Example sentences of "[prep] at least the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Woodley said the ballot had already achieved its objection of bringing pressure on the receivers and the Government to sanction immediate payments of at least the minimum state redundancy payoff to the 1,600 workers who have already lost their jobs . |
| 2 | Outside Parliament , an all-party Children 's Minimum Campaign Committee had been formed in 1934 ‘ to ensure that no child shall by reason of the poverty of its parents be deprived of at least the minimum food and other requirements for full health ’ . |
| 3 | The poor or null stabilizing effect of GpU indicated that , as it had been shown for the E.coli rrnB P 1 promoter ( 8 ) , the appearance of a complex stable to heparin challenge requires the formation of at least the first phosphodiester bond . |
| 4 | It was performance that drew applause from a press corps relieved to be approaching the end of at least the first election campaign this year , and brought smiles to previously glum ministerial faces . |
| 5 | Full realisation of the meaning of the partial divergence in styles of appeal between parliament and country requires recognition of at least the limited equation of ‘ enthusiasm ’ with popular opinion . |
| 6 | But we need to have a degree of common ownership of at least the broad parameters of what the world may look like , and we then seek the whole time to simplify down and down and down . |
| 7 | A key to the realization of his assets in Spain was a perilous shipment to Peru ; the success of at least the outward journey meant financial relief , but it was not until the war with Spain ended in 1808 that Gibbs 's difficulties really began to abate . |
| 8 | In Freud 's terms , this becomes a joke when both teller and listener , writer and reader , share an appreciation of at least the potential value of that sexuality . |
| 9 | Secondly , and a possible explanation for the first phenomenon , only those companies having on their own staff a group or individual of at least the same calibre and ability as the outside group are likely to achieve success in this type of collaboration . |
| 10 | But there was still a estimated overspend of at least the same amount this year , on top of a deficit of £38 million last year , said BBC spokesman Will Wyatt . |
| 11 | And each of these continued to be important throughout at least the inter-war period . |
| 12 | Probably a majority would recommend treatment of the female sexual partner(s) with at least the first attack of NSU , but , as with gonorrhoea where up to one third of female gonorrhoea contacts can be shown not to have the disease , such a policy of treatment without diagnosis is bound to lead to a certain amount of overtreatment . |
| 13 | Nevertheless it is important that every member of a firm should be familiar with at least the basic arrangements for its administration and should not be denied access to information about the activities of the firm at any level , subject always to their giving reasonable notice . |
| 14 | That we do not treat animals with at least the same respect that we treat such unfortunate human creatures is seen by the liberationists as ‘ speciesism ’ in its purest form based as it is only upon the anatomical difference . |
| 15 | Indeed , it is the implications of the changing age structure of the population of pensionable age and the likelihood of a continuation of that trend into at least the first decade of the twenty-first century which have been the chief concern of social planners and welfare economists , rather than the proportion of the total population entitled to draw retirement pensions . |
| 16 | Nonconformity persisted in the Nicholls dynasty into at least the third generation . |
| 17 | The historical year , now in general use in England for all everyday purposes and many official and ecclesiastical , begins on 1 January , and thus coincides with the Roman civil year which was widely used until at least the seventh century . |
| 18 | From the information in Table 3 find that recall is fairly stable until at least the 14th word when recall is immediate . |
| 19 | Cypress Semiconductor Corp is disappointed with its Sparc business , which is falling and impacted its earnings in at least the last quarter : but now it reckons its Pinnacle Sparc shot ( UX No 381 ) will save the day in the second half . |
| 20 | Forest it was then and the GNF meets the definition in at least the large tract of land sense . |
| 21 | The idea that there was a golden age of family obligations in the past was born out of a desire to ensure that increasing numbers of elderly people ( and other dependent groups ) in the population did not become too heavy a burden financially upon the wealthier classes ; hence the anxieties about whether working-class people had an adequate sense of ‘ filial affection ’ , which can be documented from at least the nineteenth century . |
| 22 | Representatives came from at least the following states : Uttar Pradesh , Andhra Pradesh , Panjab , Gujarat , Kerala , Assam , Maharashtra , Mysore , Rajasthan . |
| 23 | An important and different form of internal organization , distinct from at least the main phases of the bardic orders , is the craft guild , which was very common in later medieval society . |
| 24 | from at least the previous September . |
| 25 | It is now realised that lesser landowners , or gentry , played a crucial role in all aspects of medieval English history from at least the mid-thirteenth century . |
| 26 | We have evidence from at least the seventeenth century of restraint of births , and there is clear evidence of a planned decline of working-class family size from the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 27 | In fact conflict between Franks and Alamans was probably endemic from at least the fourth century until Clovis 's reign . |
| 28 | From at least the closing years of the eighteenth century the decline of gentry involvement and even tolerance of plebeian sports was evident . |
| 29 | Such an orientation to problem-solving has been a distinctive feature of English political culture for many centuries , discernible , I would suggest , since at least the thirteenth century . |
| 30 | Although industrialization has tended to eliminate traditional crafts , the non-agricultural element of the rural economy has increased in importance since at least the nineteenth century . |