Example sentences of "be at [adv] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Radical deputies attempted unsuccessfully on Oct. 2 to postpone the elections by proposing a bill which would require the number of candidates to be at least twice the number of seats at issue . |
| 2 | The language of the novel makes use of this cliché to demonstrate first that there is a profound ambiguity in the social construction of femininity according to which women are passive but at the same time subversive of the binary distinction which so construes them , and second that all people , male and female , are condemned to being at least partially the product of the language of others . |
| 3 | It is understandable , therefore , why they should also believe that this harsh and exploitative system a fact noted not just by Marxists but also by social reformers like Dickens , Rowntree , William Booth , the Webbs and Edwin Chadwick at the time would ultimately be questioned by the class of people who were at once both the most numerous and the most exploited by this mode of production . |
| 4 | It certainly is not , in fact most yarns , including industrials , are at least twice the price of an equivalent in the UK . |
| 5 | Although the number of species may have been at least approximately the same in marine environments for the last 300 million years or so the kinds of fossils have changed repeatedly , so that , for example , in marine limestones of Silurian age the shelled brachiopods may number dozens of species , whereas in similar looking limestones of Eocene age no brachiopods at all can be found , but there may be as many species of gastropods of kinds unknown in Silurian rocks . |
| 6 | The other is at least partly the result of what history did to the Greeks between 1453 and 1821 , the centuries of Ottoman rule when ‘ government ’ meant something alien . |
| 7 | This fine 18th century building , designed by James Gibbs , is at least symbolically the heart of the university . |
| 8 | It will be seen that ν 5 is at almost precisely the same frequency in each case , but that both ν 2 and ν 6 vary in frequency with the mass of the halogen . |
| 9 | And the telephone number I remember to this day , was Porthmadog so that shows it was at least probably the telephone to go into being in Porthmadog . |