Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am at least a stone overweight and my haircut is not sharp . |
| 2 | In the end I contacted my good friend Tom Poulton of the Tropical Marine Centre , Exeter , on the basis that I am at least a customer of his , albeit mainly for fish rather than equipment . |
| 3 | ‘ Peter would have brought it himself , but I 'm over here a lot these days . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm in rather a state about it myself , John , ’ said Bob . |
| 5 | I 'm in rather a hurry . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Actually , I 'm in rather a hurry . |
| 7 | Obviously I should have provided more text than I did , but I suppose I was in rather a hurry . |
| 8 | well its been in there a week |
| 9 | The data dictionary — being developed using SNI 's Entity Relationship Model ( UX No 409 ) — will form the basis of a planned Informix repository which is at least a year out and does n't have a target interface environment yet . |
| 10 | Record reviewers criticise from the standpoint of their own knowledge and experience , which is at once a strength , but carries with it inherent weaknesses . |
| 11 | She is a wooden ship , not unlike the old clippers we used to run for the grain trade before World War I , but she is at least a century older . |
| 12 | Is there anything else that I can do for her cos she says she is in quite a lot of discomfort at the moment . |
| 13 | I did n't think they could know anything about my boat — she was at least a mile away , on the northern edge of Winter Marsh , and as I 'd come from the road on the south they had no reason to search the northern shore . |
| 14 | While she — she was in quite a bargaining position . |
| 15 | We are in quite a mess to say the least . ’ |
| 16 | The sand and gravel there are at least an inch thick . |
| 17 | Where an instrumental ensemble is employed , with or without singers , it is necessary that there be at least a leader , if not a conductor . |
| 18 | Official figures are not available on the number of pickets injured , but there were at least a couple of fatalities and it is the opinion of some observers that , in the major conflicts of the dispute , casualties amongst the pickets greatly exceeded those of the police ( Wallington , 1985 : 149 ) . |
| 19 | There 's at least a metre . |
| 20 | There 's at least an hour or so of sunshine left . |
| 21 | And here there is at once a difficulty , in that the general productive order , throughout the centuries of the development of capitalism , has been predominantly defined by the market , and ‘ cultural production ’ , as we have seen , has been increasingly assimilated to its terms , yet any full identity between cultural production and general production has been to an important extent resisted , one of the forms of this resistance being the distinctions between ‘ artisan ’ , ‘ craftsman ’ and ‘ artist ’ , and in an important related form the distinction between ‘ objects of utility ’ and ‘ objects of art ’ . |
| 22 | There is at least a decade to go until her grandson , Prince William , is ready to succeed her . |
| 23 | With a transplant there is at least a chance that the victim will walk away from the hospital and enjoy a period of tolerable life ( slim though that chance may be ) . |
| 24 | If , therefore , it is difficult at this stage for us to establish with any certainty general patterns of cause and effect between ‘ industrialization ’ and the relatively autonomous conjugal family , it may be possible for us to argue that there is at least a degree of fit , a congruence , between these two elements . |
| 25 | On the other hand , there are vast numbers of planets in the Universe , so there is at least a possibility that , somewhere , such a lifeform exists . |
| 26 | There is at least a possibility that given the opportunity to reconsider their votes a majority of voters would have chosen Camel . |
| 27 | Moreover , there is at least a possibility that local authorities will house them and their rent will be paid under housing costs . |
| 28 | Therefore , a lawyer , a financial analyst , an accountant , or journalist , aware of inside information relating to a company in whose shares he trades , is liable under Rule 10b-5 notwithstanding the absence of a fiduciary duty to the issuer of the securities provided there is at least a duty owed to another person — here the law firm , the financial intermediary , the accountancy firm , or the newspaper . |
| 29 | Discourse is reciprocal when there is at least a potential for interaction , when the sender can monitor reception and adjust to it — or , to put it another way , where the receiver can influence the development of what is being said . |
| 30 | However , as a result of a recent Court of Appeal case ( Eurocopy plc v Teasdale , reported only in the November 1991 edition of the journal PLC ) there is at least a risk that the purchaser will be deprived of a remedy for breach of warranty where it is aware of the breach following a disclosure or otherwise , and despite any provisions in the sale and purchase agreement that no actual or constructive knowledge on the part of the purchaser would prejudice a claim . |