Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] at least some " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first few weeks always included a number of experiences designed to undo at least some of the damage done to sensible language learning by our schools and universities . |
| 2 | In a development that is expected to have at least some impact on the current jockeying for positions between the Unix factions , a 200-person UK software engineering firm , Praxis Systems plc , Bath , has now completed an evaluation ANDF installer for the Sun Microsystems Inc Sparc , which it says , ‘ exceeded the original performance targets . ’ |
| 3 | In particular , given the ambiguity of economic analysis , policy has to identify rules or presumptions to indicate the boundaries between acceptable and unacceptable market conduct and structure , but it has to offer at least some scope for the parties involved in such cases to argue countervailing efficiency benefits . |
| 4 | A director will also be expected to undertake at least some administrative duties . |
| 5 | The Israeli-Syrian track got off to the fastest start last year , when the new Rabin government promised to trade at least some of the Golan Heights for peace . |
| 6 | I do not rule out a Labour government , pinned down by a narrow majority , seeking to enact at least some of its social legislation through a supportive EC . |
| 7 | I happen to like at least some pictures by Mondrian : you may respond to them by asking why anyone should get paid for drawing coloured squares . |
| 8 | HOW , the unit trust companies asked , can investors be persuaded to keep at least some of their capital in their funds rather than the traditional haven of the building society ? |
| 9 | There may be a restrictiveness in the range of cultural structures illuminated , but attempting to determine at least some of the cultural webs which emerged during the Renaissance and trying to discover why they were spun indicates the dynamism of cultural representation . |
| 10 | There are other potential imports which are less apparent ; mercury , for instance , was used to gild at least some of the metalwork in England at this time ( Oddy 1980 ) . |
| 11 | Now all the larger ones were beginning to have at least some capacity of this kind . |
| 12 | He also justified the £90,000 initial payment made to Mr Michels : ‘ When a plc — and one widely understood to have at least some problems — needs to attract a high-flier from a perfectly secure position with another plc , a joining fee of this sort is not in the least unusual . ’ |
| 13 | Then decide what positive action you could take to achieve at least some of these goals , without neglecting home responsibilities . |
| 14 | He believes that an increasing number of vehicle and equipment makers who currently build their own engines will be forced to buy at least some of what they need from independents like Perkins . |
| 15 | The caprice and incompetence of the bureaucracy , the arbitrary administration of justice , the seemingly ubiquitous police could not fail to affront at least some among an élite increasingly conscious of their own dignity . |
| 16 | - Nigel Lawson , Chancellor of the Exchequer ‘ Politicians are poor prophets , but the unlucky creatures have to try , because we are elected to look at least some distance ahead . ’ |
| 17 | Jim Birrell , chief executive of the Halifax , said : ‘ They still recognise the value of trying to save at least some of their income . ’ |
| 18 | But Aliens manages to capture at least some of the tension from the original script . |
| 19 | In one sense they are the British equivalent of political advertising on American television ‘ but they differ from such advertising in three very important ways : first , PFB broadcasting is free ( although the parties have to bear at least some of the production costs — indeed , all of the production costs if they wish to use private production facilities ) ; second , the number of PEB broadcasts is fixed by agreement between broadcasters and the parties to reflect ( roughly ) the current popular standing of the parties ( in 1987 Labour , the Liberal-SDP Alliance , and the Conservatives got exactly equal time for PEBs while other parties received very much less ) ; third , the broadcasters have insisted , against the politicians ’ wishes , that PEBs be short programmes typically ten minutes long , rather than high-impact adverts of perhaps twenty or thirty seconds ' duration . |
| 20 | What seems to make this possible is the fact that information is not costless to receive or exploit , and the expertise necessary to take full advantage of spillovers can provide the wedge that innovating firms need to appropriate at least some benefits from their innovative activities . |
| 21 | Good classroom planning and organisation and an awareness of the way in which children relate to and use their surroundings can help to reduce at least some of the stresses and confusion that can arise in day-to-day work for children with sight problems . |