Example sentences of "at least the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prisoners welfare group Nacro , says every prisoner leaving jail should be given at least the basics to make a fresh start . |
| 2 | They were yellow with age and patched many times but at least the boy would be clean and warm . |
| 3 | At least the accountants were happy , as for the first time in England match receipts passed the £l million mark . |
| 4 | At least the government can answer those who say its attitude to retroactive legislation is inconsistent . |
| 5 | The nature of those policies with their emphases on private sector developments , home ownership and small businesses , suggests that in part at least the Government is seeking to produce electoral change by introducing traditional Conservative supporters to areas where the party has been very weak — as , for example , in many of the residential developments in London 's Docklands . |
| 6 | They have to dance to the Russian tune , or at least the government does . |
| 7 | So be it , at least the course was opened . |
| 8 | At least the man was wise enough to know how dangerous he was . |
| 9 | A linguistic item must in general have at least the complexity of a simple sentence to show such properties . |
| 10 | Here at least the output is guaranteed to be an acceptable word , although more than one may result . |
| 11 | You should always , for example , try to make sure that at least the text in the columns lines up across the page-headings and sub-headings may well not but the text really should . |
| 12 | The selection of the lead cases was aimed to ensure that the great majority of the very important points of law which are at issue in all cases are authoritatively decided , and it is hoped that , as a result , clear guidance will be given to the large number of remaining cases which are stayed , leading to settlements ( or at least the elimination of some issues common to the lead cases ) and the avoidance of a multiplicity of litigation . |
| 13 | We are disappointed too , on your behalf , but at least the Hertford offer sounds very interesting , & we shall look forward to hearing more about it . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , at least the newspapers ca n't get it now . ’ |
| 15 | They try to make the weather absorbing , or at least the programmes , by turning the presenters into characters , with jokes and fancy dress . |
| 16 | The Committee would have liked to secure legislation which ensured that at least the existence of every computerised system handling personal information was known : such provisions apply in other Western democracies , but the British tradition of shielding National Security matters even from Parliamentary scrutiny militated against such disclosures here . |
| 17 | At least the existence of a range of alternative modes of provision as between one local authority and another widens the choice available . |
| 18 | Well , at least the pub still had all its windows . |
| 19 | Ideas of identity and insider integrity in the late 1980s are sustained by the same symbols of status and denigration which have existed since at least the mid-1950s . |
| 20 | And it was to restore order , as much as anything , that a nominally Vietnamese administration provided at least the façade of an ‘ independent ’ Vietnamese government . |
| 21 | And referee trying to prize them apart , to keep at least the pretence of a fight going . |
| 22 | The important point about statistical methods however is that at least the ones mentioned above really do require only minimal arithmetical ability . |
| 23 | Do not be misled by assurances from dealers that all oriental rugs or at least the ones they are selling , will automatically increase in value ; this simply is not true . |
| 24 | Heroines , at least the ones he saw on television or in the cinema , were not supposed to look like this . |
| 25 | ‘ The Shiah , for example , or at least the ones in Iran , believe that the Twelfth Imam — who disappeared in mysterious circumstances over a thousand years ago — is going to come back with a huge army and take over the world . ’ |
| 26 | SANDY LYLE conducted another exercise in self-immolation while Chip Beck discovered that his gunpowder was damp and useless but at least the American left a legacy after his first visit to the Suntory World Matchplay Championship . |
| 27 | That 's one thing , at least the Provies give us credit for doing this job . |
| 28 | At least the knights had not been party to the massacre ; they had achieved their task and now looked for suitable reward . |
| 29 | With regard to the first lies my group has come to the conclusion that there is a way in which the employment development budget can be augmented to specifically reserve at least the part of the current posish provision provided by the cooperative development erm we stand by our opinion that there are ways in which that service can be more efficiently administered that this is a sensible way forward . |
| 30 | At least the Herr Direktor had accomplished something . |