Example sentences of "to be [prep] [adv] [num] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 To adapt the old joke , there appear to be at least eight separate opinions detectable in the summary and seven individual assessments occupy all but 38 paragraphs .
2 And there would have to be at least one Liberal Democrat post in Cabinet .
3 There seemed to be at least two possible mechanisms .
4 One must hesitate before projecting these figures 25 years back in time , but it is already clear that for Les nopces de village there had to be at least two treble oboes , since two are required by the ritournelle to the récit .
5 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 ) .
6 There would appear to be at least two different reasons why this might be so .
7 There seem to be at least four overlapping requirements for librarians to take into account .
8 The manner of integration remains to be seen in practice when the two modes of working are operating fully but there seem to be at least three possible strategies .
9 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 .
10 To invest such works a besieging army would have to be at least 700,000 strong , and London would be able to hold out a very long time , as the example of Paris showed ; the Prussian siege there lasted five months , and had things gone a little differently Paris might have been relieved .
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