Example sentences of "[vb pp] at [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not everything was in ruins : rising through the rubble were banks of communications and control consoles , housed in cabinets with flowing , plastic lines that must have been designed at least a century previously . |
| 2 | He must have come at least a mile across the fields and climbed over a stock-proof fence . ’ |
| 3 | The job depended upon careful organisation as it had to be come at only a few days ' notice . |
| 4 | I have looked at quite a few , but there have not been any which have struck me as being ‘ the one ’ . |
| 5 | … no inconsiderable sacrifice to put in the time and effort that this sort of work requires , particularly when , as I fear has been the case so far , it has to be pursued at rather a breakneck speed . |
| 6 | To offer such intercession is considered at least a presumption and at worst occultist , using the magic of candles . |
| 7 | ( 2 ) Under CA 1985 , s131(1) merger relief ( see para 23.1.5 below ) will be available " … where the issuing company has secured at least a 90 per cent equity holding in another company in pursuance of an arrangement providing for the allotment of equity shares in the issuing company on terms that the consideration for the shares allotted is to be provided ( a ) by the issue or transfer to the issuing company of equity shares in the other company … |
| 8 | Finally , for all the majesty of his presidential rule , de Gaulle himself had undergone at least a partial " desanctification " in the years after 1962 . |
| 9 | Anywhere that was obviously occupied he drove on past , as he did with any place that was exposed or too close to the main road , but deserted-looking buildings on village outskirts and elevated rows that were set back from the road generally rated at least a circling-around and a second look . |
| 10 | He would have been happier if the Latin American had made at least a pretence at attempting to beat him down on the charter price . |
| 11 | They think it 's the same teenager who 's made at least a dozen calls to the police and a hospital in Lincolnshire she sometimes uses the name Cindy and sometimes Linda . |
| 12 | As we 've just heard in the headlines Nottinghamshire police have taken the unusual step of releasing a recording of a girl they believe has made at least a dozen calls claiming she 's given birth . |
| 13 | They think it 's the same teenager who 's made at least a dozen calls to the police and a hospital in Lincolnshire since reporting the birth at the weekend . |
| 14 | They think it 's the same teenager who 's made at least a dozen calls to the police and a hospital in Lincolnshire since reporting the birth at the weekend . |
| 15 | Three out of four children are aware of cigarettes before they reach the age of 5 whether the parents smoke or not ; at 10 years old as many as 40% of boys and 28% of girls have had at least a few puffs of a cigarette [ 1 ] and about one third of those who become regular smokers have started before age 9 [ 2 ] . |
| 16 | If they had dominated I expect they would have had at least a few more ( in 20 mins ) . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | Scotch whisky is produced at over a hundred distilleries , widely scattered , but the greatest concentration of the industry is along the River Spey and its tributaries . |
| 19 | He 's a good motivator , has endeared himself to the players and if they 're on your side as a manager you 've got at least a fighting chance . |
| 20 | Erm , I would have to say that 's going to be in the range of five hundred to six hundred , and very much depends to some extent on what happens in the winter months , and I 'm sorry to keep stressing this point , but we have n't yet got twelve months ' experience of operating this particular change , and until we 've got at least a year 's experience , and I think one would have to say , that some of the figures need to be portioned , but equally , you ca n't afford to be too cavalier in terms of your assumptions about that demand might reduce to , and I 'll touch a little later on how you control expenditure in those terms . |
| 21 | It works particularly awkwardly for married women at any age , since they may be employed at quite a different level from their husbands , or not at all . |
| 22 | Any baby soother should be played at least a couple of feet away from her head . |
| 23 | The most dramatic of these increases in percentage terms are , not surprisingly , to be found where the earlier payment was small , as at Lavenham , Totnes and Tiverton , but even major centres such as Norwich and Coventry , which had been assessed at quite a high level in 1334 , showed a percentage increase above the national average . |
| 24 | In the modern world , sport has become at once a symbol of supposed supremacy , a means of keeping healthy , an opiate for the hopeless and the unemployed , an excuse for jingoism , and perhaps most of all , a source of considerable income . |
| 25 | As a result of our involvement , however , it would appear that the NCT is little known at either a national or local level . |
| 26 | Clerical and administrative backup were provided at only a modest level . |
| 27 | This brief survey has provided at least a taste of current applications of mathematics and computers in the service of museums and archaeology . |
| 28 | In the examination itself , divide up the time on the basis of how the marks are likely to be distributed ; if you run out of time for your first answer , quickly sketch a conclusion and move on to the next question , so that you have provided at least a general indication of work in all the questions . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In the face of this varied sense of internal malaise , the return of the Thatcher government , with its young-Turk generation of monetarists and entrepreneurs , marked at least a change of gear , even if the privatization of publicly-owned enterprises was a very minor feature of the Conservative manifesto in 1979 . |