Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [verb] at least [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This involves reconstruing the situation so that it looks more straightforward and easy to handle , thus allowing sides to be taken or a stance adopted which reduces the confusion and allows at least some action to be taken — a villain to be defeated , a wrong to be righted , a battle to be fought . |
| 2 | AVALANCHES roared down the mountains of northern Afghanistan , burying hundreds of people in buses and cars and killing at least 40 , officials said yesterday . |
| 3 | Insofar as municipal systems set limits to the use of force and punish at least some of those guilty of crimes of violence it has some success as law and an undisputed claim to be regarded as law for as long as the officials of the system pursue these objectives by taking steps against non-compliance ( Hart , 1961 , pp. 79–88 and 213ff . ) . |
| 4 | The four singles titles on offer were contested by 15 nations and involved at least one British player in each final — with three of the four crowns going to the home players . |
| 5 | During 1902 Belle was able to return to Johannesburg and retrieve at least some of her possessions . |
| 6 | A HUGE bomb explosion rocked the centre of the Indian city of Calcutta late last night , bringing down two apartment blocks and killing at least 45 people . |
| 7 | You know , you should stay at home and have at least eight babies — it 's incredibly difficult , I mean a lot of parents would disagree whole heartedly with what I tell the girls . |
| 8 | His Lambeth Constitutions of 1281 laid down that the priest should instruct the people in the basics of the faith and preach at least four time a year in English . |
| 9 | If you have to tie a tourniquet , do not keep up pressure for longer than ten minutes and allow at least one minute between re-applications . |
| 10 | To advance Japan had to learn from the West and drop at least some of her former respect for China . |
| 11 | Can we not say that we say if we do n't have agreement by the thirty first of January we can take someone like who we 've already identified who will do the job for the money and take at least one person on pending a decision on the salary increase ? |
| 12 | There is , however , in the site museum a remarkable collection of stone statues and sculptured reliefs , bronzes and altars ( listed in the Appendix ) , all of a religious nature and involving at least five different deities ( Lenus-Mars , Diana Venatrix ( ? ) , |
| 13 | I would take three classes and exercise at least another 12 hours each week . |
| 14 | It was a vintage year for the Chemistry Department — a fellow student and colleague of Frank Rose , N Cusa , became well known as a painter in water colours and illustrated at least one ICI calendar . |
| 15 | Every month discipline yourself to go through the file and identify at least ten external contacts to phone . |
| 16 | When Gloucester had taken control of the young king he had dismissed the boy 's personal attendants and arrested at least two of them : Vaughan , the chamberlain , and Richard Haute , the controller . |
| 17 | When Gloucester had taken control of the young king he had dismissed the boy 's personal attendants and arrested at least two of them : Vaughan , the chamberlain , and Richard Haute , the controller . |
| 18 | Local housing programmes drawn up by an intercommunal co-operation body and covering at least five years were to be established in the 13 cities with more than 350,000 inhabitants . |
| 19 | Tandy Corp 's Computer City subsidiary plans to expand in Europe this year : it already has superstores in Stockholm and Copenhagen and plans at least one more in Europe this year , although it 's not sure where ; Computer City — one step down from Tandy 's Incredible Universe fun palace stores — will open its 19th US superstore on April 1 in the Boston area and plans to open 16 new US superstores a year for the next three years for a total of 66 . |
| 20 | He married Eleanor Sophia Marshall and had at least one daughter , Grace ( born 1853 ) . |
| 21 | Earlier this month up to five feet of snow in semi-desert areas and seven feet in the mountains trapped thousands of families and killed at least 500,000 farm animals in the south-west . |
| 22 | If he decides to summon such a meeting , the meeting must be held not more than four months from the date of the bankruptcy order ( r 6.79(1) ) , and the official receiver must inform the court and give at least twenty-one days ' notice to all creditors ( r 6.79(2) ) . |
| 23 | A BOMB exploded in a crowded railway station in Calcutta yesterday , killing one person and wounding at least 12 in the latest of a number of blasts in India . |
| 24 | A HUGE bomb rocked the centre of the Indian city of Calcutta last night , bringing down two blocks of flats and killing at least 45 people , police said . |
| 25 | Automatic crystallisation is not a term of art but covers at least two situations which at first blush appear dissimilar ; one is where the charge is made to crystallise on the happening of an event provided for in the charge without there being any need for a further act by the chargee and the other is where the charge is made to crystallise on the serving of a notice of crystallisation on the company . |
| 26 | On Friday , 13 powerful explosions ripped through Bombay , India 's commercial and business capital , killing 250 people and injuring at least 1,200 . |
| 27 | He killed a further five people and wounded at least eight , one of whom later died . |
| 28 | ‘ Love , ’ he pronounced , with the world-weary wisdom of a man who wore dark glasses after sundown and owned at least three psychedelic ties , ‘ love is farting in bed with someone who does n't mind . ’ |
| 29 | He married Alice Brooke of Shropshire and had at least three sons and two daughters , all of them involved directly or by marriage in London commerce . |
| 30 | It was Sir William Fleming , Sir Daniel 's son , ( Sir Daniel having died in 1701 ) who drew up a lease during 1703 reserving one-seventh as Royalty and requiring at least four able workmen to be employed for a minimum of six months in every year . |