Example sentences of "[prep] at [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Woodley said the ballot had already achieved its objection of bringing pressure on the receivers and the Government to sanction immediate payments of at least the minimum state redundancy payoff to the 1,600 workers who have already lost their jobs . |
| 2 | Outside Parliament , an all-party Children 's Minimum Campaign Committee had been formed in 1934 ‘ to ensure that no child shall by reason of the poverty of its parents be deprived of at least the minimum food and other requirements for full health ’ . |
| 3 | Full realisation of the meaning of the partial divergence in styles of appeal between parliament and country requires recognition of at least the limited equation of ‘ enthusiasm ’ with popular opinion . |
| 4 | But we need to have a degree of common ownership of at least the broad parameters of what the world may look like , and we then seek the whole time to simplify down and down and down . |
| 5 | A key to the realization of his assets in Spain was a perilous shipment to Peru ; the success of at least the outward journey meant financial relief , but it was not until the war with Spain ended in 1808 that Gibbs 's difficulties really began to abate . |
| 6 | In Freud 's terms , this becomes a joke when both teller and listener , writer and reader , share an appreciation of at least the potential value of that sexuality . |
| 7 | And each of these continued to be important throughout at least the inter-war period . |
| 8 | Nevertheless it is important that every member of a firm should be familiar with at least the basic arrangements for its administration and should not be denied access to information about the activities of the firm at any level , subject always to their giving reasonable notice . |
| 9 | Forest it was then and the GNF meets the definition in at least the large tract of land sense . |
| 10 | Representatives came from at least the following states : Uttar Pradesh , Andhra Pradesh , Panjab , Gujarat , Kerala , Assam , Maharashtra , Mysore , Rajasthan . |
| 11 | An important and different form of internal organization , distinct from at least the main phases of the bardic orders , is the craft guild , which was very common in later medieval society . |
| 12 | from at least the previous September . |
| 13 | From at least the closing years of the eighteenth century the decline of gentry involvement and even tolerance of plebeian sports was evident . |
| 14 | Each time the oil was replenished to at least the original amount . |
| 15 | It is also expected to lead to student transfers between the two centres , distance learning through new technologies and Kirkcaldy running franchised courses for at least the early years of Dundee 's courses . |
| 16 | However , a steady increase in new cases among heterosexuals would carry on for at least the medium term . |
| 17 | The elections in the Baltic republics , unlike in the rest of the Soviet Union , were held on a genuinely multiparty basis , constitutionally guaranteed Communist Party ( CP ) monopolies having been abolished in the past three months and new parties having been allowed to form for at least the past year . |
| 18 | Although , as discussed in Chapter 4 , most search consultants encounter difficulties in attracting candidates on behalf of clients who insist on remaining anonymous for at least the initial stages of the search , many clients see this as a real plus in using headhunters in the first place . |
| 19 | That state schools should teach by the oral method , but that a child found incapable of learning lipreading and speech after being taught these subjects for at least the initial year should , with the consent of the parents , be removed from the oral department of the school and , subject to strict segregation , be taught on the sign and manual system elsewhere . |
| 20 | Consumption of the Nazca Plate along the nascent Peru-Chile Trench had begun by at least the Late Triassic — Early Jurassic and marked the conversion of the previously ‘ passive ’ continental margin ( see Chapter 4 ) of western South America to an active convergent plate boundary ( Fig. 3.13 ( A ) and ( B ) ) . |
| 21 | You will need a strip of paper to equal this length by at least the desired depth of your pelmet . |