Example sentences of "or at [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have already cast some doubt on point ( b ) , or at least on the political effects which Marx assumed would be consequent on the concentration of labour ( Chapter 1 ) , while in the discussion of planning I argued that although point ( a ) may be broadly accepted it is by no means unproblematic , particularly given the fact that large-scale enterprises increasingly straddle national boundaries . |
| 2 | Ideally consultation with advisory or special teachers should be started before a pupil is accepted into the class , or at least at the very beginning of term , so that the provision of special equipment and materials can be organised . |
| 3 | TCCB , known in the past to have administered punishment for long-past ‘ sins ’ , or at least for the disreputable later exposure of them , will have to decide whether Beefy 's tale of being ‘ extremely inebriated ’ in Perth five years ago , when he forgot his bat and had to go back for it before smashing 48 off Western Australia , is an indictable offence . |
| 4 | A brother of this house , or at least of the Benedictine Order . |
| 5 | Pam was there from the beginning , or at least from the first day of school . |
| 6 | This result , Burmester suggests , indicates that the coatings were applied using lacquer ‘ from one pot ’ or at least from the same tree . |
| 7 | So , art history only begins after the death of the work , but as long as the work lives , or at least in the first fifty years of its life , it communicates with people living in the same period who have accepted it or rejected it and who have talked about it . |
| 8 | If at all possible , answer these questions in the first sentence of the release or at least in the first paragraph . |
| 9 | If we must have ‘ classics ’ let us accept James Steel Smith 's definition of a book that ‘ provides some special imaginative experience which the child is not likely to get from other sources — or at least in the same degree of intensity — and which ‘ it would be a shame for him to miss ’ ( 1967 , p. 121 ) . |