Example sentences of "[prep] least an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously this is not relevant if you have a tiny galley kitchen , or a slit of corridor space , but if you can add a chair or two , or at least a couple of stools where there were none before ; and some sort of bar , or at least an enlarged counter top if you ca n't fit in a decent table , then you are well on the way to making your kitchen a more welcoming place . |
| 2 | The Unionists concluded that there was a basis for at least an interim settlement . |
| 3 | The medical , legal and local government discipline should have the facilities to enable their potentially bilingual students to study for at least an additional term in order to enhance their language and cultural knowledge to a defined level and to extend their professional expertise to accommodate the main different professional dimensions — such as Islamic matrimonial law and sickle cell anaemia . |
| 4 | Minimum requirements for run-time systems are a standard Stride board and renderer hosted by at least an 80386 machine with co-processor . |
| 5 | The Crime and Punishment notebooks expend considerable effort trying to establish an overarching reason or at least an empirical scatter of factors , and failing . |
| 6 | It looks , therefore , as if there is at least an empirical connection between academic autonomy and academic freedom . |
| 7 | Such pressures can lead to lack of environmental awareness or at least an understandable questioning of whether spending time or money or both on improving classroom ecology justifies the effort involved . |
| 8 | WHO suggests there should be , and , if not a common way of paying for it , at least an agreed means of approaching the difficulties involved . |
| 9 | I think also we ought to be guarded about too much detailed discussion of travel distances , we are talking here at most of travel distances of between six and ten miles , in keeping with the policy , erm it seems to me that erm if we we spend too much time on trying to determine whether six or ten miles distant , is is there any great significance in terms of the global environment it would be at least an unproved case , one way or the other , but also there seems to me to be a clear conflict in those who are trying to say that the new settlement proposal falls because not large enough of a site is being proposed , one way and another . |
| 10 | The iconography of a state 's coinage viewed over a period of time can reveal a certain amount of information about the aspirations of that state , since the choice of designs will normally reflect the matters considered important by at least an influential body in that state and will present these important matters in a particular way . |
| 11 | The house we bought , with Nonni 's money , was , if not the Victorian ruin Richard had wanted , at least an Edwardian shell . |
| 12 | Learning , then , is a misnomer , or at least an inadequate way of construing higher education . |
| 13 | The press , who had been alerted by an anonymous call to Reuters the previous day by one of the assassins , were out in force , waiting and hoping to get an exclusive of an assassination , or at least an attempted assassination , for the morning papers . |
| 14 | Moreover , those who have greatest need of the street should have at least an equal right to its use , so that children and elderly people . |
| 15 | They all have interest in the scheme so that we would believe the thing to do would be to have at least an equal number of employer appointed trustees and employee appointed trustees and the employee in this , I 'm using it globally , so it does cover all three groups and we also believe it would be advisable because er inevitably the e er members er probably would n't know a lot about pensions themselves to have an independent trustee from an independent company who specialises in pensions and pensions laws and could a advise them on exactly what the law says and what they they 're legal duties etcetera are . |
| 16 | For all that , it disturbs me to see him portrayed as Hüsker Dü 's creative force when Grant Hart had at least an equal hand in writing their material . |
| 17 | After all , Snow forcefully reminded us that science had at least an equal claim to that of the humanities in the full development of the mind of the student : they were two cultures , formally equal in status . |
| 18 | He explored this theme most famously in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism ( 1930 ) and related works , arguing that Calvinistic Protestantism 's individualistic ethos and positive attitude to the accumulation of private wealth provided the key to understanding why capitalism had arisen in the West rather than in Asia where the economic conditions for capitalist development existed to at least an equal extent . |
| 19 | It must have taken Summerchild at least an extra minute in each direction ; as I recall it from those evenings fifteen years ago , he walked at a much more reflective pace , as if slowed by some inner weight . |
| 20 | Poll tax payers in Hambleton will have to find at least an extra £25 after district councillors yesterday set the rate at £210 for the area 's 60,000 payers an increase of 13pc . |
| 21 | Yet personal allowances should have been raised in line with last December 's inflation rate of 2.6 per cent , allowing taxpayers to earn at least an extra £90 a year before tax . |
| 22 | Where only one sponsor is required , alternative sponsors should be sought on at least an annual basis ; |
| 23 | Whilst all school knowledge has at least an implicit pedagogy this tradition places the ‘ way the child learns ’ as the central concern in devising subject content . |
| 24 | Sex education draws together much of the Whitehouse ‘ philosophy ’ , for not only does it explicitly focus upon the young , but also it carries at least an implicit stance on the role and utility of the contemporary family . |
| 25 | It has so far been assumed that while the corporate sector 's response to consumer demand may be imperfect , that what is responded to is at least an authentic expression of consumer tastes . |
| 26 | She submitted there was no other appropriate or fair way for the Secretary of State to deal with the case other than to allow Doherty at least an oral hearing or written representation . |
| 27 | If each of these requirements were to be implemented , it was , he said , necessary to have at least an organized labour-market , though much more would be needed . |
| 28 | It was at least an important dream , a literary dream , that dictated the pattern of our days . |
| 29 | Undercutting , polishing and pitting up to about 3 m ( 10 ft ) confirms that wind has played at least an important part in their development , while their restriction to areas of erodible sandstone providing a large amount of material for sand blasting also strongly suggests the part played by the wind . |
| 30 | That is , to put it at its most basic , the respondent is at least an adequate reporter of his or her attitudes , beliefs and other subjective states , his or her relationship with others , past , present and intended behaviour , and about objective features of the respondent 's life . |