Example sentences of "[vb base] at [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After incubation and the exertions of tending their young , adults require the rest of the summer to regain condition and undergo at least a partial moult , then to fatten again for their journey back to the wintering grounds . |
| 2 | Probably most languages grammaticalize at least a distinction between proximal ( or close to speaker ) and distal ( or non-proximal , sometimes close to addressee ) , but many make much more elaborate distinctions as we shall see . |
| 3 | Institutions established outside the normal administrative structures having broad responsibilities for regional or area development provide at least a theoretical framework able to ensure a degree of coordination between sectoral government agencies . |
| 4 | How do you adhere to the HN Unit Specification and yet provide at least a context which makes it fully your own college 's HNC/D . |
| 5 | I know that because I grow at least a dozen of them in my allotment . |
| 6 | They want at least a five-year transition period before Europe 's exchange rates are locked for good . |
| 7 | The Experience consists of four young men who look , talk and act as if they 've grown up in good families , graduated from decent schools , and dress as if they shop at just the right places — Paul Smith , say , or Emporio Armani . |
| 8 | Candidates must be members of the RSC , hold at least a masters or PhD degree in chemistry or a related subject and already be actively engaged in research . |
| 9 | • hold at least a Master 's degree or equivalent |
| 10 | You will be surprised at how differently the authors look at even an elementary subject . |
| 11 | Refrigerated display cabinets are micro-processor controlled to ensure that they run at exactly the correct temperature — cold enough to preserve food properly , not so cold that they waste energy . |
| 12 | This vision is like that which Eliot praised in his childhood favourite , Kipling , whose Puck of Pook 's Hill and Rewards and Fairies particularly ‘ give at once a sense of the antiquity of England , of the number of generations and peoples who have labored the soil and in turn been buried beneath it , and of the contemporaneity of the past ’ . |
| 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 | And I now know at least a few words in Greek , Italian and Portuguese ! ’ |
| 15 | You know at least the erm |
| 16 | Similarly , poster campaigns usually last at least a month , and frequently three . |
| 17 | Feminists have always been quick to point out the double standards which operate at virtually every level of discourse . |
| 18 | Summer holidays arrive at just the wrong time for gardeners . |
| 19 | Concern for the loss of such an important economic resource led to research on population dynamics and resulted in close seasons for hunting , even though all the Canadian provinces and 47 of the United States still allow at least a limited harvest of wild mink . |
| 20 | They guess at only the tip of the iceberg of what is going on in these firms . |
| 21 | Treated this way they keep at least a month longer than unwrapped ones . |
| 22 | On television , detective series end at just the right moment , after the criminal has been caught and before the courts turn him loose . |
| 23 | Any one of these drawbacks would , on its own , constitute at least a serious irritation , but a combination of all of them , compounded in so many cases by material poverty , becomes well-nigh intolerable . |
| 24 | you all start at exactly the same level whereas where Claire went I mean , it 's ridiculous to say you should be county standard sports ! |
| 25 | If you are planning to do this yourself , start at least a fortnight before moving day . |
| 26 | Cold dark-matter particles move slowly — hot ones move at nearly the speed of light . |
| 27 | Make sure you leave at least a page at the end of each question in case you suddenly g cos what can often happen is you 're writing the answer to one and you think , oh that relates to the earlier one . |
| 28 | Yet it remains true that unless the typologies are elaborated beyond a mere classificatory and descriptive labelling of different situations — that is , by attempting to specify the conditions under which each type develops — they remain at only a very preliminary stage of theorising . |
| 29 | I do not claim any more for these criteria than that they raise at least the possibility of a belief being affirmable . |
| 30 | According to social security legislation , a " seasonal worker " is a " person whose employment is for part or parts only of the year and those parts fall at approximately the same time each year . " |