Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb mod] [prep] least [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Palmerston tried to ensure that attachés in the missions to the German courts should at least be able to read German script ; and in the 1840s and 1850s there were efforts to send students of oriental languages from Oxford and Cambridge to Constantinople , where they were to form a new class of oriental secretaries and replace the Greek and Levantine dragomans who had for decades acted as translators and interpreters there . |
| 2 | One suggestion was that 250 of the Jews could at least be disembarked to make room for those on shore . |
| 3 | Visitors will at least be reminded that Venetian art in this period was not an entirely closed world , and that Giorgione 's career is far from being fully understood , but it is difficult to escape the conclusion that now is not the moment , and an exhibition of this kind is not the ideal place to explore such art-historical problems . |
| 4 | It is recommended , however , that LIFESPAN Managers should at least be familiar with every section of the manual . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , it 's hoped the organisers can at least be persuaded to divert flight paths away from local villages in time for the next tattoo . |
| 6 | But forewarned , the difficulties can at least be acknowledged and discussed . |
| 7 | Prest ( 1968 ) notes that studies can at least be consistent , so that situations where all income tax is allocated to labour ( plausible if Fig. 9–9(a) applies ) and all indirect taxation borne by consumers ( plausible if Fig. 9–9(b) applies ) should be avoided because they involve contradictory pictures of the supply side of the economy . |
| 8 | This is that , in my view , if a decision-making body is to exercise powers such as those of serving an intervention notice without giving anybody the opportunity to make representations beforehand , its procedures should provide that those who might otherwise expect to have been allowed to make representations should at least be allowed to make immediate application to set the decision aside and to appeal against it . |
| 9 | But that was not all : Mr Browning said Mr Landor 's rooms were all to be painted , carpeted and furnished and that he thought her own quarters might at least be painted if she contributed only a little to the cost . |
| 10 | On the other hand , while it is true that it is rarely useful to explain behaviour in terms of neural events , our description of psychological processes must at least be compatible with what is known of their neural substrate . |
| 11 | These diseases could at least be given the same priority as other diseases . |
| 12 | Fines could at least be raised to a level comparable pro rata to a parking fine ! |
| 13 | Cautious as the Council 's immediate formulations almost always were , the outcome was that the Latin liturgy was replaced by the vernacular , the cup was offered to the laity , married men would at least be ordained to the diaconate , Protestant Bible societies were to be worked with , the modern world was to be sympathized with rather than condemned . |
| 14 | As the child 's mobility increases , accidents are often related to play , and when constant adult surveillance can not be assured , young children can at least be protected by being put in a playpen or securely fastened in a bouncing cradle ( placed on the floor ) , highchair or pram . |
| 15 | Perhaps a commercial squeeze on popular recreational forms can at least be seen in London and possibly other growing urban centres . |
| 16 | The important point is that librarians may at least be aware of its existence . |