Example sentences of "[that] at [adv] [art] " in BNC.

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1 In its full-page and horrendously expensive advertisements in the national press , and now ( the latest manifestation ) in a booklet with a cover that at only a few metres distance looks like gold-tooled morocco , it comes perilously close to transgressing those rules of the Advertising Standards Authority that ensure that all ads are honest , fair , accurate , unimpeachable and altogether above reproach .
2 Faced with a client , his mental confidence and the alert efficiency it engenders must automatically be impressed upon the client , so that at once the client feels that he is in the hands of an expert , into whose capable hands all matters concerned with the funeral can be safely delivered .
3 Milton Keynes is picking up the pieces and pleased that at least no one lost a life .
4 If a minimum wage were introduced , Dewhirst would relocate much of its manufacturing to the Far East at the cost of thousands of British jobs , he said , adding that at least a quarter of the jobs in the industry would be lost .
5 The luckless eight-year-old hit the fence so close to the ground that at least a somersault was inevitable .
6 If she is lucky she may find that at least a few children appreciate that ( 4 ) makes for a better drama game than ( 3 ) , and that ( 1 ) is so bland that it does n't feel like a game at all !
7 This was the first device to show quantitatively that at least a straight magnetic field system could contain a hot , high-pressure hydrogen plasma without having it diffuse across the magnetic field too rapidly .
8 The Five Civilised Nations Museum in Muskogee , Oklahoma , that normally shows and sells Indian art , closed down an exhibition in 1991 when it found that at least a third of its ‘ Indian ’ artists had no tribal documentation .
9 Clara calculated that at least a third of the objects laid on the table , by regulation , were not used during the course of any single meal , and yet their function was certainly not one of gracious adornment .
10 Walton ( 1985 ) claims that at least a thousand plants in America have transformed their workforce strategy in an attempt to move from an organizational culture of control to one based on commitment , although only a few have a comprehensive commitment strategy .
11 Ten hours and two platforms later it seemed that at least a few members of the Simonova 's crew were still suffering from the emotional impact of the brooding menace which was represented by the presence of each platform in the docking bay .
12 Even though chronic hepatitis C appears to be an indolent disease in most patients , the observation that at least a fifth develop cirrhosis and as many as a quarter progress to liver failure indicates that chronic hepatitis C is not a benign disease .
13 But the frequency with which I receive such public congratulations ( to the great embarrassment of my nine-year-old son ) seems to indicate that at least a proportion of those who buy the book actually do read it .
14 It appears that about two-thirds of well documented cases of AIDS related sclerosing cholangitis in the United Kingdom will prove infected , and that at least a sixth of patients with cryptosporidiosis will have AIDS related sclerosing cholangitis if subjected to endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography .
15 This would suggest that around 30 per cent of the " living-out " labouring classes were to some extent skilled , but if living-in servants of all classes are included the proportion would shrink to a quarter and if unskilled " manufacturers " are removed , we can conclude that at least a fifth of the men of the labouring classes of the eighteenth century were more or less skilled , that is had something other than " common " labour power to offer on the labour market .
16 An increasingly desperate president unavailingly demanded that at least a token British force should be sent to Vietnam .
17 In Harrogate District two opposing views have been expressed , Harrogate Civic Society seeking a reduction in the allocation by at least we think of er something in the order of ten hectares , David Lock and Associates expressing the view that at least a hundred , a hundred plus a hectares should be allocated .
18 The response by ’ tallies ’ as they like to be known was so good that at least a hundred had to be turned away .
19 Practise stepping quickly from one stance into another , always ensuring that at least the width of a fist separates your leading guards .
20 We showed that at least the British version of socialism could be reversed and that a nation could win back its prosperity and its pride . ’
21 On the positive side one could cite the wider political knowledge acquired by a territory invaded on all sides during 1917–21 , so that at least the many peasants , caught up in military life , like our travelling soldier , might acquire broader interests .
22 ‘ There ; ll be nobody left behind to grieve , ’ carolled Lehrer , looking on the bright side , Kahn , on the other hand , advocated massive investment in deep shelters so that at least the lucky half — or should it be the unlucky half ? — would be left behind to grieve , and to prove that war need not yet be quite abandoned as mankind 's most addictive sport .
23 Snapping out of his brief trance , Mungo supposed Stanley was relieved that at least the shop had survived the flood .
24 The hope that at least the disappearance of the Party might be one thing to emerge from a lost war was said in one report to be more widespread in rural areas than appeared to be so on the surface .
25 The pros and cons of this theory are the subject of much contentious debate by experts , but it would probably be correct to say that the greater number of specialists believe that at least the more bipedal of the dinosaurs , including small and large carnivores , were warm-blooded , active animals .
26 The question we must now turn to is : can one of the subsidiary arguments for the justification of authority supplement the main argument and show that at least the authority of relatively just governments is as wide as they claim it to be ?
27 The important point about statistical methods however is that at least the ones mentioned above really do require only minimal arithmetical ability .
28 But Courtney said he hoped that at least the factual part of the document would be made public .
29 The Committee would have liked to secure legislation which ensured that at least the existence of every computerised system handling personal information was known : such provisions apply in other Western democracies , but the British tradition of shielding National Security matters even from Parliamentary scrutiny militated against such disclosures here .
30 She drove slowly and carefully , her anxious eyes peering ahead , glad that at least the route home was familiar .
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