Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] at least " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the transactions are found to be lawful and enforceable and interest rates remain high , the council stands to lose at least £69.1 million - the estimated negative value of its portfolio in February . |
| 2 | Every local and family historian needs to acquire at least a working knowledge of the history of religious dissent in his selected region and a familiarity with the national background . |
| 3 | ITV and Scottish Television have a contract for TV coverage , but the project needs to attract at least £15m in sponsorship and advertising of various kinds . |
| 4 | Suppose we get 204 , giving herd B ; the second of the systematic sample will be 204 + 293 = 497 which gives herd F. By this means we always obtain two different primaries unless one of the primaries accounts for more than half the secondaries , in which case that primary has to appear at least once . |
| 5 | To maintain satisfactory progress , a part-time student has to pass at least one course each year . |
| 6 | The publisher , traditionally , needs to sell at least a thousand copies of that to be worth even advertising it , but this means that you can print an extra copy whenever you want and this then implies perhaps and even larger and larger growth and more and more specialised information , which only computers can manage , and one hesitates to work out where the end of all this is . |
| 7 | The publisher , traditionally , needs to sell at least a thousand copies of that to be worth even advertising it , but this means that you can print an extra copy whenever you want and this then implies and even larger and larger growth in more and more specialised information which only computers can manage , and one hesitates to work out where the end of all this is . |
| 8 | Anyway , ’ he told her , ‘ anyone who learns to sail has to experience at least one ducking . |
| 9 | Mr Gandhi needs to win at least 200 seats nationally to be reasonably certain of being called on to form the next government . |
| 10 | Now , by Planck 's quantum hypothesis , one can not use an arbitrarily small amount of light ; one has to use at least one quantum . |
| 11 | Whereas the inexperienced glider pilot needs to fly at least once a month to be safe , more experienced pilots can go much longer without always becoming badly out of practice . |
| 12 | An officer dealing with a straightforward case of theft has to complete at least twenty documents as well as laboriously transcribe tapes of interviews . |
| 13 | Mummy calls them his worshippers — he has to have at least one of them around . ’ |
| 14 | The Government needs to have at least one member in a key senior position who understands the problems of women , and especially working women . |
| 15 | In particular , given the ambiguity of economic analysis , policy has to identify rules or presumptions to indicate the boundaries between acceptable and unacceptable market conduct and structure , but it has to offer at least some scope for the parties involved in such cases to argue countervailing efficiency benefits . |
| 16 | These rates are likely to be at least matched in the 1990s when , between 1987–8 and 1992–3 , the corporation plans to invest at least £600 million — half through land sales and half through central grant ( LDDC , 1987 ) . |
| 17 | The gel retardation assay is a rapid method which allows to compare at least semi-quantitatively the affinity of RNA polymerases for different promoters in the presence of heparin . |
| 18 | In four years , he has grown from 16 staff to 40 , and plans to add at least 10 a year for the next three years . |
| 19 | Their cause for concern ; the announcement on Tuesday by Transport Secretary John MacGregor that he intends to transfer at least half the fund 's assets to the Treasury . |
| 20 | ( c ) where a recognised body ceases to have at least one shareholder who is able to exercise voting rights in respect of at least one share . |
| 21 | DRTF1/E2F thus appears to contain at least two sequence-specific DNA-binding proteins . |
| 22 | Every offering seems to contain at least four separate songs — so there 's rarely any danger of things descending into the kind of tedium often purveyed by dreadlocked squat-dwellers . |
| 23 | The association between the daughter 's rejection and the mother 's disability appears to afford at least circumstantial evidence that relationships deteriorate as a consequence of the burdens of tending . |
| 24 | It is to be admitted that any particular conscious episode , in the moment of experiencing of it , seems to consist at least largely in but one thing — as , say , when the address " 4 Keats Grove " comes to mind . |
| 25 | Bill the dog always seems to walk at least twice as far as I do , running ahead for a while and coming back to check that I 'm following before he dives down a hole after rabbits that he never catches . |
| 26 | It 'll never rank with the French Riviera , but this council video aims to persuade at least a few people that Swindon 's the place to be next summer . |
| 27 | These conditions have fostered a ‘ pick-and-choose ’ or ‘ supermarket ’ approach to sentencing on the part of the courts which neither Parliament nor the Appeal Courts have until recently sought to discourage , though the Criminal Justice Act 1991 ( see below , page 107 ) appears to herald at least a partial break with that tradition . |
| 28 | Teri Roose aims to stock at least one piece from each of the 34 members , more from most , and a changing exhibition in the front of the shop for just one . |
| 29 | HP seems to have at least a couple of options : an immediate Thunderbird response , levelling the playing field with Sun right now — with ships in October — or a big splash in the Autumn , with immediate deliveries . |
| 30 | The London Road End always seems to have at least one organizer , and usually two . |