Example sentences of "[vb base] at least " in BNC.
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| 1 | Assuming that uniformity exists for research funding by the EC , as an example , the EC Nuclear Fission Safety 1991–94 programme states that in order to qualify for research support projects ‘ your proposal must be transnational and involve at least two independent participants from different member States ’ , ie three in all . |
| 2 | 1.71 Personal injury cases are unique in that they almost always involve at least one expert : the doctor . |
| 3 | The presence of movement is one of our main criteria for being alive , and yet infant movements appear at least to be random , reflexive and undirected . |
| 4 | We shall also see that certain syntactic rules appear at least to be sensitive to implicature , and that implicature puts interesting constraints on what can be a possible lexical item in natural languages . |
| 5 | The defendants also contended that the lease provided for payment of a rent which pro tempore at least was illegal under the Counter Inflationary ( Business Rents ) Order , or , if the court found against them in that , then it was illegal under the Counter-Inflation Act , 1973 , s 17 . |
| 6 | Falling in dreams is quite common : surveys have found that between 50 and 80 per cent of subject samples report at least one falling dream . |
| 7 | These finds suggest at least two methods of fishing , with line and net , and there may have been others . |
| 8 | The aerial photographs suggest at least one Romano-Celtic temple alongside other circular or rectangular structures . |
| 9 | Similar leaves , although with a thick stem and a finer tip , occupy at least two of the spandrels in mosaic C. However , one of the small squares lying tangent to the central square , at High Wycombe , contains an unidentified bust ( section 1.4 , no. 6 ) which is unparalleled at North Hill . |
| 10 | The most convincing affinity however , is that of the squat urns , ( which occupy at least three of the half-roundels along the borders ) with those of the Bacchus and Leopard mosaic and the pavement from Halstock . |
| 11 | After incubation and the exertions of tending their young , adults require the rest of the summer to regain condition and undergo at least a partial moult , then to fatten again for their journey back to the wintering grounds . |
| 12 | But surely she owed her beloved that honour at least , the honour of single combat , which is a dragon 's privilege . |
| 13 | ‘ The field has been open to females only during the past year but we soon expect at least 10 per cent of dog-training course applicants will be female . ’ |
| 14 | They expect at least 80 , and possibly more than 100 , Labour MPs to join up . |
| 15 | Would n't this , I reasoned , eradicate at least some of their problems and at the same time reduce the level of criticism from us ? |
| 16 | IBM Corp 's quest for a new chief executive appears to be narrowing , but you pays your money and you takes your choice when it comes to drawing up a list of front-runners — US PC Week reckons that the company will go for a chairman from outside and suggests Paul Stern and Perot Systems Corp chairman Morton Meyerson as the front-runners , with an internal chief executive , putting its money on Ellen Hancock and Bernard Puckett , but the Reuter shortlist is quite different , and has Lawrence Bossidy , chairman of Allied-Signal Corp out front , saying he has visited Armonk at least three or four times , Paul Stern is in there again , and John Sculley is back in the picture , with one source quoted as saying ‘ The rumour is that Sculley is acting quite disinterested , but his travel plans include going to the East Coast quite a bit ; ’ Reuter 's other possible contender is Michael Armstrong , who left only last year . |
| 17 | Probably most languages grammaticalize at least a distinction between proximal ( or close to speaker ) and distal ( or non-proximal , sometimes close to addressee ) , but many make much more elaborate distinctions as we shall see . |
| 18 | I normally skip at least one day every two weeks . |
| 19 | Institutions established outside the normal administrative structures having broad responsibilities for regional or area development provide at least a theoretical framework able to ensure a degree of coordination between sectoral government agencies . |
| 20 | This is a superb prize and Paul Reed Smith has asked that the questions provide at least something of a challenge . |
| 21 | Masking is such a common operation that many computers provide at least one arithmetic or logical instruction which can specify a mask as well as the primary operands . |
| 22 | How do you adhere to the HN Unit Specification and yet provide at least a context which makes it fully your own college 's HNC/D . |
| 23 | An acting coach was brought in to help the less experienced actors and actresses but BBC sources say at least two more continentals are to go . |
| 24 | County Council 's similarly encouraged by the widest support inclusion of the policy has elicited , as I say at least in principle Chairman , and most of the respondents to alteration number three . |
| 25 | If the capping stands , unions say at least 94 teachers will be sacked . |
| 26 | Kent police say at least ten people have been killed and a further two are believed to have died in a coach crash on the M two near the Faversham turn-off . |
| 27 | Manuscripts of the Tales , lots of undated lyrics on random little slips of paper , and of course all the revisions of Melusina , which she rewrote at least eight times , always changing it . |
| 28 | Although each side made significant compromises — the bill 's proponents rewrote at least four of its sections whilst the Administration withdrew its objections to at least two provisions — they remained divided . |
| 29 | I know that because I grow at least a dozen of them in my allotment . |
| 30 | An outstanding example is provided by the Lua of northern Thailand who grow at least 120 different crops : 75 for food , 21 for medicine , 20 for ceremony and decoration and 7 for weaving and dyeing , a diversity that mimics the diversity of natural vegetation . |