika . |
| 20 | The Crime and Punishment notebooks expend considerable effort trying to establish an overarching reason or at least an empirical scatter of factors , and failing . |
| 21 | The unpredictable English weather meant that delivering the leaves at the right time and at exactly the right stage of development for silkworms to thrive on them was impossible . |
| 22 | It would be the way of our century to say that I was suffering from time-shock , no doubt ; since our personality is largely built and buttressed by our environment , and the assumptions environment and society force upon us , one has but to tip away that buttress and at once the personality is threatened with dissolution . |
| 23 | He , no more than General Christison in Java , was able to operate in a political vacuum but at least the French in Saigon were treated as allies rather than as one-time enemies although , in the absence of sufficient numbers of Frenchmen , Japanese troops were required to fight Vietnamese who , as in Hanoi , were intent on the politics of a fait accompli . |
| 24 | You might think there was something wrong with you if you did not enjoy this form of dedicated slavery but at least a woman had someone to share it with : her husband — and that third party in almost every educated parental home , Dr Benjamin Spock . |
| 25 | Henceforth the whole cosmos or at least the whole solar system must be conceived as a process of constant historical change . |
| 26 | Moreover , Marwnad Cynddylan ( ‘ Lament for Cynddylan ’ ) , perhaps by the bard , Meigant , may be of seventh-century date or at least no later than the ninth . |