Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] at [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is generally possible to isolate at least one compelling selling feature even if it is only that your client 's product is the cheapest . |
| 2 | The explanation of this is to be found in the matters propounded in Chapter One , that is , that members of the human race have a deeply felt need for a ‘ god ’ and a religion , and as almost everybody is reared within a family or group with some kind of religious background , each has at least a lingering allegiance to some form of established religion . |
| 3 | Each has at least had the consolation , if that is the appropriate word , of seeing some of his worst fears come to pass . |
| 4 | ‘ By comparison , there are 1,566 capitalised at under £100m and the maintenance of two markets covering smaller companies no longer makes sense' , say Beeson Gregory . |
| 5 | Our report on page 97 looks at where you stand and your legal rights when it comes to joint finances — and how to avoid getting into difficulties that are not of your own making . |
| 6 | Commenting cautiously on the present situation for the newspaper Kultura , the Chairman of the Archaeo-Geographic Commission of the Russian Academy of Sciences , Academician Sigurd Schmidt , has said that he is convinced that a library belonging to the Muscovite sovereigns does in fact exist , and that , wherever it may be located , it will be possible to find at least fragments of what is left . |
| 7 | This recommended at least perpetual peace between England and Scotland , and even a single monarchy . |
| 8 | ( The housing charity , Shelfter , says that this represents at least 420000 people . ) |
| 9 | This involved at least 1000 colliery and ‘ temporary ’ dwellings and was achieved without any of the controversy associated with the Category D policy in County Durham ( see Blackman , 1987 ) , largely because residents got good modern dwellings close to their original homes . |
| 10 | The steady erosion from astronomical to merely high has at least been good for morale : a further cut after the holidays might just jolly people into voting Tory if there were to be an autumn election . |
| 11 | I mean if we , we 're preaching you should use recycled products we , if we had a few to sell at least |
| 12 | This allows at least a reasonable throughput of air ; the mid-day temperatures are usually around 80 to 100°F , sometimes more . |
| 13 | In the UK it is commonly agreed that this happens at least in part because of the extent to which farming , relative to industrial , interests are " understood " in most Conservative cabinets ( and even some Labour ones ! ) . |
| 14 | I am prepared to answer at once : ‘ Why Christ , of course , and our love for him which is fed and watered by the prayers of his people in his Church . ’ |
| 15 | This shows at least 520 territorial groups recognized as administrative districts ( volosti ) , which in some cases corresponded to true consanguineous clans , but in many other cases were merely ‘ clans ’ of convenience , rather arbitrarily designated by the Russian authorities . |
| 16 | The presentation and graphics are superb , interesting to look at yet still preserving the minimalistic simplicity of the coin-op . |
| 17 | It is interesting to look at how the more extreme case is explained . |
| 18 | This requires at least a further hour to be added to the overlap , thus a minimum of 2–2½ hours in total is justifiable in some circumstances . |
| 19 | The walkers leave John Street in Bradford at 10am ( the first race in 1903 started at 6.35am ) , then make their way to Ilkley via Shipley , Hollins Hill , Menston and Burley . |
| 20 | We felt , however , that the accuracy of the new system , the flexibility of use that the extended range afforded and the improved refit and maintenance arrangements all meant that it would be easier to have at least one boat available at all times , although we were to have only three . |
| 21 | But each of their small squad of 12 won at least one medal in their final count of 16 golds , 13 silvers and nine bronzes the first time this has happened . |
| 22 | If you are breastfeeding this means at least four to five feeds . |
| 23 | For the driver , this means at least 120 lb torque on call from 2550rpm , with a peak of 135 lb ft at 3500rpm . |
| 24 | This means at least 70 per cent of people attending fertility clinics will feel they are failures — not only for having to attend the clinic , but also for not having succeeded with treatment ; they may also feel they have failed the clinic and the doctor , as well as themselves , their partners and families . |
| 25 | This gives at least some indication how multimedia databases can be constructed . |
| 26 | The question is how far a company exports the mores of its own country to another ( as the US tends to encourage by devices such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act , although this does at least exempt ‘ greasing the palm ’ of minor officials ) . |
| 27 | However distasteful it may be to some people , this does at least provide a rational explanation for the behaviour of those bystanders , even if it does not excuse them . |
| 28 | This does at least make him think of the kinds of life to be found in the sea . |
| 29 | Ex-servicemen lost their dependants ' allowances along with their donation the following year and in June 1921 , when the number of registered unemployed stood at over two million , unemployment benefit rates were cut . |
| 30 | Officials predicted that a combination of debt rescheduling , additional aid commitments and improved invisibles such as tourism , would check the balance-of-payments deficit and improve the country 's reserves , which by mid-1989 stood at only $500,000,000 , down by half since the end of 1988 . |