Example sentences of "[prep] least at [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The uneasy feeling that , despite his claim to make things out of ideas , Berkeley has ‘ banished all that is real and substantial out of the world ’ , can be articulated by suggesting that , whatever philosophers might want to say about ‘ real things ’ , common sense will want to speak about them in ways which , at least at first sight , are not licensed by their being constructed out of ideas . |
| 2 | Focus only on those things you fancy trying , at least at first . |
| 3 | At least at first , sharing a double bed is unlikely to be comfortable or practical for either patient or carer . |
| 4 | But remember that this could result in isolation , at least at first . |
| 5 | At least at first , the jump from the Friday pay-packet to the monthly pay-cheque can create what seems like two or three weeks of cash starvation . |
| 6 | And although suicide is a conscious act , whether it is carried out ( or even contemplated ) ‘ when the balance of the mind is disturbed ’ , and anorexia is , at least at first , more of an unconscious process , I think there is a ‘ life of anorexia ’ too , in which the act-as-possibility is never entirely absent . |
| 7 | Surprisingly , perhaps , at least at first glance , this promotion was secured by Colonel Haldane 's interest with the commissioners , for John Main had been firmly attached to the Cunningham interest in burgh politics . |
| 8 | His sadism is satisfied , at least at first , within the permitted limits of naval discipline , but it is accompanied by unpredictable moods and actions which disturb and perplex the crew to the point of mutiny , terrified as they are by the hostile surveillance of the officers and the malicious spying which William Bentley the midshipman carries on by his uncle 's order . |
| 9 | Incomprehensible — at least at first glance — to those not familiar with the campaign , the image has much in common not only with British TV commercials but also with some branches of avant-garde photographic art in Britain which deliberately borrow cool and elliptical presentation techniques for other ends . |
| 10 | The creature 's opponent was a man , at least at first sight . |
| 11 | A strategy of re-investigation by the police itself might not , at least at first , provide an invincible check on mistakes . |
| 12 | Except that in the case of Schaffhausen , there was a rather different reason , at least at first . |
| 13 | Clearly there may well be more than an element of exaggeration in this insistence , but it makes more sense if we accept their view that a great many features of literature that might not normally be recognized , at least at first sight , as terms of a comparison , nonetheless have a metaphorical or analogical function . |
| 14 | Few of these people — at least at first — questioned the importance of the sacraments , but the quality of the life that was led was very important to them . |
| 15 | Once we grant ourselves the licence to collect the physical artefacts of software , there remain , at least at first sight , respects in which software is both like , and unlike , traditional museum objects . |
| 16 | Finally , many of the issues in pragmatics have arisen historically from this particular vantage point , and to understand them one must at least at first approach from the same direction . |