Example sentences of "[conj] at [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No matter how bad the storm was she had to go on deck , where at least the air was clean . |
| 2 | I do n't suppose you 'd er get that sort of relationship nowadays and of course it was during the war when people er the fact that erm there was a war on erm was a levelling down or up or at least a levelling of , of people 's situations they , |
| 3 | In nineteen sixty one , prior to the crisis , the Americans had to face the rather humiliating settlement in Laos by which they accepted a communist erm er government , or at least a government which had communist members , erm Kennedy wanted to intervene in Laos but again was restrained by his British ally , MacMillan would n't in fact accept er that we should get involved in a ground war in Indo-China . |
| 4 | In nineteen sixty one , prior to the crisis , the Americans had to face the rather humiliating settlement in Laos by which they accepted a communist erm er government , or at least a government which had communist members , erm Kennedy wanted to intervene in Laos but again was restrained by his British ally , MacMillan would n't in fact accept er that we should get involved in a ground war in Indo-China . |
| 5 | It would be effective only if all , or at least a majority of firms — especially the large international search businesses — agreed to join . |
| 6 | Many still stand happily alone but they all know that without an ethernet or some other network port or at least a modem , they are very low technology in the world of the network . |
| 7 | It might be nice to have a few of us go along , and I will drop a few subtle hints so a meeting with the players or at least a trip round the ground and watching a training session is on the cards : - ) |
| 8 | It might be nice to have a few of us go along , and I will drop a few subtle hints so a meeting with the players or at least a trip round the ground and watching a training session is on the cards : - ) |
| 9 | Or at least a disagreement . |
| 10 | If there has n't been an historic massacre there , then somebody ought to organise one , or at least a bit of a tiff , to do justice to its shadowy , sombre sentinels of cliffs . |
| 11 | Mrs Gray was a tall , fairish woman with a slight stoop or at least a tendency for her shoulders to bow forward round her chest . |
| 12 | You can seek help with it in a number of ways : there are your own staff and possibly other work colleagues ; and there may be a personnel department or at least a person with some training in this area . |
| 13 | In the 1950s scientific experiment appeared to confirm the existence of an ‘ unconscious ’ , or at least a part of the brain where all experiences were stored . |
| 14 | He said what she was thinking — or at least a part of it ! |
| 15 | So here I am , the ‘ generous ’ reader who might have a manual available , or at least a photocopy . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ Find yourself a job , or at least a hobby that you enjoy doing . |
| 18 | You might be bursting with ideas and talking fifty to the dozen Monday , but less robust souls need a quiet place or at least a breathing space to assimilate and appreciate what you have to say . |
| 19 | A young woman going to buy material for her Salwar Kamiz in Bradford or Newham would almost invariably be accompanied by her mother or husband or cousin or at least a friend . |
| 20 | take it in the end but erm anyway I got this diploma and er then I was quite annoyed because erm Social Services then erm pu the Welfare for the Blind was dealt with by the Public Health Department and a vacancy occurred in the Public Health Department for erm Blind Welfare Officer , or at least a Welfare Officer for the Blind and I applied for it and erm , they er did n't make an appointment because they did n't er get in other applications but they di they did n't offer me the appointment . |
| 21 | It is the generally accepted method of succession in our family , but , ’ the corpse sighed , or at least a sigh came from the air a few feet above it , ‘ it soon became obvious that none of my three children is sufficiently powerful to wrest the lordship of the Wyrmberg from the other two . |
| 22 | It is possible for the race to be won at very long odds , and on two or three occasions , assisted by Wigg , I had been able to locate the winning horse , or at least a horse in the first three , which , if the odds were long enough , nevertheless produced a satisfactory result . |
| 23 | There is a certain dishonesty , or at least a limitation of truth , in presenting only historical facts . |
| 24 | An extraordinarily high proportion of Milton scholars have chosen to disregard these truths about their subject , and have decided that because Milton was on the side of the regicides this made him a revolutionary and , because a revolutionary , therefore a man of the Left , perhaps even an agonized Maminst , or at least a sympathizer with the Diggers and Levellers of his own day . |
| 25 | In ideal circumstances a son or daughter may be able to provide a granny flat or at least a bedsitting-room which the older person can call their own and where they can have some personal furniture and possessions as well as privacy . |
| 26 | would give selected staff a London training , to be followed , if you were lucky , by a London job — at Euston , or King 's Cross , or at least a post in one of the large cities , at Snow Hill , Crewe or even Edinburgh . |
| 27 | A joint venture between competitors or potential competitors may infringe Article 85 of the Treaty of Rome if the participants could reasonably have been expected to enter the market individually , and in such cases the creation of an EEIG will not obviate the need to seek an exemption , or at least a comfort letter , from the Commission . |
| 28 | Whereas a system by thirds means that it 's unlikely that the council or at least a lot of councils , will suddenly have a quick switch around and you 'll get a greater continuity of policy . |
| 29 | These were essentially fighting men , or milites strenui , making a career of arms and receiving the sword-belt from a superior lord , preferably a king or at least a count . |
| 30 | The binary policy can to some extent be interpreted , therefore , as either an attack on , or at least a misreading of , the universities — as seen from the universities themselves . |