Example sentences of "or at [adv] [art] [adv] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 In this sense , the intent to harm someone may be less immoral ( or at least no more immoral ) than to be indifferent as to whom is harmed .
2 What we need now is a tomato antidote or at least a little of the restraint implicit in the observation made in a French book of Dissertations Gastronomiques ( 1928 ) by Ernest Verdier , owner of the Maison Dorée , a restaurant celebrated in the Paris of the Belle Epoque .
3 In the middle of Bangalore , as you thread through a jungle of exotic trees and overgrown ornamental gardens , cross long neglected croquet lawns , tennis courts and disused summer houses , you are confronted with Windsor Castle , or at least a very passable facsimile locked up and in pawn to the Government to pay Royal debts .
4 ( The third effect should strictly speaking be regarded as a substitute for the first since it assumes a zero , or at least a very low , interest elasticity of the demand for money whereas the Keynes effect assumes that it is reasonably powerful . )
5 Any old string of amino acids a hundred amino acids long will have some kind of enzymic activity pretty well , or at least a very great many of them will .
6 Given a tâtonnement process or at least a perfectly operating price mechanism which disseminated the information necessary to co-ordinate the plans of households and firms , the neo-classical comparative approach would be justified .
7 When , however , the hostilities did begin , for most Frenchmen they ended , ignominiously , with imprisonment by the Japanese while for those in the north who together with their Vietnamese riflemen fought the Japanese with exemplary heroism , dying in beleaguered garrisons or making a fighting retreat to the Chinese border , their fate precipitated the most unpleasant or at least the most unfortunate disagreement between the Allies .
8 It is the most promising ‘ global language ’ candidate , or at least the most likely to permeate other languages so thoroughly as to amount to the same thing .
9 Many of our users want information about the present situation , or at least the most recent data available , and are not interested in data from previous Censuses .
10 Up to now , the republics and provinces ( or at least the more prosperous ones ) have shown a strong resistance to allowing the federal government to enter the field of income tax .
11 Engineer Officers , or at least the more recently joined ones , were brought up to consider metal the thing and sometimes had no patience with wood .
12 These , or at least the more salient ones , the analyst will try to control by partitioning , that is dividing each of the original occupational categories into , subgroups with other possibly salient characteristics in common .
  Next page