Example sentences of "[verb] at [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | But soon the big stories were written in the knowledge that readers would know at least the bare bones from a news bulletin , and the 24-hour cycle of the daily paper lost much of its point as a news medium . |
2 | He said fierce fighting was taking place near Bahdu and insisted I would need at least a hundred soldiers if I went there . |
3 | To use VidiPC you will need at least a 286 AT computer with 640Kb of RAM and a hard disk with enough room to store several images . |
4 | Fingers has a certain visual appeal , but you do need at least a 386 and 3Mb of memory to run it . |
5 | The basic DataEase is for 640Kb PCs with no Extended memory and will run on 8088/8086 machines ; DE16MB.EXE can use up to 16Mb of Extended memory and needs at least a 286 with 1 Mb of RAM . |
6 | Others see it occurring at exactly the same time each day , but with no obvious connection with any other activity . |
7 | This would include at least the following : |
8 | When he was joined in the Test team by Desmond Haynes , one of the most dependable and successful of all opening partnerships was created , and as the senior member in his late twenties Greenidge matured at just the right time . |
9 | He added , however , that his firm would win at least the same revenues as 1992 — $40m . |
10 | After incubation and the exertions of tending their young , adults require the rest of the summer to regain condition and undergo at least a partial moult , then to fatten again for their journey back to the wintering grounds . |
11 | It is also likely to provoke at least a verbal protest from the United States , which has warned against any attempt to stem the flow of American programmes across the Atlantic . |
12 | SCOTLAND now has at least a tenuous connection with the WBC heavyweight championship contest between the holder , Lennox Lewis , and Tommy Tucker in Las Vegas in May . |
13 | But as regards his goods and chattels , which include his leaseholds , it is early admitted that he has at least a limited power to dispose by will — limited because his wife and children may have rights which he can not override . |
14 | The explanation of this is to be found in the matters propounded in Chapter One , that is , that members of the human race have a deeply felt need for a ‘ god ’ and a religion , and as almost everybody is reared within a family or group with some kind of religious background , each has at least a lingering allegiance to some form of established religion . |
15 | There are suggestions it has at least a 2.5 per cent shareholding . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | ‘ Any Englishman , ’ said Thiercelin between sips , ‘ who is drifting about Vienna at present , supposedly as a tourist , has at least an even chance of being one of Pitt 's spies . |
18 | Besides having this example of baronial efficiency before his eyes , common sense might have suggested the importance of revealing at once the new conditions for ecclesiastical support which he had brought back from the Roman Council of 1099 . |
19 | It seems its very high speeds are only achieved occasionally , when pursuing food or escaping , and it normally cruises at about a third or a half of its rapid dashes . |
20 | The announcement about dinner being served , Henry observed with approval , had come at just the right length of time after the sherry had been drunk . |
21 | ‘ Actually , you 've come at just the right moment . |
22 | As I speak , a chance now for Martin Foyle ; Foyle has scored for Oxford , he 's done it , Oxford have pulled one back , tremendous through ball for Martin Foyle , he cheeked his way round the goalkeeper , put it in with the side of his foot so you 've come at exactly the right time , thirty one minutes gone , Spurs two , Oxford United one and the goal coming from Martin Foyle . |
23 | He cheeked his way round the goalkeeper , put it in with the side of his foot , so you 've come at exactly the right time , thirty one minutes gone , Spurs two , Oxford United one . |
24 | The job depended upon careful organisation as it had to be come at only a few days ' notice . |
25 | Institutions established outside the normal administrative structures having broad responsibilities for regional or area development provide at least a theoretical framework able to ensure a degree of coordination between sectoral government agencies . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | Though the evidence for so precise a statement is not at all clear , he does also present two pieces of documentary evidence which appear to provide at least a probable terminus post and ante quem respectively for the appointment . |
28 | I have looked at quite a few , but there have not been any which have struck me as being ‘ the one ’ . |
29 | If I may anticipate a point which , I know from experience , the hon. Member for Oldham , West ( Mr. Meacher ) may in due course seek to make , those increases mean that , when looked at alongside the extra help that we have made available in the past four years through income-related benefits for the less well-off families with children , which will amount to some £600 million next year , total expenditure on help to families next year will be higher than if we had simply increased child benefit each year since 1987-88 . |
30 | I know that because I grow at least a dozen of them in my allotment . |