Example sentences of "[subord] at [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | No matter how bad the storm was she had to go on deck , where at least the air was clean . |
| 2 | Only when she was halfway there did she remember that this , after all , was n't Chipchester , where she had spent the last six months at college — nor even Athens , where at least the drivers and pedestrians expected to engage in constant warfare — and that perhaps she should have checked the traffic before crossing … |
| 3 | She walked along to the little café , where at least the umbrellas and the plane trees gave some shade . |
| 4 | They ordered calvados and played canards , dipping the sugar cubes in the tawny liquid so that the surfaces just met , the liqueur drawn up through the sugar , flushing and softening it until at just the right moment , a split second before the sweetness might dissolve and fall into the drink and spoil it , you tipped your head back and took the lump on your tongue and either let it melt there , or gnashed the singingly sweet grit of the sugar grains . |
| 5 | Basically , Mr Porceddu intends to jail every troublemaker in sight — a minimum of two days for offensive drunkenness , automatic detention until at least the first round is over for anything more serious . |
| 6 | First , as until at least the late 1960's the Club was in poor straits financially — mostly , but not entirely , to do with low membership , there was no way in which it could contemplate buying out the bonds either at par or in instalments ( of not less than £2 10s. 0d. per bond ) as allowed by the rules . |
| 7 | Norman Lamont will stay until at least the next Budget in March to have the chance to take credit for next year 's expected economic recovery . |
| 8 | The wet spell has been replaced by a cold , dry front which will last until at least the New Year . |
| 9 | Thus the popular EC argument that HDMAC is necessary because digital HDTV will not be a reality until at least the year 2000 , has been turned on its head . |
| 10 | The Bishop said the translator had attended very carefully to all the criticisms and it now seemed likely that we would have to wait until at least the end of the summer before the English edition appears . |
| 11 | Hewlett-Packard Co has had to delay shipment of its new LaserJet 4L printer because of a defective part , US PC Week reports : the printer , originally set for general release May 3 , has been delayed until at least the end of this month , and possibly until mid-June , because of a flaw in the paper sensor , the company said ; the faulty sensor , which sits under the paper tray , causes the printer to communicate a ‘ paper out ’ message and stop printing , even though the tray has paper in it the firm said . |
| 12 | On the other hand a diary entry such as ‘ ring X ’ is effective and if the entry is some way in the future it may be necessary to amplify with a trigger of the form ‘ ring X re Y ’ and to have easily accessible some factual data such as the X telephone number and some data re Y. In a different context a car driver will develop a strategy to ensure that he does not run out of petrol , he may rely on a light which appears when the tank is nearly empty or he may calculate from his expected travelling that he need not concern himself about the issue until at least the next weekend , or he may programme himself to react to the fact that he is approaching a particular garage . |
| 13 | Benelux in particular objected to the vigour with which de Gaulle and France were pushing the Fouchet Plan , and argued that fundamental decisions such as those raised by the plan should be deferred until at least the question of British membership of the EEC had been resolved . |
| 14 | CDS is committed to supporting that hardware until at least the year 2000 — it still builds and sells them — though there will be no further additions to the series . |
| 15 | The Dunedin study ( quoted by De Melker as confirming that children with persistent effusions at a young age have problems with learning , language , and development until at least the age of 7–9 years has now produced follow up data ( reported at the international symposium on otitis media with effusion , Fort Lauderdale , 1991 ) to age 16 which shows that these educational and developmental problems continued , and that reading age in untreated patients remained two years behind their treated controls . |
| 16 | The kings of the Mercians until at least the time of Ceolwulf ( 821–3 ) claimed descent from either Penda or one of his brothers ( see Appendix , Fig. 8 ) . |
| 17 | One reason for the weakness of the Communist movement in Mexico is that intellectuals were effectively incorporated into the system until at least the late 1960s , the Mexican government ‘ preferring the price of appeasing or coopting intellectuals to the perils of ignoring or alienating them ’ . |
| 18 | The retention of title is an arrangement whereby the seller of goods retains title to the goods until at least the buyer of the goods pays for them . |
| 19 | It was still widely accepted that only major rulers ( kings and the republic of Venice ) could send and receive ambassadors ; and it was not clear until at least the later sixteenth century that the status of a diplomat depended on his position in this still embryonic hierarchy of ranks and not , irrespective of his title , on the standing of the ruler he represented . |
| 20 | In 1860 the foreign secretary urged British diplomats not to use unnecessarily " this very costly channel of communication " , and until at least the end of the nineteenth century the ministers in China and Japan , to save money , were still guided , except in serious emergencies , by despatches which took five weeks to reach them via the Suez Canal , or four if they were sent across Canada . |
| 21 | The 36-year-old American is unlikely ever again to have such a good chance to lift a 10th title , with Monica Seles absent and Graf out of the way until at least the final . |
| 22 | The next stop is to try and determine the best arrangement of the components on the board , and it often helps if at least the major parts ( large transformers , relays etc. ) are to hand so that the designer can visualise the arrangement of the components . |
| 23 | I decided not to protest , because at least the whole Report would be published , and teachers would be able to read the total rationale . |
| 24 | Even so the repression , thanks mainly to the moderating role of Lerroux and the Radicals , stopped short of the extremes urged by the monarchist right and much of the CEDA : judicial executions were few , while at least the left remained legal and the Catalan Statute in being . |
| 25 | It is strange , however , that Garrick did not subscribe for Leapor 's volumes , since at almost the same time he subscribed for the Irish bricklayer poet , Henry Jones , though this may have been done to please Chesterfield . |
| 26 | Dolphins have been hunted in Japanese coastal waters since at least the seventeenth century , when drive fisheries were first reported . |
| 27 | ABOVE : Lodgemore Mill has been in use since at least the 12th century and is still in use for cloth manufacture . |
| 28 | Those qualities owed little to the opportunities provided by formal schooling or family background : the Pooles had been tanners in the Stowey area since at least the early eighteenth century , and Tom Poole 's father , the eldest of four gifted brothers , ran a large and thriving tanning business from his Castle Street home . |
| 29 | in Trafalgar Square , central London ; a church has stood on this site since at least the thirteenth century . |
| 30 | This shape of coffin had been in use throughout western Europe since at least the middle of the fourteenth century , as shown by an illuminated manuscript in the Royal Library , Brussels , depicting the burial of victims of the Great Plague of Tournai in 1349 . |