Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] at [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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31 One of the advantages of a religious education is the ability to identify at least the better-known texts of scripture and this was one which it needed no effort of memory to recall .
32 Generally speaking , a full desk top publishing system requires at least the following .
33 Devlin 's argument is that ‘ exploitation ’ and ‘ corruption ’ are such nebulous terms that almost any field of morality could be defined in a way to allow at least the theoretical intervention of the law .
34 HP ( hire purchase ) The term used by shoppers and many shops to describe both true hire purchase ( where the shopper is in effect hiring the goods , with an option to buy at virtually no extra cost when he has paid all the instalments , and the lender has some rights to repossess the goods as securing against default ) , and the more common credit sale .
35 The religious belief of the time requires at least a substantial part of his property to be devoted to the good of his soul .
36 We will refrain from describing the much publicised problems of the US economy , of public accounting firms in this country , and the related layoffs and hiring freezes at almost every major company — it is assumed you have already heard all that .
37 An author may expect his or her reader to have at least a general idea of when the Vikings lived , or what it feels like to be bullied , or to be able to cope with simple scientific concepts , or to know the general geography of the USA .
38 Although I have stressed that one should not keep large amounts of money at home , it is of value to have at least a small amount of emergency money carefully hidden somewhere in the house , say , £20 .
39 I 'm in the Flying Fox and I 've just spent some time hovering at just a thousand feet over Bicester and the town centre looking good there .
40 Despite problems of access , I gathered sufficient information about the physical conditions and regime in a particular central gaol to produce at least a poor imitation of John Howard .
41 Thus just one granule absorbs at least a 500th of a drop .
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