Example sentences of "[verb] at least [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , where landlords were entitled to determine a twenty-one year lease " at the expiration of fourteen years if they shall require the premises for the purposes of a business carried on by them " it was held to be sufficient for them to show that they would need at least part of the premises before the date on which the lease would otherwise have expired by effluxion of time ( Parkinson v Barclays Bank Ltd [ 1951 ] 1 KB 368 ) . |
| 2 | After hearing several witnesses , including Aviv and the Observer 's reporter John Merritt , who had interviewed him in November 1989 , Magistrate Judge Ross found that Aviv had divulged at least part of his report to Merritt and had thereby waived work-product protection . |
| 3 | He subsequently went into partnership ; Stratford Mills were operated by Biddle and Bishop during the 1830s , although in later years , other tenants such as corn merchants , Reynolds and Allen , occupied at least part of the mills . |
| 4 | If he wo n't deal , we 'll send formal notice to King Henry , and see that the law has at least knowledge of the matter . ’ |
| 5 | The government had to increase its grant to the Arts Council in order to replace at least part of the subsidies these county authorities had paid to support cultural activities . |
| 6 | Larry 's mother had seen at least part of this . |
| 7 | About three-quarters of the most senior teachers had seen at least part of the booklet , whereas only 15 per cent of the most junior had , with 60 per cent and 40 per cent for the upper and lower middle status categories respectively . |
| 8 | The Spanish government may , of course , be hoping in the long term to be able to buy at least part of this collection at favourable rates ; otherwise it must simply be gambling on the Thyssen collection being a sufficiently spectacular and alluring feather in the cultural cap of the capital over the next ten years to make its considerable investment worthwhile . |
| 9 | The argument that the position of the Phillips curve depends on inflationary expectations may provide at least part of the explanation for the empirical breakdown of the original Phillips curve in the late 1960s . |
| 10 | The pharmacokinetics of morphine may provide at least part of the explanation , but there are too few data to justify the editorial 's subheading ( morphine-3-glucuronide does not , by the way , bind to opiate receptors ) . |
| 11 | Parchment and vellum should be approached with great caution , since they are not likely to respond to ordinary cleaning methods ; but the firm Archival Aids , of High Wycombe , Bucks , which specialises in the safe treatment of early records , has marketed a non-abrasive powdered rubber which may be applied with safety and will remove at least surface dust and dirt . |
| 12 | That most schools give at least lip-service to the importance of this fact is obvious in the development of courses variously titled " study skills " , " library skills " , " information skills " and so on . |
| 13 | ‘ BHP should have used at least part of the money to invest in new technology and upgrade and improve its competitive standing in Australia . ’ |
| 14 | General Marshall and his colleagues in the joint chiefs of staff believed the United States must occupy at least part of Korea in order to increase American power in the postwar balance between American and Soviet interests in the Far East . |
| 15 | Could not private investment fill at least part of the gap ? |
| 16 | I know at least mum . |
| 17 | You will also need to use at least part of this milk with your cereal breakfasts . |
| 18 | You may prefer to pay more for a course geared specifically to the needs of health visitors rather than something more general , and may be able to recoup at least part of the costs of attending a course from your local continuing education budget . |
| 19 | If we wish to know why hysteria is now so rare and why modern forms of psychopathology in general seem so often removed from their classical , nineteenth and early twentieth-century manifestations , we may now be in a position to give at least part of the answer . |
| 20 | But from the very fact that a religious authority who was comparable with the Pope , and for whose position no precedent seems to have existed in the Ottoman state except , perhaps , in its earliest , almost legendary days , appears on the scene relatively suddenly in the time of Murad II , it seems possible to deduce at least part of the reason for the foundation of the institution . |
| 21 | The rationale for retaining at least part of these industries as single units is that they are ‘ natural monopolies ’ with subadditive costs , especially where networks are concerned . |
| 22 | This involves a per unit price below average cost , plus a lump sum fee for the right to consume , which is of sufficient size to ensure at least breakeven . |
| 23 | The best one is a digitally produced effect using a digital delay line having at least 16-bit resolution . |
| 24 | Almost a quarter of a random sample of adults dying in 1987 had spent at least part of the last year of their lives in a residential or nursing home ; one in eight spent all of that year in one . |
| 25 | A further 9 per cent of the people who died spent at least part of the last twelve months of their lives in such homes ; so almost a quarter , 23 per cent , were in residential homes at some stage in the last year of their lives . |
| 26 | AGF may eventually gain at least part of Fondiaria 's stake . |
| 27 | The turn of the century saw at least part of the site turned over to saw milling , but by 1911 Gladman and Co , piano makers , were there . |
| 28 | The programme should also have included a Bill to deal with the crisis in our prisons , by implementing at least part of Lord Justice Woolf 's report . |
| 29 | ‘ I wish I could walk at least part of it , ’ she said wistfully . |
| 30 | However , even in these cases , it is found that there exist at least distribution valued singularities just at these points . |