Example sentences of "[coord] at [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes he thought that he needed to feel like a woman , a younger woman or at least The Other Woman ; certainly he needed to feel like The Young Man . |
| 2 | I 'll reiterate here that the complexity — or at least the perceived complexity — of the Alpha 's operation could limit its market as far as first time buyers go . |
| 3 | A well-established approach denies that the public interest is the relevant standard , or at least the primary standard , by which company law should be assessed . |
| 4 | If I could just get a role doing some of the falls in the action replays , say , I could save him from horrible injury , or at least the odd booking . |
| 5 | He found it in Protestantism , or at least the Calvinist version of it . |
| 6 | Because of the threat which " Communism " , or at least the Soviet Union , is believed to pose to " the free world " , we still need to defend democracy ( it is argued ) , but in real , military and ideological terms , not in theory . |
| 7 | One way to avoid such discrimination — or at least the legal grounds for it — is to supply a lawyer 's opinion to the effect each edition is libel-free . |
| 8 | Such banquets are portrayed for us on the Bayeux Tapestry , or at least the early stages of them . |
| 9 | But for visitors and residents at Weston-super-Mare , and its neighbours , Burnham-on-Sea and Clevedon , the flags are an assurance that all is well with the world , or at least the sandy bit between the town and the sea , for they show that the beaches meet European standards of cleanliness that seem to elude their bigger rivals . |
| 10 | Two or three times a week after that Bridhe , now alert for her , would notice Luch , or at least the slight bulge in the tapestry where she hid . |
| 11 | In 1867 Newman Hall visited America , or at least the northern states , where he was assured a warm welcome because of his support of the North during the recent war . |
| 12 | Since I was living with the most out gay man I know , I was n't short of an opinion on anything to do with anything in faggotdom , or at least the social side of it . |
| 13 | If the war brought them more into line with popular feeling , then it was not because they had changed , but because popular opinion ( or at least the Liberal-Labour part of it ) had at last seen the light . |
| 14 | This unique combination led to the rediscovery of the VistaVision process , or at least the old cameras used to achieve it , in the 1970s and '80s as a valuable tool for the SFX cameraman . |
| 15 | A chapter on homebuilt organisations around the world is instructive , not least to learn that whilst amateur-built aircraft have had official blessing ( or at least the blind eye treatment ) in many Eastern Bloc countries for a decade or more , getting approval to fly a homebuilt in Italy and Germany has been a hard-won struggle against obstinate bureaucracy . |
| 16 | Even more amazing is how they managed to arrive at just the right place , and at just the right day and hour required , when not even Charles himself knew where he and his men would be . |
| 17 | The unpredictable English weather meant that delivering the leaves at the right time and at exactly the right stage of development for silkworms to thrive on them was impossible . |
| 18 | In short , it appears that temperature/time relationships may not have been unfavourable for hydrocarbon generation and preservations in the Variscan foreland and at least the leading thrust sheet , warranting attention to the availability of source rocks , reservoir rocks , cap rocks , and structures . |
| 19 | The dorsal arm plates are fan shaped and at least the proximal ones are usually contiguous . |
| 20 | But perhaps it was just as well , and at least the physical toll the climb was taking had , temporarily at least , driven other sensations from her body . |
| 21 | All shipping in the area had been alerted when they went missing , and at 3.30pm the following day the SS Nimoda came across them , and they were taken aboard . |
| 22 | The Hurricanes dived on them , but at once the escorting fighters were on their tails ; at least two ‘ convoys ’ were noted of Ju87 , Hurricane , Bf109E in line astern , all firing . |
| 23 | But that , that 's just one little part of it but and because there 's been a lot of quite worldwide travel of young people , not perhaps on a massive scale , but at least the young people of each country are more thinking more of them |
| 24 | ( 2 ) Provide the Chairman with a note for each item of business , giving him the previous history of the discussion and indicating not the decision but at least the possible decisions that might emerge from the current meeting . |
| 25 | It may be that it is those least disposed to commit suicide who join the cult in the first place , but at least the systematic comparison of variables has led to the question being raised . |
| 26 | But at least the new developments should ease the diplomatic impasse that has kept relations between Japan and the Soviet Union frozen for 46 years . |
| 27 | But at least the new examination seems to offer greater scope for teachers to develop programmes of work in which the internal and external assessments can be seen by the pupils to be interrelated in a more purposeful way . |
| 28 | the same can not be said today but at least the other conditions still apply . |
| 29 | Their regimes may have been impoverished by the emphasis on security and restrictions on movement within the prison , but at least the physical settings avoided the squalor and overcrowding which worsened in the local prisons . |
| 30 | Like SuperCalc these are n't pictorial in content , but at least the shadowed button look makes them appear as if you should click then with a mouse — which is more than can be said for either of the other two packages . |