Example sentences of "at least from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet , a full picture of Arab political humour truly reflecting the psychology , thought and politics of the Arab peoples can not be adequately drawn without covering the entire span of Arab history , at least from the rise of Islam . |
| 2 | But the early experience of monarchy had its advantages , at least from the viewpoint of those trying to impose a more central control ; the ‘ ealdermen ’ , or earls , eventual successors to the ‘ kings ’ , were expected to collect quite considerable taxes at the behest of their overlords . |
| 3 | In the other two scenes , what is involved is not much more than a relatively conventional dramatic mechanism : in the Sunday Morning scene ( Act Two , scene one ) the music in church provides a kind of running commentary to the developing quarrel between Ellen and Peter ( in the manner of countless 19th-century operas from Faust to Werther ) , while the barn dance of Act Three similarly updates an ironic tradition stretching at least from The Marriage of Figaro to Wozzeck . |
| 4 | Others emerged from the observations of medical practice and from the demographic research that , at least from the turn of the century , endeavoured to disclose those conditions of childbearing that are the most and least detrimental to the health of mothers and their offspring . |
| 5 | Early medieval monasticism was largely based on the Rule of St Benedict , at least from the time of St Boniface onwards , but with the liturgical side of the Rule greatly elaborated . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , and at least from the time the North Atlantic Pact was signed in April 1949 , France had a certain entitlement as an ally . |
| 7 | No details are known of the conversion of Wulfhere but he reigned as a Christian king with a succession of bishops — Trumhere , Jaruman , Chad and Wynfrith — with their seat , at least from the time of Chad , at Lichfield ( HE 111 , 24 : IV , 3 ) . |
| 8 | Professor Stone has assessed Robert Cecil 's income from political offices between 1608 and 1612 at £6,900 per annum , of which £3,000 came from Wards and £2,800 at least from the Treasurership . |
| 9 | It would be more attractive and viable in the late twentieth century , therefore , at least from the perspective of the Third World states involved , than the neutralisation regimes imposed on European states such as Switzerland , Belgium and Luxembourg in the last century . |
| 10 | This authority must include at least these four elements : ( I ) the right to veto any applicant who , in the manager 's opinion , falls below the minimum standards of ability ; ( 2 ) the power to make work assignments ; ( 3 ) the power to carry out performance appraisals and , within the limits of company policy , to make decisions — not recommendations — about raises and merit rewards ; and ( 4 ) the authority to initiate removal — at least from the manager 's own team — of anyone who seems incapable of doing the work . |
| 11 | None the less , the obvious and growing dangers of the international situation in the decade before 1914 brought increasing demands , at least from the left of the political spectrum , that foreign policy be brought under more effective parliamentary control . |
| 12 | At least from the point of with Labour at least they most of them send their kids through the state system so they 've got a little more idea of what they 're talking about . |