Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] is at least " in BNC.
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| 1 | The traditional peoples in the world today , such as the Australian aborigines , are profoundly and naturally psychic and it is at least reasonable therefore to speculate that the ancient peoples were similarly sensitive , and would have been aware of earth energies as a natural part of their environment . |
| 2 | It is well over 1000 light-years away , and it is at least 500 times as luminous as the Sun , but its surface is very cool for a normal star — hence the crimson colour . |
| 3 | The fact that the US was canvassing support from other Asian states would very likely have been known to the Russians and Chinese ; and it is at least conceivable that this fact influenced their own decision . |
| 4 | Though Banfield 's research is partially accurate if read merely as description , it does not explain fully the lack of concerted action by those excluded from privilege , and it is at least misleading , if not inaccurate , in its neglect of the pre-modern political organisation of these areas , which is based on personal patronage networks centred on landholders . |
| 5 | She is a wooden ship , not unlike the old clippers we used to run for the grain trade before World War I , but she is at least a century older . |
| 6 | We do not suggest he would be the right Labour leader , but he is at least an honest and fearlessly outspoken politician . ’ |
| 7 | It may not be possible now to reorganise the power industry to sell services , rather than energy , but it is at least possible to plan in terms of the uses to which the energy must be put . |
| 8 | But it is at least necessary to start Mary 's story on the morning of Tuesday , 12th January 1937 , when she was fifteen years old . |
| 9 | We would be the last to advocate wholesale belief in the utterances of governments , but it is at least possible that these protestations are sincere . |
| 10 | On the whole Hercules is rather a barren constellation , but it is at least graced by the presence of these two splendid globulars . |
| 11 | We may not know exactly how evolution took place , but it is at least now clear that humanity evolved in some way from the higher apes ; that there were female and male of other species on the earth before the appearance of women and men . |
| 12 | It is a dismal and discomfiting picture , but it is at least a ‘ natural ’ one . |
| 13 | But it is at least interesting that there seems to be this level shift problem embedded within physics itself . |
| 14 | But it is at least possible to imagine circumstances in which a ruling or decision of the panel might give rise to legitimate complaint . |
| 15 | But it is at least possible that one or more of the investors might want to keep the shares for whatever remote speculative value the shares might have . |
| 16 | The exact meaning of the word in relation to the status of the early civitas capitals is also still unresolved , but it is at least clear that we are dealing with a unit which enjoyed some measure of self-government . |
| 17 | Actuarial predictions of a country 's mortality record are now very reliable , but it is at least a theoretical risk that the record could deteriorate unexpectedly . |
| 18 | The analysis for parameter values near point X is much harder , involving elements of all the other analyses mentioned so far , but it is at least possible to confirm that Fig. 6.2 is qualitatively correct { 11 } . |
| 19 | There is no space here to examine this issue in detail , but it is at least a little odd that the work of such pragmatic theorists as Grice , Horn , Levinson and Sperber and Wilson , which has been successful in many areas and which has also cast serious doubt on speech-act-based approaches , is never mentioned in a book which explicitly claims the superiority of Austinian approaches . |