Example sentences of "[coord] at least [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The recognition that the assumption of the effectiveness of law may turn out to be false in all or at least specific areas does not mean that all legal activity in relation to international law is worthless . |
| 2 | Or at least all of my family . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Or at least that is the ambition of the industrial development commission of a small Pennsylvania steel town . |
| 7 | Or at least that is why reliance on a voluntary obligation is justified reliance , which the person having the obligation has to respect . |
| 8 | Or at least that is the argument of Part Four . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | Or at least that 's their story . |
| 12 | Or at least that was what the smooth-skulled guide said when Chesarynth asked why they could n't land closer . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Or at least that may dangerous people thought it did . |
| 15 | Er but of course you 've got to fund that yourself , or at least that 's what most people think . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Or at least that was the way it seemed . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ( 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 ; |
| 23 | The emphasis is therefore on language as social process above all else ; or at least that is what Lee suggests . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . |
| 25 | Now , as the cold winds blow in New England , our transatlantic chums in Citizens seem to be doing a repeat act , picking up the odd dime or at least two Five Cents , Plymouth Five Cents and Boston Five Cents . |
| 26 | My mother was heaving and grunting , pushing and breathing , an hour or so away from producing , and attended by both Mrs Clamp and my father , when all three ( or at least two ; I suppose Agnes might have been too preoccupied ) heard frenzied barking and one high , awful scream . |
| 27 | Active Crohn 's disease was defined as at least one of the following : abdominal pain causing severe limitation of activity , diarrhoea ( at least 3 loose stools/day ) , weight loss of more than 2 kg in the past month , or at least two of the following laboratory abnormalities : haemoglobin <12.5 g/dl in men ( <10.5 g/dl in women ) , erythrocyte sedimentation rate >20 mm/h , serum albumin <35 g/l . |
| 28 | Section 39 Trustee Act 1925 provides that where a trustee desires to be discharged from the trust and where after his discharge there will be either a trust corporation or at least two individuals to act as trustees , then if the trustee by deed declares that he desires to be discharged and his co-trustees consent , he shall be deemed to have retired from the trust . |
| 29 | Mike Fesemeyer , a former colleague who now analyses bank shares for Nomura , says : ‘ Even in the 1970s he was perceived as a future chief executive or at least one of the bank 's fast track graduates . |
| 30 | Nor was he much impressed at the Liskeard inns of the times , or at least one : ‘ … a tavern of despair frowned amid congenial desolation ’ . |