Example sentences of "[subord] 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 | During the second six months he can , and may get a little work ; but until at least a year after the end of pupillage he will probably have to live on his parents or spouse . |
| 3 | The classic reds of Bordeaux are best left until at least a decade after the vintage date printed on the label . |
| 4 | Benelux in particular objected to the vigour with which de Gaulle and France were pushing the Fouchet Plan , and argued that fundamental decisions such as those raised by the plan should be deferred until at least the question of British membership of the EEC had been resolved . |
| 5 | Thus the popular EC argument that HDMAC is necessary because digital HDTV will not be a reality until at least the year 2000 , has been turned on its head . |
| 6 | CDS is committed to supporting that hardware until at least the year 2000 — it still builds and sells them — though there will be no further additions to the series . |
| 7 | The retention of title is an arrangement whereby the seller of goods retains title to the goods until at least the buyer of the goods pays for them . |
| 8 | The 36-year-old American is unlikely ever again to have such a good chance to lift a 10th title , with Monica Seles absent and Graf out of the way until at least the final . |
| 9 | The Dunedin study ( quoted by De Melker as confirming that children with persistent effusions at a young age have problems with learning , language , and development until at least the age of 7–9 years has now produced follow up data ( reported at the international symposium on otitis media with effusion , Fort Lauderdale , 1991 ) to age 16 which shows that these educational and developmental problems continued , and that reading age in untreated patients remained two years behind their treated controls . |
| 10 | The kings of the Mercians until at least the time of Ceolwulf ( 821–3 ) claimed descent from either Penda or one of his brothers ( see Appendix , Fig. 8 ) . |
| 11 | The Bishop said the translator had attended very carefully to all the criticisms and it now seemed likely that we would have to wait until at least the end of the summer before the English edition appears . |
| 12 | Hewlett-Packard Co has had to delay shipment of its new LaserJet 4L printer because of a defective part , US PC Week reports : the printer , originally set for general release May 3 , has been delayed until at least the end of this month , and possibly until mid-June , because of a flaw in the paper sensor , the company said ; the faulty sensor , which sits under the paper tray , causes the printer to communicate a ‘ paper out ’ message and stop printing , even though the tray has paper in it the firm said . |
| 13 | In 1860 the foreign secretary urged British diplomats not to use unnecessarily " this very costly channel of communication " , and until at least the end of the nineteenth century the ministers in China and Japan , to save money , were still guided , except in serious emergencies , by despatches which took five weeks to reach them via the Suez Canal , or four if they were sent across Canada . |
| 14 | Even so the repression , thanks mainly to the moderating role of Lerroux and the Radicals , stopped short of the extremes urged by the monarchist right and much of the CEDA : judicial executions were few , while at least the left remained legal and the Catalan Statute in being . |
| 15 | This shape of coffin had been in use throughout western Europe since at least the middle of the fourteenth century , as shown by an illuminated manuscript in the Royal Library , Brussels , depicting the burial of victims of the Great Plague of Tournai in 1349 . |
| 16 | You know as well as I do that art and commerce have walked hand in hand since at least the Renaissance . ’ |
| 17 | Specialised studies of sex as a social experience have been appearing for almost a hundred years , since at least the time of the great pioneering sexologists and anthropologists of the late nineteenth century ; and what appeared then were works which have been profoundly influential , not only in describing but in constructing and delineating the areas to be discussed . |
| 18 | Since at least the time of Rousseau it has been the assertion of self against the preternaturally distorting effects of modern , and later industrial civilisation ; sex , that is to say , is the essence of our individual being which asserts itself against the demands of culture , and this has had a profound resonance in our thinking . |
| 19 | It has been one of the cliches of modern liberalism , since at least the time of de Tocqueville and the younger Mill , to dwell on the possible , even probable , disjunction between democracy and liberty , to stress the fact that popular rule does not necessarily imply personal freedom , and to conjure up the spectacle of the " tyranny of the majority " . |
| 20 | And yet , since at least the time of Hegel and Marx , we have been increasingly aware that , as Enzensberger 's paraphrase of Marx has it , " What is going on in our minds has always been , and will always be a product of society " . |
| 21 | But on the near horizon , immediately beyond Foston 's sheep pastures , stands Wigston Magna , the most populous village in Leicestershire since at least the time of the great Domesday Survey and a world apart from Squire Faunt and his shepherds . |
| 22 | Thus Everton , a modest sized village since at least the time of Domesday Book , lost its separate identity during the middle decades of the nineteenth century and became a working-class quarter of Liverpool . |
| 23 | Nor did the cheering cease when the runners got down to business and the three-mile race commenced , for at almost every fence Arkle and Mill House produced leaps which drew from the spectators whoops of appreciation . |
| 24 | The class had just begun to read the play which I had chosen when at 11am the radio relay came to life with an announcer saying : This is London ’ , followed by the announcement that the King had died in the early hours of the morning and proclaiming the accession of Queen Elizabeth II to the throne , ’ recalls Mr Dowling of Staindrop Drive , Middlesbrough . |
| 25 | I was stuck with that age even though at least a year had gone by . |
| 26 | It would be a mistake to follow early modern Europe in the importance it attached to titles ; but the emergence of a more clearly defined diplomatic hierarchy had some significance , both as cause and result , for the parallel emergence of diplomacy as at least a kind of profession . |
| 27 | On this basis Polaris , and even Trident , could be retained as at least a bargaining counter . |
| 28 | This may be a form of habituation , but it is very long-lasting and thus can reasonably be regarded as at least a form of non-associative learning . |
| 29 | The fact that the police are positioned as at once the backbone of the State and a pariah within civil society in a way that is similar , though not identical , to that of the working class adds a further twist to the tale . |