Example sentences of "at least the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Courtney said he hoped that at least the factual part of the document would be made public . |
| 2 | At least the 6-hour time limit narrows the mind . |
| 3 | They tended to cast doubt on the objective nature of the atonement — at least the Catholic scholastics and Reformers had held on to that — stressing instead the subjective changes wrought in mankind by Christ 's sacrifice ( such as a growth in God-consciousness or moral transformation ) . |
| 4 | The idea that there was a golden age of family obligations in the past was born out of a desire to ensure that increasing numbers of elderly people ( and other dependent groups ) in the population did not become too heavy a burden financially upon the wealthier classes ; hence the anxieties about whether working-class people had an adequate sense of ‘ filial affection ’ , which can be documented from at least the nineteenth century . |
| 5 | Although industrialization has tended to eliminate traditional crafts , the non-agricultural element of the rural economy has increased in importance since at least the nineteenth century . |
| 6 | Hodgson 's brewery , whose tap room in the Bow Road bore the name Bombay Grab , remained pre-eminent in the India beer trade until at least the 1820s . |
| 7 | At least the Japanese show conclusively that the notion of continual cost reduction is not redundant , as some critics of the learning-experience-curve phenomenon seem to suggest . |
| 8 | From 1943 onwards , Los Angeles began to experience increasingly frequent episodes of a brownish , hazy , irritating and altogether mysterious new kind of air pollution that was more persistent than , and quite different from , the instances of smoky fog which had troubled major urban centres from at least the mid 1800s onwards ( Krier and Ursin , 1977 ) . |
| 9 | The next stop is to try and determine the best arrangement of the components on the board , and it often helps if at least the major parts ( large transformers , relays etc. ) are to hand so that the designer can visualise the arrangement of the components . |
| 10 | Most Soviet citizens , however , appeared to have remained loyal to their native language in their domestic and family life , and there was little sign of the disappearance of at least the major Soviet languages , most of which were still spoken by the great majority of the nationalities in question ( the 1979 census found that 62 per cent of non-Russians were fluent in that language , but that 93 per cent of the population identified their national language as their native one ; the 1989 census found that the reported level of knowledge of Russian had actually fallen among at least two national groups , the Uzbeks and Lithuanians ) . |
| 11 | , Thomas ( d. c. 1276 ) , revolutionary mayor of London 1263–5 , was a draper with considerable property in the city , whose family had been part of its aldermanic ruling class since at least the 1220s . |
| 12 | Many ministers , the most famous of whom were J. Guinness Rogers and A. M. Fairbairn , wrote in the leading monthlies , at least the Liberal ones , and for many years the Congregational minister of Union Chapel , Islington , Henry Allon , edited the much respected British Quarterly Review . |
| 13 | At least the evergreen Granada is good value in this company . |
| 14 | Such reclining figures , clasping either a cornucopia or an urn ( and sometimes both ) , date back to at least the mid-sixteenth century ( for example at the Villa Lante at Bagnaia in Italy ) and were a commonplace in late seventeenth-century Baroque gardens ( for example at Vaux-le-Vicomte , Versailles and Het Loo ) . |
| 15 | By the time of the French revolution three main classes of diplomat were generally recognised : the ambassador , with or without the title of " extraordinary " ; the envoy or envoy extraordinary , often with the additional designation of " minister plenipotentiary " ; and the resident , or now more commonly minister resident ( the term " minister " as a somewhat vague diplomatic title went back to at least the mid-sixteenth century ) . |
| 16 | However , a steady increase in new cases among heterosexuals would carry on for at least the medium term . |
| 17 | Like the Zande they live in the southern Sudan and have been studied by Evans-Pritchard , so that at least the personal equation can be held constant in comparisons between these two cultures . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | At least the disgusting taste of mint concentrated his mind . |
| 20 | At least the poor bloody infantry in the trenches during the First World War did n't have to put up with that . |
| 21 | At least the upper parts of this sequence could , by analogy with the Alum Shale of the Baltic , be considered worth investigation for possible oil source rocks . |
| 22 | At least the lost afternoon guaranteed a certain spontaneity . |
| 23 | It dates back to at least the fifth century BC and is still carried out today at the roadside in parts of Asia . |
| 24 | In Spain it was distorted and cut short by the crisis of 1789 and the French invasion of 1808 , but not before it had modified , if not the traditional structure of society , at least the traditional attitudes . |
| 25 | At least the European Communities Act , if I remember rightly , had been the subject of a debate or two . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | But we need to have a degree of common ownership of at least the broad parameters of what the world may look like , and we then seek the whole time to simplify down and down and down . |
| 28 | One may anticipate the conclusions of the following discussion of the fifteenth-century Muftilik by saying that while both traditions are less than satisfactory and while , in the present state of knowledge , there are questions of considerable importance which remain unresolved , on the particular point of the origins of the institution there is some evidence to support at least the broad outlines of the Mustakimzade tradition , however vexed the details may be ; whereas , on the other hand , not only is there a lack of positive evidence to support the Katib Celebi tradition , there is also a certain weight of evidence , largely of a negative nature , against it . |
| 29 | What is envisaged is that at least the above six mentioned countries will form a currency union by the end of the decade , while the remaining EC countries enter into an EMS type relationship with the union until they have converged sufficiently to become union members . |
| 30 | If modernization means the differentiation of fields , postmodernization means at least the partial collapse of some fields into other fields . |