Example sentences of "that they be [prep] least " in BNC.
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| 1 | Angered by suggestions that his conduct was inexplicable and that he had not offered any constructive criticism during a 3½ hour inquest into Yorkshire 's dismal summer , Boycott claimed that the cricket sub-committee would not accept any form of responsibility : ‘ They have been in charge for five of the last six years but will not agree that they are at least partly to blame for the fact that Yorkshire cricket is in a mess . ’ |
| 2 | Mono-unsaturated fatty acids were , until recently , considered ‘ neutral ’ in their effect on the concentration of cholesterol in the blood but new evidence suggests that they are at least as beneficial as polyunsaturated fatty acids . |
| 3 | There are those who claim that canvassing the votes of the electorate is a waste of time : that they are at least as likely to vote for you if you leave them alone as they are if you go round and bother them at night . |
| 4 | Current research assumes that crime and justice do not exist in a social vacuum , that they are at least partially political creations , and that they are inextricably involved in society . |
| 5 | While it is not possible to demonstrate that any of the Continental braids are of Anglo-Saxon , even Kentish , manufacture , the very close similarity between some examples on each side of the Channel makes it possible that they are at least from the same source . |
| 6 | Because the vitreous enamel inside panels act as insulators which prevent the microwave energy from arching , it is safe to use metal pans , trays and trivets provided that they are at least 1.5in away from the side walls and the same distance away from each other . |
| 7 | That they were at least in part effective was clearly the case . |
| 8 | During the first few tens of Ma Jupiter would cool so quickly that it hardly matters what the initial temperatures were provided that they were at least a few times 10 000 K. After a few hundred Ma , the exact time depending on the initial temperatures but in any case a small fraction of Jupiter 's lifetime , the rate of cooling would be far less . |
| 9 | Those of the cast who remembered the euphoria of Taunton were disappointed , but they comforted themselves with the fact that they were at least on , something which three days previously had looked most unlikely . |