Example sentences of "[vb -s] at least [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But Blackheath administrator Alun Davies said : ‘ The knee is coming on fine but it needs at least another couple of weeks rehabilitation .
2 He has at least some degree of control over his immediate circumstances , but even if he is unable to exert control in particular cases , he at least knows that his views and decisions count .
3 By accepting changes and variations on the ancient recipes we can achieve a different kind of authenticity , one which has at least some semblance of reality .
4 But I would suppose that the Home Office has at least some information as to the judges ' tariff , and probably a great deal .
5 There is no cure for this , but fortunately it is usually found that such processes do not occur in some fraction of photoionization events , so that the observed spectrum contains at least some intensity in an unshifted line , accompanied by various ‘ satellites ’ corresponding to the energy loss processes .
6 This involves reconstruing the situation so that it looks more straightforward and easy to handle , thus allowing sides to be taken or a stance adopted which reduces the confusion and allows at least some action to be taken — a villain to be defeated , a wrong to be righted , a battle to be fought .
7 But two entirely new yards were opened towards the end of the decade , showing that BR envisages at least some need for shunting for the foreseeable future !
8 What is now becoming clear is that clozapine produces a build up of dopamine in different receptors from other neuroleptics , and this gives a strong indication that another neurochemical abnormality underlies at least some symptoms of the disorder .
9 This gives at least some indication how multimedia databases can be constructed .
10 This is an important topic since 95 per cent of rural households in the USA consume only groundwater , while half the US population consumes at least some groundwater ( Merchant et al. 1987 ) .
11 The connection of inherent resources , often deepened by what may be shared rhythmic and perceptual qualities in our species , offers at least some degree of relatively unmediated access .
12 That fate is connected with the primal parricide , and involves at least those nations influenced by Christianity and Islam , that is , those peoples who share the Old Testament sacred writings with the Jews and claim the same God , the same Father in heaven .
13 This study goes at least some way towards overcoming the problems of other work discussed by Box and Hale ( 1986 , pp. 74–5 ) , in that it relies on self-reported victimisation rather than police figures on recorded crime , and it controls for other socio-demographic variables .
14 While recognizing the difficulties inherent in implementing the FMI , the slow progress recorded suggests at least some lack of consensus within Whitehall .
15 This suggests at least some role for the right hemisphere in certain language functions .
16 For deaf people , this isolation may lead to lack of access to the legal machinery of statementing , which presently conveys at least some protection to those who are struggling with their education .
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