Example sentences of "[v-ing] at least the " in BNC.

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1 Authorisation is in the hands of the Department of Trade and Industry and depends upon a trust 's deed meeting at least the following conditions :
2 Finally , Ebussu'ud Efendi also stipulated the number of students to whom each entitled office-holder in the learned profession might grant and though the numbers which he fixed are not reported , figures have been given above which comprise a partial list for the of 959 and 963 , while Ata'i gives another partial list for the of 973 , in which the kazaskers were each permitted to invest ten students as " the kadis of the three cities ' i.e. those of Istanbul , Edirne and Bursa ) five each , and " the other kadis of the throne " a term of uncertain application , but almost certainly comprising at least the other kadis mentioned in the decree of 963 ) three each : the figures for the kazaskers at least , and probably the others as well , applied down to Ata'i 's own day .
3 There seems to have been very little , if any , educational advantage in this elaboration , but there certainly was an advantage , in a profession which had become vastly overcrowded , of lengthening the period of education and , when one had finally become a muderris , of providing at least the illusion of advancement by the introduction of a number of grades which were unnecessary except in bureaucratic terms .
4 They envisaged the aircraft as having at least the capacity of the Dakota , but the robustness and short take-off and landing ( STOL ) capabilities of their DHC-2 Beaver and DHC-3 Otter .
5 He figures Sun must be very disappointed and frustrated at not having at least the 50s .
6 This does not mean however that some valuations are not more right than others ; appreciating at least the following practical points will help make sure that our valuations are ‘ more right ’ than not :
7 They lack the remote aspirations of human beings for which , presumably , a linguistic grasp of categories involving at least the present and future would be necessary .
8 Although scarcely under challenge from other national groups , Russians made up a steadily diminishing proportion of the total population over the postwar period and the Russian Republic included many of the Soviet Union 's poorest farmland and most dismal cities , creating at least the impression that it was subsidising developments in more prosperous non-Russian areas .
9 McHale has been told that he must put together a side capable of reaching at least the play-offs next season .
10 The patients studied had active ulcerative colitis affecting at least the left side of the colon .
11 By the end of the 1960s , most comprehensive schools were offering at least the core of a common curriculum to most of the pupils in Year One .
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