Example sentences of "[verb] at least the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The education and training of Health Care workers should include at least the possibility of working in partnership with people rather than for people , so that the experience of unlearning , deroling and relearning through which the family development nurses had to go in order to work effectively in this way with people , can be avoided . |
| 2 | Easily as such writing can , on occasion , include the narcissistic or the vacuously ludic , it has at least the capacity to be seriously — or wittily — challenging , an enabling enhancement of its readers ' vision and decisiveness . |
| 3 | Such a suggestion has at least the face validity of being consistent with the research done by Labov and others on language variation ( see Hudson 1980 : Chapter 5 for a review ) . |
| 4 | But what was the bottom income line above which recipients can be presumed to have enjoyed at least the modicum of comfort above subsistence and simple " decency " ? |
| 5 | And it was to restore order , as much as anything , that a nominally Vietnamese administration provided at least the façade of an ‘ independent ’ Vietnamese government . |
| 6 | This space , intended both to obtain the invention of new products , leading to enhanced consumption and profit , and to maintain ideological support , in response to apparent liberalism , allows at least the possibility that permitted pluralism can grow into radical dissent . |
| 7 | Would normally exclude at least the Executive Summary . |
| 8 | His best-known work , Tetbury church , Gloucestershire ( 1777–81 ) , is one of the most elegant examples of late eighteenth-century Gothic and was widely admired at the time , the poet William Mason [ q.v. ] , for example , commenting that it gave him ‘ the very highest opinion ’ of Hiorne 's ‘ Gothic taste ’ ; and his approach to Gothic design also appears to have embraced at least the rudiments of scholarship as well as its decorative appeal . |
| 9 | Expressing it would entail at least the possibility of a glimpse of happiness and fulfilment . |
| 10 | They were the citoyens who paid at least the equivalent of three days ' work in direct tax . |
| 11 | There seems to have been very little , if any , educational advantage in this elaboration , but there certainly was an advantage , in a profession which had become vastly overcrowded , of lengthening the period of education and , when one had finally become a muderris , of providing at least the illusion of advancement by the introduction of a number of grades which were unnecessary except in bureaucratic terms . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Well they 'll probably have to put at least the bone in there , it 's a bone graft . |
| 14 | With regard to the first lies my group has come to the conclusion that there is a way in which the employment development budget can be augmented to specifically reserve at least the part of the current posish provision provided by the cooperative development erm we stand by our opinion that there are ways in which that service can be more efficiently administered that this is a sensible way forward . |
| 15 | A linguistic item must in general have at least the complexity of a simple sentence to show such properties . |
| 16 | And referee trying to prize them apart , to keep at least the pretence of a fight going . |
| 17 | They envisaged the aircraft as having at least the capacity of the Dakota , but the robustness and short take-off and landing ( STOL ) capabilities of their DHC-2 Beaver and DHC-3 Otter . |
| 18 | It may well take at least the lifetime of a Parliament to put things right , but Labour will start immediately . |
| 19 | With regard to husbands voting as proxy for their wives , the government had wanted at least the wife 's written authorization to be necessary , but the deputies voted to retain the existing stipulation that the proxy voter must present the family registration book . |
| 20 | Each tag will have to hold at least the information : This will mean that the few home addresses or home buckets which have large numbers of synonyms will have to allocate a lot of space for these tags . |
| 21 | A master file record in a partially inverted file will always be required to hold at least the data on fields that are not inverted . |
| 22 | They lack the remote aspirations of human beings for which , presumably , a linguistic grasp of categories involving at least the present and future would be necessary . |
| 23 | Although scarcely under challenge from other national groups , Russians made up a steadily diminishing proportion of the total population over the postwar period and the Russian Republic included many of the Soviet Union 's poorest farmland and most dismal cities , creating at least the impression that it was subsidising developments in more prosperous non-Russian areas . |
| 24 | McHale has been told that he must put together a side capable of reaching at least the play-offs next season . |
| 25 | She thought that she could manage at least the pantomime season before her condition would show . |
| 26 | ‘ Days of deluge ’ he said , ‘ offered at least the consolation of eventual dry clothes ’ in which the walker could boast to his friends of the glories of his rambles round the fireside . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | B : There 's a yellow VW outside Sue 's house Here B 's contribution , taken literally , fails to answer A's question , and thus seems to violate at least the maxims of Quantity and Relevance . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The ‘ original ’ actually fits Taylor , Walton and Young 's argument rather better than the amended version they quote above which implies at least the possibility of poverty as a cause of ‘ rational ’ crime . |