Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun sg] [conj] be at " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may , of course , have been a retrospective opinion that was at least tinged with 25 years ' subsequent experience and challenged , both before and after , the worldwide definitions of the late 1940s which seemed to require that the Vietminh should have been put into either one of two boxes , nationalist or communist , but not both . |
| 2 | The former is a private facility but is at least nearer to the area of greatest potential demand than the latter . |
| 3 | The former is a private facility but is at least nearer to the area of greatest potential demand than the latter . |
| 4 | For the do-it-yourself bar user it is best to settle for a narrow bar that is at least one millimetre thick . |
| 5 | German unification , as severe a jolt to the system as you could imagine , obliged the Bundesbank , the system 's de facto anchor , to adopt a monetary policy that was at odds with the needs of its partners . |
| 6 | Last Thursday , he said on television : ’ If that convergence is not achieved then the establishment of a ( single ) currency could be a tremendous dislocation and be at tremendous cost . ’ |
| 7 | With well written characters the words fit and flow so that the actor can ride with ease , and the thoughts , no matter how disjointed , have a natural quality that is at once ‘ actable ’ . |
| 8 | In other words , the perception is a mental effect that is at one step in the causal chain beyond the physical events . |
| 9 | The second had a double bed but was at the back of the cottage and overlooked an overgrown vegetable patch . |
| 10 | Uniformitarianism triumphed because it provided a general theory that was at once logical and seemingly " scientific " . |
| 11 | He returned it with this comment : ‘ I have never been to a Wesleyan school nor been at the bottom of my form ! ' |