Example sentences of "[pers pn] [is] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is a wooden ship , not unlike the old clippers we used to run for the grain trade before World War I , but she is at least a century older . |
| 2 | Is there anything else that I can do for her cos she says she is in quite a lot of discomfort at the moment . |
| 3 | That means it 's at least a year old |
| 4 | Like this it is at once a moment of knowledge ( " to understand reality is to see and understand things in their connectedness and their interpretation , one to the other " ) and moment of praxis ( synthesis ) whose material embodiment is the process of modelling ( forming : here both in terms of cognitive modelling , including the modeling of meaning and the extension of this modelling , with all its reciprocal interactions ) . |
| 5 | It is at once an anthology of selected short stories and extracts of narratives often Afro-American women writers over 100 years ; a scholarly treatise and critique of their work ; and a highly politicized and womanist questioning of the reasons for their relative obscurity up until the recent ’ renaissance ’ in Black women 's writing . |
| 6 | Cole had written ‘ … it is at least a half-truth that the measure of control he ( the worker ) will have will vary inversely to the total number of votes , so in the workshop the control of the individual will be real in most cases only if the workshop is small , unless , as in the coal mine , only the simplest and most uniform questions have , as a rule , to be decided ’ ( Cole , 1917 , p. 233 ) . |
| 7 | If that is so , it is at least a hell of their own making , in which they can be gloriously themselves . |
| 8 | All one can say at present is that though the process is difficult , time-consuming , and at times very unsatisfying , it is at least an improvement over those processes we have followed in the past . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm a firm believer in breastfeeding and intend to feed Jake until he 's at least a year old but he has a bottle of formula milk when I 'm out in the evening and drinks from a spouted cup at mealtimes — usually pure juice because there 's no added sugar . ’ |