Example sentences of "at [adv] an [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The medical , legal and local government discipline should have the facilities to enable their potentially bilingual students to study for at least an additional term in order to enhance their language and cultural knowledge to a defined level and to extend their professional expertise to accommodate the main different professional dimensions — such as Islamic matrimonial law and sickle cell anaemia .
2 Minimum requirements for run-time systems are a standard Stride board and renderer hosted by at least an 80386 machine with co-processor .
3 The Crime and Punishment notebooks expend considerable effort trying to establish an overarching reason or at least an empirical scatter of factors , and failing .
4 It looks , therefore , as if there is at least an empirical connection between academic autonomy and academic freedom .
5 Such pressures can lead to lack of environmental awareness or at least an understandable questioning of whether spending time or money or both on improving classroom ecology justifies the effort involved .
6 WHO suggests there should be , and , if not a common way of paying for it , at least an agreed means of approaching the difficulties involved .
7 The iconography of a state 's coinage viewed over a period of time can reveal a certain amount of information about the aspirations of that state , since the choice of designs will normally reflect the matters considered important by at least an influential body in that state and will present these important matters in a particular way .
8 Learning , then , is a misnomer , or at least an inadequate way of construing higher education .
9 Moreover , those who have greatest need of the street should have at least an equal right to its use , so that children and elderly people .
10 They all have interest in the scheme so that we would believe the thing to do would be to have at least an equal number of employer appointed trustees and employee appointed trustees and the employee in this , I 'm using it globally , so it does cover all three groups and we also believe it would be advisable because er inevitably the e er members er probably would n't know a lot about pensions themselves to have an independent trustee from an independent company who specialises in pensions and pensions laws and could a advise them on exactly what the law says and what they they 're legal duties etcetera are .
11 For all that , it disturbs me to see him portrayed as Hüsker Dü 's creative force when Grant Hart had at least an equal hand in writing their material .
12 After all , Snow forcefully reminded us that science had at least an equal claim to that of the humanities in the full development of the mind of the student : they were two cultures , formally equal in status .
13 It must have taken Summerchild at least an extra minute in each direction ; as I recall it from those evenings fifteen years ago , he walked at a much more reflective pace , as if slowed by some inner weight .
14 Sex education draws together much of the Whitehouse ‘ philosophy ’ , for not only does it explicitly focus upon the young , but also it carries at least an implicit stance on the role and utility of the contemporary family .
15 It has so far been assumed that while the corporate sector 's response to consumer demand may be imperfect , that what is responded to is at least an authentic expression of consumer tastes .
16 Undercutting , polishing and pitting up to about 3 m ( 10 ft ) confirms that wind has played at least an important part in their development , while their restriction to areas of erodible sandstone providing a large amount of material for sand blasting also strongly suggests the part played by the wind .
17 That is , to put it at its most basic , the respondent is at least an adequate reporter of his or her attitudes , beliefs and other subjective states , his or her relationship with others , past , present and intended behaviour , and about objective features of the respondent 's life .
18 All have been inspected and found to offer high standards of cleanliness and at least an adequate range of equipment .
19 Whatever kind of music we are writing , we must move forward with the most essential factor ( usually melody ) for at least an adequate distance before turning back to consider the rest .
20 ‘ Any Englishman , ’ said Thiercelin between sips , ‘ who is drifting about Vienna at present , supposedly as a tourist , has at least an even chance of being one of Pitt 's spies .
21 It all fizzes along at quite an invigorating rate without ever threatening to rise above the gaudily superficial .
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