Example sentences of "[verb] at [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not everything was in ruins : rising through the rubble were banks of communications and control consoles , housed in cabinets with flowing , plastic lines that must have been designed at least a century previously . |
| 2 | ‘ To put the economic aspect into perspective , it would need at least a doubling of the price of energy to make some of the supply options attractive to investors . ’ |
| 3 | It 's argued that you 'd need at least a force of eighty thousand troops , that 's in Bosnia . |
| 4 | The files tend to be very large , so you 'll need at least an 80Mb hard drive . |
| 5 | Their debts are now more than £6.5m and chairman Sir John Hall says he needs at least a week to draw up another rescue package before he and his fellow directors will be in a position to open talks with Kevin Keegan about the vacant manager 's position . |
| 6 | There the Reis-ul-Kuttab , or Reis Effendi as he was usually called by foreigners , the head of the grand vizier 's chancery , showed some signs of becoming at least an approximation to a foreign minister . |
| 7 | Graphics should include at least a display board featuring the product literature . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The Combsburgh High School stages a Christmas pantomime in which every young Jack and Jill ( or Wayne and Tracy as they are all called today ) has at least a walk-on part . |
| 10 | VMS also offers the best clustering facilities and host functionality , and has at least a measure of openness with the addition of VMS Posix compliance . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | She has at least an hour a day on it . |
| 14 | If you look back to 1974 you 'll discover that our vote lifted at precisely the moment the Tories tried the same game . |
| 15 | But as fear of Soviet intentions increased , so some in Britain began to feel that concessions might be necessary in order to secure at least a degree of American backing in the region . |
| 16 | Probably most languages grammaticalize at least a distinction between proximal ( or close to speaker ) and distal ( or non-proximal , sometimes close to addressee ) , but many make much more elaborate distinctions as we shall see . |
| 17 | He must have come at least a mile across the fields and climbed over a stock-proof fence . ’ |
| 18 | How do you adhere to the HN Unit Specification and yet provide at least a context which makes it fully your own college 's HNC/D . |
| 19 | 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 " ? |
| 20 | They are used because of their alleged efficiency , the two main spectral lines of sodium being emitted at nearly the peak of the colour response curve for the human eye . |
| 21 | Its view of a more civilized order involved at once the removal of unreasonable restraints and the sensible management of the necessary political and economic framework of life . |
| 22 | Finally , resolved to find at least a change of heat , I went on to Khartoum , which had the merit at least of being dry in contrast to the swelter up north . |
| 23 | Here , the major objective is to find at least a champion , and hopefully an internal sponsor for the idea . |
| 24 | I would like to be able to find at least an oddment of eroticism . |
| 25 | In essence , there is little for local authorities to do , and what does need to be done can wait at least a couple more years ! |
| 26 | Large libraries were just as likely as small ones to want more training officers ' time , even though they were far more likely to employ a designated training officer ( or someone who devoted at least a quarter of their time to training ) . |
| 27 | The irony is that the skins in trying to be ‘ authentic ’ have ended up reviving an idea of working class culture which is frozen at precisely the point when a ‘ real ’ , ‘ authentic ’ working class identity was being positively eaten away from outside . |
| 28 | The first jobs through the system should be paralleled through the current process as well to provide at least a degree of insurance against total disaster . |
| 29 | The development of a GIS capable of storing and manipulating the volumes of data required for a global research programme is still some way off , but smaller GIS have been used to attempt to provide at least a beginning . |
| 30 | A command may also be cancelled at nearly every stage : |