Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] at [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This should ensure at the very least that video taping is efficiently done using equipment which produces a clear picture and clear sound ; a requirement stressed by Douglas Brown J in the Rochdale case cited above . |
| 2 | There is , for example , the cultural dictum in many societies that girls should marry at a very early age , often prior to puberty . |
| 3 | If all goes according to plan he will hold the public sector borrowing requirement to £35 billion in the current year , rising to £50 billion in 1993-94 , but the proportion of gross domestic product should stabilise at no more than 8 per cent , and fall slowly back to around 4 per cent by 1997 — still an alarmingly large figure in the eyes of some City analysts . |
| 4 | It is rooted in his own quite complex philosophy but if we really wish to understand his argument we must start at a rather abstract level . |
| 5 | By some means or other the natural tendencies instilled by evolution , have to be brought under control , and the child must learn at a very early age that if he is to grow up and be happy , he must behave in accordance with rules and regulations . |
| 6 | The harm resulting from corporate discretion might lie in its impact on particular individuals or groups , or it might exist at a more abstract level , in the social disfiguration that the concentration of power in a small number of hands represents . |
| 7 | Okay , let's look at a slightly different style . |
| 8 | She was seeking the next angle , the next approach , knowing that she 'd have at the most a couple of minutes to make her pitch . |
| 9 | Anybody want anything he was there , his name was and he used to run up like er tally , tallyman he was you 'd pay at the most ten shillings down about two and six a week , something like that . |
| 10 | A chalk stream , for example , may flow at a virtually constant level summer and winter , while flash floods may occur miles from a water course or in hollows well above the water table . |
| 11 | Another distinct possibility is that , although annual incidence appears to be declining , it may stabilise at a far higher endemic level than that characterising the population prior to the ‘ epidemic ’ in 1979 . |
| 12 | ‘ I would hope at the very least the council will review it after three months and consult the disabled , town centre traders and shopkeepers , otherwise we will end up with ghost streets closed off to those least able to move about town . ’ |
| 13 | As the Prayer Book enjoined in the Notes appended to the Communion Service , ‘ every Parishioner shall communicate at the least three times in the year , of which Easter to be one ’ . |
| 14 | With the Punks , of course , this jumble-sale of fashion would arrive at a self-consciously surreal conclusion in that the scraps were now held together , literally and very visibly , with safety-pins . |
| 15 | It would mean at the very least , firmly subjugating the Commission to an elected authority . |
| 16 | He even had on a collar and tie , which I 'd never seen before and which he would tug at every now and then as if it were too tight . |
| 17 | You will find that the brood will grow at a fairly constant rate and should be around 6mm in length in about five weeks . |
| 18 | This chapter will look at the more specifically sexual side of this development . |
| 19 | The only certainty in today 's fast-moving home entertainment industry is that advances in product technology will occur at an even faster rate . |
| 20 | But the group is convinced that it is only a matter of time before someone discovers superconducting semiconductors that will work at the economically viable temperatures of liquid nitrogen . |
| 21 | The picture quality is n't as good as the digital alternative , but the Relate 2000 costs significantly less : it will retail at the appealingly low price of £399 for one or £749 for a pair . |
| 22 | Reviewing McBride , Eliot quoted from that writer 's conclusion that , given proper education of mind and body , ‘ the next generation may start at a very slightly higher level of capacity than their fathers ’ . |
| 23 | As the formation of these smaller fullerenes seems to require extensive annealing of more disorganized clusters , they may form at a relatively late stage of clustering . |
| 24 | However hopeful we may be , however much we may snatch at the more encouraging indicators , we can not look forward with any great confidence to a consumer recovery . |
| 25 | PARENTS ' disapproval of their child 's friends can begin at a surprisingly young age . |
| 26 | The machine includes software that can look at the very precise estimates of molecular mass and relate this figure to a certain combination of atomic masses , thus establishing which amino-acid groups are present . |
| 27 | So if we can look at the relatively small numbers , albeit , I mean , tragic numbers of people who have been harmed or died , we do have to set it into perspective against risks in other walks of life and against the enormous benefits that medicines have done . |
| 28 | Ed 's comment : Kissing Gouramis are surprisingly tolerant of water chemistry , and farm-raised specimens can breed at a more manageable size than wild fish . |
| 29 | It can come at the least expected time as , indeed , can the end of the world and the Second Coming of Jesus . |