Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [be] at [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The FAO said that the annual maize harvest in 11 countries was expected to be at least 25 per cent down and that countries which would normally export maize , notably South Africa and Zimbabwe , would themselves be seeking imports of the regional staple . |
| 2 | A family member who did not react to the craziness of Chemical Dependency or other addictive disease would be a very strange , unreactive , person who might well be considered to be at least odd if not ill or crazy himself or herself for not reacting . |
| 3 | There can be said to be at least three groups of predator assemblage distinguishable by this form of analysis . |
| 4 | There can be said to be at least three main schools of management theory addressing the people problem : the classical school embodying the work of F. W. Taylor and Henri Fayol , the behaviourist school founded by Elton Mayo and the quantitative school which appears to have had its origins in the operations research techniques developed during World War Il . |
| 5 | Negotiators for 33,000 manual workers at Ford Motor Company yesterday put in a bid for a ‘ substantial rise ’ — thought to be at least 10 per cent . |
| 6 | So by the 1930s there were thought to be at least 10 million cyclists — ten times the number of private motorists . |
| 7 | There are a number of different varieties of quarks : there are thought to be at least six " flavors , " which we call up , down , strange , charmed , bottom , and top . |
| 8 | There are thought to be at least 12 wolves in the area , including juveniles . |
| 9 | It would seem to me that if you 've got to prove a case that there that it is the place of last resort , and that place of last resort has got to be at least five thousand dwellings , you are in a place where there is absolute massive growth of demand , and improbably no one has been able to meet a five year supply of housing land , if you are to meet it in the term , if y if those are the criteria to meeting the terms of th of this sort of plan , and in fact what I would submit is that a new settlement solution is very much a part and parcel of a long term solution , and that 's where essentially the County strategy is quite right in proposing a new settlement in the context of the greenbelt , because also greenbelt is a long term solution . |
| 10 | states , they 've got to be accurate , they 've got to be at least half a mile apart |
| 11 | for every successful candidate there are bound to be at least two who were pipped at the post , who jumped the final fence only to find that the client had chosen one of their fellow front-runners : and these were the ones who — by and large — responded to the survey rather than the successful ones . |
| 12 | There is also bound to be at least two low-end , low-cost single chip RS/6000 models , the M20 and M20A PowerStations , along with mid-range systems , upgrades to existing machines , and finally the results of IBM 's development work with network server company Auspex System Inc , Santa Clara , California , first reported here one year ago ( UX No 369 ) . |
| 13 | They 're bound to be at least sixty , to eighty pounds a pan I would think , if not |
| 14 | The yew tree is estimated to be at least two thousand years old and required drastic surgery to make it safe . |
| 15 | At the end of February total casualty figures among the 700,000-strong allied force were estimated to be at least 131 killed in action and 100 in accidents or other incidents . |