Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] at least [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For that to begin to come about , a challenger would need to attract at least 70 MPs to vote for him or abstain . |
| 2 | According to the draft rules , a candidate would need to win at least 200 out of 300 votes to secure election in the first round or in a second round five days later . |
| 3 | Assuming that a target company is confined to an authority of 10 per cent it will be seen that the directors of the target and their concert parties will need to hold at least 27 per cent before the buy-in to hold 30 per cent afterwards and thereby trigger a Rule 9 obligation . |
| 4 | To capture the social aspects of deixis , we would need to add at least one further dimension , say of relative rank , in which the speaker is socially higher , lower or equal to the addressee and other persons that might be referred to . |
| 5 | In any event , you will need to have at least one independent judge who is unconnected with either the company or the publication . |
| 6 | As far as minimum requirements go , you will need to take at least one blank video cassette with you . |
| 7 | One proposal — which eventually fell through — involved the Butterley Company protecting the employer by agreeing to sell no land within five miles of the villages , thereby preventing any other sources of work being established , while the factory-owner would guarantee to take at least 65 per cent of his workforce from Ollerton . |
| 8 | Taking account again of the public concern about violent crime , in future I intend to exercise my discretion so that murderers of police or prison officers , terrorist murderers , sexual or sadistic murderers of children and murderers by firearm in the course of robbery can normally expect to serve at least 20 years in custody ; and there will be cases where the gravity of the offence requires a still longer period . |
| 9 | At the same time the Secretary of State gave notice that for certain categories of crime where life sentences had been passed , the offenders could expect to spend at least 20 years in prison . |
| 10 | She therefore would like to see at least two or three days where her weight drops below her starting weight , maybe by 1 lb ( 0.5 kg ) . |
| 11 | Nevertheless there are few editors who do not like to use at least one or two photographs and the relevant drawings might be backed up with shots of the inventor or the experimental staff at work . |
| 12 | Jumped ‘ The gunman got out of a window and must have jumped at least 25 feet to the ground . |
| 13 | But if you are looking for a 21st century Polo , you will have to wait at least three years until the genuinely all-new one . |
| 14 | Sadly , there was no Marmite and no honey , we were told , and we 'd have to wait at least 20 minutes . |
| 15 | But he 'd have to wait at least another 2 and a half hours — that 's how long Mae Luz 's flight from Manila was delayed . |
| 16 | Yesterday , Det Supt Keith Readman revealed police will have to wait at least another month to interview 24-year-old Pringle , of Thirlmere Road , Darlington , who needs further surgery . |
| 17 | Yesterday Det Supt Keith Readman , head of Durham South CID , revealed police will have to wait at least another month to interview 24-year-old Pringle , of Thirlmere Road , Darlington . |
| 18 | One must be conscious of the pressures under which local authority social workers operate , particularly in boroughs such as that with which this case is concerned , but nonetheless one might have hoped that the letter would have received at least some acknowledgement . |
| 19 | To qualify , individuals will have to attend at least one refresher course each year to keep abreast of the latest developments in the industry . |
| 20 | Under the Parent 's charter , all schools will have to provide at least one written report on the progress of each child each year . |
| 21 | There must be something spicy in that combination : Daine could have solved at least three quarters of the crimes in the City just by owning up . |
| 22 | But industry will have to find at least 50 per cent of the funds . |
| 23 | The half-life is defined as the period during which half the number of atoms of an isotope will have undergone at least one disintegration . |
| 24 | Sometimes it is the Had I But Known what grim secret lurked beneath the smiling exterior I would never have set foot within the door ; Sometimes the Had I But Known then what I know now , I could have saved at least three lives by revealing to the Inspector the conversation I heard through that fortuitous hole in the floor . |
| 25 | Its President would be directly elected : for election he or she would have to receive at least 50 per cent of total votes cast nationally , andmoreover receive at least this percentage in a majority of states , and might not serve more than two consecutive five-year terms . |
| 26 | Police believe his attackers may have robbed at least nine old people in the same area . |
| 27 | They must have drawn at least 2 games then . |
| 28 | The robbers would have needed at least 16 large suitcases to carry off the cash , said bank spokesman , Jean-Claude Bach . |
| 29 | We will have produced at least six criteria . |
| 30 | Rangers should have had at least one goal . |