Example sentences of "[verb] at least [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This ominous escalation of tension has come amid reports that the rail blockade of Armenia and Nagorny Karabakh by Azerbaijan — partially lifted at least in recent days — has been re-imposed after fresh violence . |
| 2 | Only if they did not show their faces , only if they kept their heads low and lived in obscure corners , could they hope to pass at least in physical safety through life . |
| 3 | The distinction has to be considered at least to some extent because only by identifying what has been done in the past can one see how deficiencies remain to be corrected in the future research agenda . |
| 4 | Whereas effects upon coastal processes have been long considered at least in qualitative terms , the significance of human activity in affecting permafrost as illustrated in Canada ( Brown , 1970 ) ; and in influencing endogenetic processes ( Coates , 1980 ) , by loading effects from dams and reservoirs , water injections , irrigation and structures , and by withdrawal effects due to groundwater , oil and gas , and mineral extraction , and by surface excavation effects have been appreciated more recently . |
| 5 | It follows that affirmative assessors must be able to discriminate at least between these two types of grief reaction . |
| 6 | Now we in the Harrogate Civic Society would like to see the rest of the district allocation reduced at least to fifty hectares which has something to do with the forecast requirement on the grounds of past take-up , and I believe it is nearer the original figure for the rest of the district floated by the county in the initial consultations before amendment was made to the allocation between Greater York and the rest of the district . |
| 7 | At the time of writing , therefore , the Electricity and Gas Directives with their very limited objectives ( as seen at least through British eyes ) are blocked by a majority led by the French and the Germans . |
| 8 | The project was initially for three years , and will therefore run at least until 1993 . |
| 9 | The season was to have started on 20 August , but it was postponed at least until 8 December . |
| 10 | If the harmonization process is to have any hope of acceleration it is essential for law schools to reduce their preoccupation with national law and their assumption of its superiority over other legal systems and to revert at least in some degree to the internationalism of medieval law teaching . |
| 11 | ‘ Then we are agreed at least upon one point , Bragg . ’ |
| 12 | About half the remainder had firm reasons for preferring cash to credit at least in this instance — because it was cheaper , or because it would avoid a chain of later bills , for example . |
| 13 | In England , some belief in angelic guardianship of national destiny survived at least until 1914 . |
| 14 | He predicts that this cancellation effect will last into the 1990s , after which the effect of CFCs will dominate at least in mid latitudes of the northern hemisphere . |
| 15 | However , at least 80 per cent of such jobs were not lost but were retained at least for another day , many in viable foreign TNCs , and it would not be logical to criticize the whole policy because of setbacks . |
| 16 | For good cooperation it is essential that the engineer has some grasp of ergonomics and that the ergonomist understands at least in general terms the technical situation in the particular industry . |
| 17 | Church growth data-gathering needs to be undertaken at least at two levels , national and local . |
| 18 | If export performance is as impressive as the right hon. and learned Gentleman suggests , when will unemployment levels return at least to those that the Government inherited in 1979 ? |
| 19 | A genuine social consciousness , motivated at least to some degree by idealism for the attainment of an educated democracy was an indispensable factor in a self-sustaining , progressive momentum for the growth of the WEA in rural areas . |
| 20 | The tenant , however , will wish to make certain that the landlord 's consent for an application for planning permission can not be unreasonably withheld at least for certain specified matters , having regard to the nature and situation of the premises . |
| 21 | There is too the fact that the original letter or document is charged with an emotion , an urgency , and an immediacy , to which the later printed record can never pretend At least for some — and probably for more than is generally imagined — the original document , letter or journal is the best door into the past . |
| 22 | But it is worth noting that though the problems this produces for validation of theory are still not resolved in the social sciences , some researchers comfort themselves with the argument that different theories may agree at least on common working definitions , while a significant body of methodological writers has learnt to love the thorny creature by arguing ( after Max Weber ) that the theory- or value-component is a crucial positive factor in social-science explanation . |
| 23 | Although I hoped that I would find that the church stood at least on one circle , I was not prepared to find that four Circles of Time passed through it ! |
| 24 | Those who employ linguistics to study literature form some kind of social network with distinct practices and a skeletal institutional framework , defined at least by overt inter-disciplinary norms . |
| 25 | Moreover , despite the apparent contradiction , casual working at least in this sector is a highly formalized system of working . |