Example sentences of "[be] at [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you leave school at 16 the training should be at least to the standard of YTS . |
| 2 | Because of the Swamp they had come so far south that they must now be at least on a level with the path where they had fought with the sturdy beggars although the northern ride must lie between them and it . |
| 3 | Fourth , opportunities for further in-service training should be more generous for further education teachers than for those in schools and , in any event , they should be at least on the same scale . |
| 4 | Yes , do n't think we were n't watching you … measurable weight loss needs to be at least in the region of 2 lb a week in order to provide that reward so essential to sustained effort . |
| 5 | By these measures it sought to ensure that direct entry and thesis-entry members were at least of an equivalent calibre to student graduates . |
| 6 | Developments had either been realised or were at least in the advanced stages of negotiation in the bulk of its area . |
| 7 | Contents are at least to the fore . |
| 8 | In many cases they are now wider in scope than the function which gave them birth ; in others they are at least on a par with the sales function . |
| 9 | There is , I know , much gnashing of teeth , banging of beer glasses etc. about the non-appearance of the Ogwen & Carneddau and Llanberis guides , but both these tomes are at least on the horizon now . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | We are at once in the realm of ‘ when is a monster not a monster ? ’ |
| 12 | When I say " I " and add the past-tense verb , I am at once in the realm of untruth . |
| 13 | Where do we locate political behaviour in what is at least for the moment a mass democracy ? |
| 14 | Their level of expertise and commitment is at least on a par with that of the police and fire service . |
| 15 | It is at least worth a footnote to any textbook on handling disputes that few employers have to contend with their management arm solemnly sitting down and condemning the negotiating strategy and then publicly relating their views to the press . |
| 16 | Mrs Thatcher was at least in a functional sense , beginning to show greater capacity for involvement in the life of the community , if without the passion of Edward Heath in the past . |
| 17 | Marx argued throughout Capital that although slaves might be more at the mercy of the whims and fancies of their owners than wage workers , it was at least in the interest of the owner to ensure the minimum welfare of his slaves , since they were his property . |