Example sentences of "be [verb] at [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the restriction of the survey to schools which had been scheduled at least to have made a start on the review , only four-fifths of the teachers included actually had . |
| 2 | All gas and electrical equipment and appliances , wiring , lamp holders , power points and plugs , and particularly electric blankets should be checked for safety and efficiency , and taps , pipes and tanks should be looked at also to see if they are in need of attention . |
| 3 | Even the oilfields which have been discovered and appraised need to be looked at again to determine whether they are still profitable at low oil prices . |
| 4 | In other words , having debited principal and interest for loans raised to operating statements , rates had to be collected at least to cover those repayments ( S. 2 , General Rate Act 1967 ) . |
| 5 | My hon. Friend says that cash is available which could be used at least to make some payment to doctors who had their payments limited by the list size criterion . |
| 6 | If the boy would not listen to poetry , then he should be forced at least to understand some grammar . |
| 7 | Whether the end result will lead to better governmental accounting is impossible to say , but it seems clear that major steps are being taken and will continue to be taken at least to understand the commonalities and differences between accounting for businesses and accounting for governmental units . |
| 8 | This morning the British Ambassador in Berlin handed the German Government a final note stating that unless we heard from them by eleven o'clock that they were prepared at once to withdraw their troops from Poland , a state of war would exist between us . |
| 9 | It was now becoming increasingly clear that the French were determined at least to hold on to the richest party , namely Cochinchina : or at least this was the unmistakable objective of the new French High Commissioner , the implacable Admiral Thierry d'Argenlieu . |
| 10 | But for the first time in decades the opposition parties are trying at least to look like a credible alternative government . |
| 11 | Each application is looked at carefully to make sure that those in most need will receive the service . |
| 12 | The committee , which is to report before Christmas , is expected at least to recommend the lifting of the ban on scientific whaling and to permit a target catch of 100 minke whales . |
| 13 | Public sector pricing raises more complex issues but it , too , is based on the idea that the price is fixed at least to cover the marginal social cost of producing the service . |
| 14 | For is this not also the party which is led by a woman who has devoted much effort to preaching the virtues of abolishing precisely what Labour is trying at least to re-define : socialism itself . |
| 15 | Prophete spent his exile in and around his deanery of Hereford until , after the revolution of 1399 , he was recalled at once to become one of the most active attenders on the royal council , doubtless to contribute bureaucratic flair to a government badly needing to prove its administrative competence . |
| 16 | With regard to the relics , I was prepared at least to consider the possibility that there could have been some sort of automatic response in the nerves and muscle fibres triggered by the lightning . |
| 17 | He was determined at least to discuss it with his friend Geoffrey Dawson , ’ the editor of The Times , before entering into commitment . |