Example sentences of "[vb -s] at least the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Easily as such writing can , on occasion , include the narcissistic or the vacuously ludic , it has at least the capacity to be seriously — or wittily — challenging , an enabling enhancement of its readers ' vision and decisiveness . |
| 2 | Such a suggestion has at least the face validity of being consistent with the research done by Labov and others on language variation ( see Hudson 1980 : Chapter 5 for a review ) . |
| 3 | This space , intended both to obtain the invention of new products , leading to enhanced consumption and profit , and to maintain ideological support , in response to apparent liberalism , allows at least the possibility that permitted pluralism can grow into radical dissent . |
| 4 | Words and names , as we all know from everyday experience , possess magical power : naming and identifying experiences and things imposes some degree of control over them and gives at least the illusion of bringing them within our power . |
| 5 | The ‘ original ’ actually fits Taylor , Walton and Young 's argument rather better than the amended version they quote above which implies at least the possibility of poverty as a cause of ‘ rational ’ crime . |
| 6 | One must , I think , start from the general premise that the protection of the child 's welfare implies at least the protection of the child 's life . |
| 7 | To the inner city local authority it offers at least the promise of retaining some economic activities that would otherwise leave the area ; and to the inner city resident it offers the prospect , as well as often the reality , of countryside recreation and relaxation . |