Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [vb pp] at least " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luton had the best of the chances … should have scored at least one … thankfully Swindon managed to escape with a point … |
| 2 | Rangers should have had at least one goal . |
| 3 | This perhaps supports the criticism that the Queen 's advisers should not have allowed her to be urged into an immediate invitation to Lord Home and that she should have taken at least a little time fully to apprise herself of the changing political situation and of the views of the Conservative leadership , as it was then emerging . |
| 4 | ‘ BHP should have used at least part of the money to invest in new technology and upgrade and improve its competitive standing in Australia . ’ |
| 5 | He must have stood at least two inches over six feet , and his obvious physical strength caused an unfamiliar quivering to start up deep inside her . |
| 6 | For the next few years American audiences were shown aspects of their society that they could never have expected to have encountered at the movies and it must have struck at least some members of the public that film-going had become a more serious business . |
| 7 | It must have represented at least three weeks wages for the average man in the village . |
| 8 | The essay , on ‘ The Dangers of Smoking ’ , had cost Hank a number of Sundays of hard work , and he estimated that he must have smoked at least eight packs of cigarettes while writing it , but to his astonishment it had won him a hundred dollars . |
| 9 | Now in in the bakery at that time it was one of the most progressive bakeries in the city and it must have employed at least about a hundred bakers . |
| 10 | J. says I must have eaten at least three of the pounds myself , but that 's just his usual exaggeration . |
| 11 | They must have gone at least three miles along the Atherton Road already . |
| 12 | Where the employee works less than 16 hours , but more than eight hours , a week , her continuous employment must have begun at least five years before the qualifying date . |
| 13 | Jumped ‘ The gunman got out of a window and must have jumped at least 25 feet to the ground . |
| 14 | Thus , after two days in which a negotiated settlement to the original squabble seemed possible , an ultimatum to the Vietminh to clear out of Haiphong in two hours led to a bombardment which must have killed at least 1,000 people , many if not most of whom would be described as innocent civilians . |
| 15 | They must have drawn at least 2 games then . |
| 16 | In India , where continued hegemony was now the consideration paramount above all others in the minds of British politicians , a wholehearted attempt at such a policy , by one so well qualified to pursue it , must have seemed at least worth a try . |
| 17 | He must have come at least a mile across the fields and climbed over a stock-proof fence . ’ |
| 18 | Other social pressures , chief among them that of patronage in an age in which patronage had unprecedented importance in Roman society , must have had at least as great an importance . |
| 19 | Shildon-born Mr Jackson said : ‘ To be a good instructor you must have had at least a season 's skiing on snow and if you want to get basic qualifications you would be charged around £3,000 . ’ |
| 20 | Although she was two or three inches shorter than Charlie , she must have weighed at least a stone more than he did ; a genuine heavyweight . |
| 21 | We must have spent at least five minutes talking round the subject . |
| 22 | You 'll have spent at least one day testing everything to see if it 's okay before you show it to the public . |
| 23 | And it can be done on the morning after the end of the previous month , whereas manually our gentleman on the tall stool might have spent at least a week preparing it , and getting them out , and that 's a week that you have n't got your money in . |
| 24 | On the rare occasions when French and Vietminh met and when local concessions might have helped at least to improve the atmosphere — for example the release of hostages taken by Vietminh — the Vietminh for their part denied all knowledge that any had been taken while violent incidents were either attributed to the forces outwith their control , which may well have been true , or else to the anger of the people which , again , may have been true but did not improve matters . |
| 25 | In that respect , Kundera could have fooled at least one of his readers ; but I do see that it belongs to the point of it all that the uncommon Jaromil should be thought humanly representative . |
| 26 | In the time they had been kept waiting , Patrick calculated , the Bonnard Renault could have covered at least five hundred miles of autobahn . |
| 27 | Sometimes it is the Had I But Known what grim secret lurked beneath the smiling exterior I would never have set foot within the door ; Sometimes the Had I But Known then what I know now , I could have saved at least three lives by revealing to the Inspector the conversation I heard through that fortuitous hole in the floor . |
| 28 | Faced with seemingly insurmountable technical problems , which could have consumed at least as much cash again without any guarantee of success , the decision was taken to start from scratch with a far less ambitious system to keep London , if not ahead of , at least on par with , its competitors . |
| 29 | Speed could have had at least 3 goals , and Deane could have had 3 . |
| 30 | There must be something spicy in that combination : Daine could have solved at least three quarters of the crimes in the City just by owning up . |