Example sentences of "and [verb] at [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Backed by the army , the administration was generally able to keep a semblance of order , to crush peasant insubordination , and to gather at least a proportion of the taxes decreed . |
| 2 | VMS also offers the best clustering facilities and host functionality , and has at least a measure of openness with the addition of VMS Posix compliance . |
| 3 | It would apply to new plants almost immediately , while new licenses for existing plants would have to be sought within 10 years , and renewed at least every decade to take account of advances in pollution control technology . |
| 4 | Yeah but if it 's going to be shown to ultimately thousands of people and to last at least a couple of years , we should invest in it . |
| 5 | It was an unsystematic syncretism which was particularly successful in Italy ( Etruria and Rome ) , left its mark on Garthage , Syria and Egypt , was unsuccessful in Judaea , rather insignificant in Mesopotamla , and affected at least the iconography , if not the substance , of Indian religion through Gandhara art . |
| 6 | This reduction of demand to a tow level maximized the number of children who could proceed without assistance , and offered at least the illusion of motivation through enjoyment . |
| 7 | Words and names , as we all know from everyday experience , possess magical power : naming and identifying experiences and things imposes some degree of control over them and gives at least the illusion of bringing them within our power . |
| 8 | But even then we divided up the list and had at least an aisle between us . |
| 9 | The Turks are particularly skilled at copying all manner of goods , and the young RAOC Supply Specialist Corporal visited six Bedford suppliers in the local town , and drank at least a gallon of cif , before he was satisfied that he was buying genuine Bedford parts ! |
| 10 | Once there , Ursula poured more gin than tonic into a tumbler and drank at least a quarter of it in one gulp . |
| 11 | Corbetts , if you must , but the new bagging fashion is to find mountains that only the cognoscenti know and take at least a day 's walk to get into . |