Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] least [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or at least all of my family . ’ |
| 2 | A widespread view amongst local law societies was that specific approval of accounting systems and satisfactory evidence of compliance with the rules should be required from all firms , or at least all new firms . |
| 3 | However , some sole practitioners indicated that they might accept the principle of prior approval if it were extended to all firms or at least all new firms in the process of setting up . |
| 4 | Cicciolina seems to capture — articulate , as Koons would say — the essence of sexual desire , or at least that intense moment before the body abandons itself to passion . |
| 5 | Or at least that is the ambition of the industrial development commission of a small Pennsylvania steel town . |
| 6 | Or at least that is why reliance on a voluntary obligation is justified reliance , which the person having the obligation has to respect . |
| 7 | Or at least that is the argument of Part Four . |
| 8 | Sometimes , we are forced to be members of one group rather than another ; in the British colony , Kenyans were ill those inhabitants excluded by the British from a share in political and administrative power , or at least that was the appearance . |
| 9 | There is The Times front page of 16 November 1976 , on which I announce that ‘ the Lebanese civil war — or at least that stage of the conflict that cost … almost 40,000 lives — came to an end this morning when a Syrian army , 6,000 strong and accompanied by hundreds of tanks and heavy armoured vehicles , occupied the entire city of Beirut . ’ |
| 10 | Or at least that 's their story . |
| 11 | Or at least that was what the smooth-skulled guide said when Chesarynth asked why they could n't land closer . |
| 12 | It was one of those brilliantly simple ideas people always wish they had had themselves , and believe that somehow they could have had ; no need to incur any extra expense or make any more sizes than anybody else , or necessarily to distinguish one 's product in other way , yet just by the idea one has a potential market of half the jeans-buying public , or at least that proportion of it which has always felt that they are somehow perpetually between the usual sizes . |
| 13 | Or at least that may dangerous people thought it did . |
| 14 | Er but of course you 've got to fund that yourself , or at least that 's what most people think . |
| 15 | It is not surprising that there were many attracted to the idea that scientific knowledge was the only true kind , or at least that reasoning like that used in the sciences could solve all human problems . |
| 16 | The passages from Mank Ali and Ata'i concerning Abdulfettah do suggest , however , that there may well have been some connection between the pairs of concepts and that there is some basis for assuming that the " interior " referred to is the three cities of Istanbul , Edirne and Bursa ( and environs ) and the " exterior " the rest of the empire or at least that part of it in which the learned hierarchy operated . |
| 17 | and erm he would take er legal action or at least that was the idea , we hardly ever got any erm any change out of the Le Legal Department and as often as not it was written off . |
| 18 | Or at least that was the way it seemed . |
| 19 | Some of their ideas were shown to work ; the counter-inflation programme ( or at least that part of it which closed the inflationary gap from the fiscal end ) was worked out by them and was a successful contrast to the experience of World War I. Yet by itself the explanation is inadequate . |
| 20 | The man had gone to sleep , or at least that was what Mahmoud suspected , and that , to Mahmoud , was an even harder thing to admit than that he had not posted a man in the first place . |
| 21 | ( a ) the cancellation of the whole of the issued and paid-up share capital of the target company ( or at least that part of the share capital not already owned by the bidder ) ; this will be effected by a reduction of share capital ; |
| 22 | The emphasis is therefore on language as social process above all else ; or at least that is what Lee suggests . |
| 23 | ‘ I found you do your growing up in your thirties and your forties are your teenage years - or at least that 's the way I look at it . |
| 24 | The ‘ bad mood ’ syndrome brought on by an offensive odour and the resulting symptoms of annoyance can lead to antisocial behaviour ; relationships with family , friends and others become strained , the persons most affected perhaps blaming other members of the family for the position in which they find themselves and which they consider intolerable , leading in extreme cases to marriage problems or at least much unhappiness . |
| 25 | After Caldwell Lord Roskill in Seymour spoke of a very high risk of death , but he said that in the context of manslaughter caused by a car ( " motor manslaughter " ) in order to distinguish that offence from causing death by reckless driving , or at least such is the construction put on his words in Kong Cheuk Kwan v R , and Lord Roskill did uphold the trial judge 's direction which included a reference to an obvious and serious risk of physical injury . |
| 26 | The bolt-rig generally incorporates a hair-rig , or at least some kind of rig that entails the exposure of most of the hook point and gape . |
| 27 | The culprit is the G string slot , which has been cut away at too sharp an angle , leaving the string supported on a tiny knife-edge ; this slot will wear much faster than the others , which will eventually call for a premature nut replacement , or at least some fancy manoeuvring with superglue and baking soda . |
| 28 | Venus is also in the heart centre of your chart between February and June — a sign if ever there was of romance , or at least some heady company . |
| 29 | In an interesting study of recent US college writing handbooks ( which are especially good indicators of changing standards since they are revised extremely frequently ) Sharon Zuber demonstrates that the authors of these influential texts have moved from noting feminist objections to generic he , to suggesting nonsexist language as an option writers might consider , to recommending it — or at least some forms of it — as a norm . |
| 30 | Or at least some of it , in beta , right now , and the rest later in the year ( in beta again ) . |