Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] at [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Up until this time , the horse will need to have its teeth checked at least every six months . |
| 2 | If there is a single function relating arousal and memory it seems likely that it takes the inverted-U shape which is often suggested to describe the relationship between task performance and memory , with memory impairments occurring at very low or very high levels of arousal . |
| 3 | We shall also see that certain syntactic rules appear at least to be sensitive to implicature , and that implicature puts interesting constraints on what can be a possible lexical item in natural languages . |
| 4 | Third , I think there are good reasons to encourage at least one food supermarket in the city centre . |
| 5 | A particular feature of the property , the Kitchen is fitted with a superb range of light oak quality units arranged at both floor and wall level . |
| 6 | The officers estimate touts made at least £138,000 profit from fans at Wembley for the Liverpool-Sunderland final , with an average mark-up of £115 per ticket . |
| 7 | It might not be the most original football song but , given the dearth of lyrical ability on today 's terraces , it was reassuring to h ear Portsmouth 's fans singing at least something on Saturday . |
| 8 | There is a chain of mountain huts placed at roughly day-stage intervals but these do not offer meals . |
| 9 | However , about a third of compounds owned at least one mango tree , and about 10% one or more pawpaw ( papaya ) trees . |
| 10 | The federal government had proposed that enactment of its September 1991 constitutional reform proposals [ see p. 38429 ] should depend on approval by seven provinces representing at least 50 per cent of Canada 's population , and the NDP could thus have an unexpected degree of influence over their fate . |
| 11 | Masking is such a common operation that many computers provide at least one arithmetic or logical instruction which can specify a mask as well as the primary operands . |
| 12 | Enrolment in the Boston schools stands at around 36,000 , compared with 182,000 in the ILEA . |
| 13 | All parties gaining at least 10 per cent of electoral support in each of the nine regions would send an equal number of representatives to an upper house . |
| 14 | Farmers in the past , just as now have had to weigh their goods somewhere , but it seems a curious activity to carry out in the middle of a field and down through quite a number of generations ( the weights span at least two centuries ) . |
| 15 | Silverstone 's demise would be mourned by everyone in Formula One , since it offers a unique challenge as the fastest track in the world , with drivers lapping at over 150 miles per hour . |
| 16 | He says it was coincidence that all these Mr Nasty roles came at once , but admits that for a while , playing a succession of evil characters had a rather bad effect on his personal life . |
| 17 | Although wishing to increase membership , Council was anxious that direct entry was not seen as an easy option and instructed the M&R Committee to apply rigorously the requirement that the candidates demonstrate at least five years ' experience at senior level in credit management and to raise to 30 years the minimum age . |
| 18 | Marxists face at least two major problems . |
| 19 | Soon the place would sound like a factory with all the typewriters going at once . |
| 20 | You will be surprised at how differently the authors look at even an elementary subject . |
| 21 | That most schools give at least lip-service to the importance of this fact is obvious in the development of courses variously titled " study skills " , " library skills " , " information skills " and so on . |
| 22 | In the second set of interviews , by contrast , when asked , five out of six informants recall at least one grandparent . |
| 23 | dBase IV 1.5 also includes better networking tools , the ability to have up to 40 databases open at once , improved indexing , more sort-and-select options , faster searching and generally a much easier approach to generating small applications without having to write any program code . |
| 24 | It was only a whisper but Bobby heard it clearly and his eyes opened at once . |
| 25 | " No " Auntie 's eyes opened at once . |
| 26 | Four monologues begin at once , with the pace of the argument and the gaps in understanding between the four participants shown by the pregnant , rushing rows of dots . |
| 27 | Even among subjects examined at least three years after successful treatment of H pylori infection , the extent of gastric metaplasia did not change significantly . |
| 28 | The words implied at least one something else , if not more . |
| 29 | However its significance may gradually have been more fully appreciated in the 1960s as a series of papers and books provided at least four ingredients which emphasized the necessity to consider man in physical geography . |
| 30 | What is more , in the decade after 1975 employment in these two sectors grew at twice the average rate for all industry . |