Example sentences of "[verb] to at least [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But once families are committed to at least one child and all the disruptions of career and household which inevitably follow , they are then inclined to have the second child that most expect , and are expected , to produce . |
| 2 | Instead he became a prolific journalist , contributing to at least four daily newspapers , as well as several provincial weeklies ; and for a time he assisted Thomas Hansard [ q.v. ] in publishing parliamentary reports . |
| 3 | Their relationship became so serious that , according to at least one account , he asked her to marry him . |
| 4 | After all , Frankish nobles were trained from youth , as Charles had been , to ride and to wield weapons , through hunting , wargames , and fights over property and honour in which , according to at least one contemporary canon lawyer 's opinion , killing was no sin . |
| 5 | According to at least some physicists , life can be reduced to a matter of information-processing . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , Senada and the children moved to at least three successive refugee camps to escape the fighting , and survived almost exclusively on a diet of tinned fish . |
| 7 | In total , 27 mothers were interested in taking part in the group and came to at least one session . |
| 8 | This case supports the right of a third party to challenge the conclusion of a treaty inconsistent with obligations owed to at least one of the treaty parties by another treaty . |
| 9 | If I was sure I was going to at least 10 home matches next season Id get a kop season ticket straight away ! |
| 10 | If you are under eighteen you could join a pony club , which involves you going to at least two meetings a year . |
| 11 | He would have been better still , however , to have decided differently , and to have agreed to at least some of the cases being re-examined for possible pardon . |
| 12 | The position of Captain 's companion had been offered to at least four people before Henslow suggested Darwin as a possibility . |
| 13 | By 1975 , over 100 tonnes of porpoise meat was being sold in Peruvian fish markets , amounting to at least 2000 animals killed each year . |
| 14 | However , recent research ( by Riley and Vennard , 1999 , but see also Bottoms and McClean , 1976 ) has established that a significant proportion of such cases ( amounting to at least 40 per cent ) are committed at the discretion of the magistrates . |
| 15 | The four securities houses — together with some smaller firms — admitted making compensation payments to corporate clients amounting to at least 128,300 million yen ( about US$900 million ) . |
| 16 | Most street sellers will drop to at least half price if you shout and wave as much as them . |
| 17 | It seems clear that , no matter how those at risk may be identified and quantified , social workers will , in practice , increasingly want to ensure that their actions are directed by legislative requirements , both as protection for themselves and as a means of pointing to at least some external criteria for the validity of the protective actions taken in respect of children . |
| 18 | In the 1980s in a household survey , thirty adults in 1,000 admitted to problems with drink and five in 1,000 are known to at least one agency as having problems associated with drinking . |
| 19 | He was presumably known to at least some of his fellow members — who themselves became foundation members of the Veterinary College — in particular the Duke of Northumberland , first president of the College ; Granville Penn , active in the establishment of the College , who became a member of the Society of Arts in 1788 and was in 1791 a steward ; the Earl of Morton ( one of Vial 's patrons ) ; Thomas Pitt FSA , subsequently to be one of the most assiduous attenders of meetings of the College governors , and last , but not least , Arthur Young , a member of the Society of Arts since 1769 . |
| 20 | Any relationship is necessarily linked to at least one entity . |
| 21 | In all , we are probably exposed to at least two hundred different synthetic chemicals every day — and some people will encounter many more . |
| 22 | With Wendy I went to at least one of the famous lunchtime concerts organised by Dame Myra Hess at the National Gallery . |
| 23 | Most of the children went to at least ten schools , though Eva only managed to notch up eight . |
| 24 | Defence orders would be cut to at least half the 1991 rates , and state investment would be reduced by seven- or eight-fold . |
| 25 | To answer this question it is possible to refer to at least two areas of discussion . |
| 26 | Gregory himself seems to refer to at least two : in addition to that in which he thought Clovis had been converted , he mentions a battle at Tolbiac or Zülpich where Sigibert , king of the Ripuarian Franks , was wounded . |
| 27 | It may loosely be judged to refer to at least some of the works of literature , art , philosophy , history and biography . |
| 28 | Party members were now obliged to subscribe to at least one party newspaper . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , we spoke to at least half a dozen members of his firm and none of them knows anything about a shipment of cocaine , ’ Hitch announced . |
| 30 | If we understand ‘ legislative ’ and ‘ adjudicative ’ broadly , so the objection continues , all practical authorities belong to at least one of these kinds . |