Example sentences of "[conj] at [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some historians have seen St Pirmin 's monastic foundations ( the most famous at Reichenau ) , by which Pirmin made an important contribution to the Christianization of the south-west German world in the first half of the eighth century , as an attack upon Boniface 's episcopal authority among the Germans , or at least as the creation of a counter-sphere of influence . |
| 2 | ‘ And she 's adapted to spending seven months virtually imprisoned in bed , or at least on the couch … |
| 3 | In any case , with Muslim extremists threatening to dominate the region , the Western world needed Syria either in its camp or at least on the sidelines . |
| 4 | Yes , I would have thought this would happen soon , or at least on the bench . |
| 5 | This duality between solidity and beauty thus expressed a sharp division between the material and the ideal , the bodily and the spiritual , highly typical of the bourgeois world ; yet spirit and ideal in it depended on matter , and could be expressed only through matter , or at least through the money which could buy it . |
| 6 | She immediately saw the sense in these remarks and abandoned for ever ( or at least for the time being ) the view that the reluctance of the Church to ordain women revealed it as bigoted and unfair . |
| 7 | Only the France of the Sun King could afford the luxury of overseas development for its own sake , or at least for the sake of a distant and ill-defined future . |
| 8 | Or at least with the way it converts internal formats into PostScript . |
| 9 | But Bolinger also believes that there is a correlation with syntax , or at least with the facts of surface syntactic form . |
| 10 | erm But I do think that women need to have much more of a sense of their own power , or at least of the fact that they 're not as powerless as they think of themselves as being , and so they can say when the tutor puts his hand on their knee or something like that ‘ I 'm sorry , would you take your hand away , that 's not part of our relationship ’ or something that just so they do n't have to feel so bad about it . |
| 11 | Up to , you know , few hours where we 've been together , he 'll actually be prepared or at least to the rest of us , who the hell he 's talking about . |
| 12 | Relationship difficulty begets sexual difficulty , sexual difficulty begets relationship problems and so , very often , ad infinitum or at least to the point of marital termination . |
| 13 | His co-pilot radioed the command centre , requesting a fix in order to enable him to plot the best route back to Britain , or at least to the channel where he could be picked up by the coastguard or a spotter plane . |
| 14 | Dot wished she 'd been given a bed nearer one of the windows so she could see out , or at least by the door . |
| 15 | Which of the four common jobs in 1980 may almost have disappeared by 1990 or at least by the year 2000 ? |
| 16 | One common conception of democracy is that it means " government by the people " or at least by the people 's elected representatives — since it is generally accepted , rightly or wrongly , that in large modern states the people themselves can not govern . |
| 17 | Molly understood that water would come by lorry during the afternoon or at least by the evening . |
| 18 | Women have no say in their marriages : often they are married when still babies , or at least by the age of five in a group ceremonial marriage , for youths , held for them at the close of their bachelor hut initiation period . |
| 19 | I shall refer to those who believe that differences in attainment appear during adolescence as the A group , and those who argue that these differences are evident during ( or at least by the end of ) the primary years as the P group . |
| 20 | Though areas of uncertainty and dispute remain , for example in the Barents Sea , settlement is expected within the terms of the 1982 Convention , or at least within the spirit of international cooperation that underlies it ( Theutenberg 1984 ) . |
| 21 | Will my right hon. Friend undertake to arrange a debate before Christmas , or at least before the December Council of Ministers meeting on fishing , so that we may have our annual chance to discuss the state of the fishing industry in England and elsewhere in the kingdom ? |
| 22 | The art discussed may still be in situ , or at least in the country of its origin ; hence the immense attraction of travel to the sites of great civilisations such as Egypt or Mexico . |
| 23 | It does seem that Ross 's view is ( as he claimed ) very much that of the man in the street ( or at least in the streets with which Ross was familiar ) . |
| 24 | Covering his tracks a little he added , ‘ or at least in the history of English poetry ’ . |
| 25 | In particular three forms are prescribed , which to minimise translation problems are required to be printed either in all four official languages of the Organization of American States ( English , French , Portuguese and Spanish ) or at least in the languages of the states of origin and destination . |
| 26 | Credit Data told us that their policy was that only information about people under the same name should be passed where there was any possibility of multiple occupancy at a given address , but we felt that at least at the time of our visit this policy might not be clearly understood by the operators themselves , who might give information about people with other names at the given address , too . |
| 27 | But it is worth noting that at least for the criticism of popular culture , and of television in particular , this apparently postmodern move may have less to do with a radical change in the terms of value than with a fundamental shift of attention — and of political faith — from the text to the audience . |
| 28 | But they do call us towards speech , so that at least in the urgency and the felt inadequacy of our attempt to speak , erm to speak those words and lines , we can act out something of the quality and kind of our response , our shadowy awareness of what these incomparable and shrieking voices meant to the Eliot who was fighting for his own voice . |
| 29 | This allows him to grow cells at about twice the number per unit volume that will survive in tissue culture — and at just below the density at which they begin to die , poisoned by their own wastes . |
| 30 | Robson may prefer Colombians , Czechs or Romanians , and at least with the Swedes you can be reasonably sure of a goalless draw . |