Example sentences of "[adv prt] at [adv] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the Cabriolet 's top is hollow down at least as far as the bass E string , and I suspect a little further . |
| 2 | This goes back at least as far as Aristotle . |
| 3 | Ideas relating the folds and faults expressed in the Mesozoic cover of southern England to the underlying basement structure go back at least as far as Godwin-Austen ( 1856 ) , but have gradually become more firmly based . |
| 4 | But dégorgement dates back at least as far as Dom Pérignon , who we know kept bottles stored , neck downward , in a bed of sand in order to encourage the sediment to drift down to the base of the cork . |
| 5 | The idea that criminality is the outcome of organic disorder or disease goes back at least as far as Lombroso , who associated crime with epilepsy . |
| 6 | That unhinging extended back at least as far as the Japanese attack on the American fleet at Pearl Harbor in December 1941 , a crisis which allowed Franklin Roosevelt finally to break free from the congressional restraints on executive action that had been operative in the inter war period . |
| 7 | Of course , the sense of the danger to English studies from viewing literary texts as social , historical , or cultural " documents " reached back at least as far as Newbolt , and every subsequent suggestion that texts be used in such a way rekindled related anxieties . |
| 8 | Official efforts to protect the cultivator against an oppressive lord went back at least as far as legislation by the Emperor Leopold I in 1680 ; and in many ways Maria Theresa showed a truer concern for her peasant subjects than her son was ever to do . |
| 9 | Water-powered fulling mills were not new ; indeed they go back at least as far as the thirteenth century . |
| 10 | The concept goes back at least as far as 1877 when Jessel MR stated in Winn v Bull [ 1877 ] 7 Ch 29 that " where you have a proposal or agreement made in writing expressed to be subject to a formal contract being prepared , it means what it says ; it is subject to and is dependent upon a formal contract being prepared . " |