Example sentences of "[be] [prep] least [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No staff room or loo or anything I think we 're at least entitled to the odd bun ! |
| 2 | A natural monopoly is sustainable if there is no vector of prices and associated vector of outputs which allow an incumbent 's total costs to be at least covered by revenues but which make entry unattractive . |
| 3 | This meant they would be at least doubling their monthly instalment payments . |
| 4 | Thomson is state-owned and though there has been no overt policy statement from the French Government , it is widely accepted that its attitude towards the merger will be at least coloured by the MoD 's decision . |
| 5 | The offence is committed whether or not the incitement is effective , but it must be at least communicated to the person incited . |
| 6 | Frederic W. Farrar 's Eric , or , little by little of 1858 is the often-quoted example , in which the boys show open affection for each other in a way that would be at least ridiculed in our own harsh world of emotional constraint : |
| 7 | Some of these claims can be considered , and either allowed or disallowed , only by looking at the work as a whole ; others can be at least understood after reading only a few lines : |
| 8 | These rates are likely to be at least matched in the 1990s when , between 1987–8 and 1992–3 , the corporation plans to invest at least £600 million — half through land sales and half through central grant ( LDDC , 1987 ) . |
| 9 | Sheehy said the 9% halftime dividend boost will be at least matched at the year end . |
| 10 | CHICKEN sales are expected to be at least double those of turkey this Easter and in an attempt to close the gap , the British Turkey Federation are spending £100,000 on a national press campaign stressing ‘ British turkey get 's everyone 's vote ’ . |
| 11 | You can cope otherwise with a fine shoe lace , or picture cord and thin piano wire ( which must be at least double the length of the lace ) . |
| 12 | It must be at least double the length of the sleeve , say 26in or 66cm , so that the shorter end does n't enter the sleeve and get stuck . |
| 13 | There had been no improvement in productivity , retail prices went up by 1.5 per cent ( although the real level of inflation was widely thought to be at least double that ) , and wages remained static in real terms . |
| 14 | Gorbachev reportedly insisted that the independence declaration should be at least suspended before negotiations could begin , but this represented a departure from his previous position that the declaration should be completely rescinded . |
| 15 | The exceptions are that , unlike riot and violent disorder , the offence can be committed only when the violence is directed towards the person rather than property , and the threats can not be by words alone ; they must be at least accompanied by threatening gestures . |
| 16 | The others were at least made to look presentable again . |
| 17 | The MGM Building and City Hall were still closed for business , but Susan had a feeling they were at least peopled with night watchmen and janitors . |
| 18 | He had thought they were at least speaking to one another privately , but if Jim had really sworn an affidavit he must have been listening on another telephone . |
| 19 | It was clear to them in 1917 that if they smashed the local power structure , they were at least achieving some short-term practical aims , such as grabbing woods , estates , and livestock . |
| 20 | Whether we take Lorentz 's view that the masses were bored and ready to be distracted or Macpherson 's notion that they had sensed that the movies were at least hinting at new possibilities , it is difficult to avoid being swept along by the romance of those early days . |
| 21 | No matter what the deficiencies were in its security arrangements at Frankfurt , the airline and its insurers were at least entitled to prepare their best defence against a charge of wilful misconduct . |
| 22 | The educational " return " on the capital invested might be increased if all materials were at least identified and access to them coordinated . |
| 23 | More and more of the American leaders were coming to the view that the United States herself would become dangerously exposed unless Germany and Japan were at least contained and preferably defeated . |
| 24 | It may therefore become of some importance , who it was told you that they 'd been in prison together and so were at least known to each other . |
| 25 | The two changes which took place in law and constitution before 1980 were at least permitted by the clerical church in that it agreed with the abolition of the special position of the Roman catholic church , and did not oppose the limited introduction of contraceptives . |
| 26 | By staying together they were at least keeping their problem alive , even if failing to resolve it . |
| 27 | As both manoeuvred for position , whether it was cutting down trees and digging up streets in Hanoi or sending ‘ unauthorized ’ French battalions to various strategic points , the risk — and incidence — of clashes increased and both sides were at least preparing for war . |
| 28 | What is clear is that for different reasons the Nordic states were disinclined to pursue closer economic integration wholeheartedly , or were at least following their customary practice of slow and cautious deliberation to try to pinpoint and resolve in advance any possible difficulties . |
| 29 | ‘ As it happens , ’ says John , ‘ I have more respect for men like Galbraith who are at least prepared to speak their minds , than for those who smiled in my presence but protested I was ‘ not a local man ’ . ’ |
| 30 | But the fact that you 've had a go at the questionnaire means that you are at least beginning to think a little positively . |