Example sentences of "that it be [prep] least " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Encouraged by the demonstrated efficacy of CBT with disorders such as depression , the social worker can consider that it is at least plausible to use similar strategies with other client difficulties . |
| 2 | For it is characteristic of an agnostic to hold that the existence of a god is a possibility in which there is no good reason either to believe or disbelieve ; and it is characteristic of an atheist to hold that it is at least probable that no god exists . |
| 3 | Its advantage is that it is at least problem-orientated and gives the impression ( which is sometimes justified ) that one has the means to solve it . |
| 4 | It follows that it is at least possible in principle to regard some versions of positivism and some versions of natural law as tending towards a middle position on my spectrum . |
| 5 | It is very difficult to understand the root causes of our failure to take industrial R&D seriously , but Sir Eric thinks that it is at least in part simply a reflection of a more pervasive anti-intellectualism which seems to run through British society . |
| 6 | ‘ Although this is not binding upon your Lordships , the United Kingdom is , of course , a party to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and it is urged that it is at least desirable that the domestic law of the United Kingdom should accord with the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights under the Convention . |
| 7 | The fact that it is at least possible that Molla Yegan and Fahreddin Acemi held office contemporaneously for part of their respective appointments is of some help in trying to establish the identity of de la Broquière 's " grand caliph " ; for although Molla Yegan should have been Mufti in 1433 if his Muftilik and that of Fahreddin Acemi are viewed as successive rather than contemporaneous , de la Broquière 's statement applies rather better to Fahreddin Acemi than to Molla Yegan for several reasons . |
| 8 | The placement of tonic stress is still to some extent an unsolved mystery ; it is clear , though , that it is at least partly determined by the larger context ( linguistic and non-linguistic ) in which the tone-unit occurs . |
| 9 | One essential feature of a switching language is that it be at least as specific as the languages to and from which it supports switching . |
| 10 | In the case of R v Spurge [ 1961 ] 2 All ER 688 it was held that it was at least careless driving where the driver took a vehicle on a road , knowing there was a defect such as defective steering or brakes . |
| 11 | Nothing like this concentration of naval power had ever been seen in Vietnam ; and we know that it was at least inspected by Vietnamese nationalists who may also have tried to make contact with Russian sailors . |
| 12 | The thing was hunched , but even so , Cardiff could see that it was at least nine feet tall and somehow impossibly larger than the burnt corpse he had first seen behind the wheel of that car . |
| 13 | Charles put up all the arguments scepticism could muster , but somehow ended up agreeing with Jacqui that it was at least worth further investigation . |
| 14 | I could see by its outline that it was at least notionally human . |
| 15 | The committee had not been able to establish clearly the cost of nuclear power but agreed that it was at least 2@1/2 times the cost estimated before privatization was considered . |
| 16 | I would have thought that it was at least five hundred , because there are so many hidden homeless who are sleeping on people 's floors . |