Example sentences of "did [prep] least [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lack of atmosphere , extending even to the non-appearance of MacFinall 's cymbal-and-drum ensemble , which has driven the pulse of many a West Indies advance in the past , was again painfully evident as 12,000 deigned to stay away , but King Dyall did at least make a cameo appearance in an outfit that for once defied description . |
| 2 | I do n't imagine that he felt any easier immediately I applied the hot blankets , but suggestion is a powerful weapon in the armoury of the doctor , and he did at least manage a smile . |
| 3 | In reality they are too powerful to be challenged head on , although the thrift horrors did at least prompt the first congressional hearing into their finances for more than 30 years . |
| 4 | And while there were crudely economic motives in , for example , sending Hitchcock to reconstruct English and Oriental settings in Italy and Germany for his first film , The Pleasure Garden ( 1925 ) , it did at least show that he was as aware as the Film Society 's membership of the backwardness of British films . |
| 5 | After some unhelpful discussion , which did at least confirm that the main concern of the United Kingdom delegation was that of discovery , that was dealt with in Article 23 , Article 1 retaining some residual signs of the drafting history . |
| 6 | But the Left did at least sense that Fascism presented an imminent threat to Britain and this is more than can be said for some of those holding the responsibility for Britain 's foreign policy and ultimate defence . |
| 7 | Dr Lange did at least pay him respect . |
| 8 | It would hardly have been possible for it to support beauty and extravagance and pleasure at the expense of mere survival , but it did at least hint that such a view could be held , and its mere admission of this possibility was to Clara profoundly satisfying . |
| 9 | Through their teaching and their textbooks , the Wittenberg astronomers did at least promote Copernican mathematics , but it would be wrong to portray them as receptive to a new cosmology . |
| 10 | While the procedure was to some extent artificial and led to conclusions that did not always stand up to later study , it did at least mean that the different forms of early Christian teaching could now be admitted for discussion , and the possibility of real conflict between opposing views recognised as a natural and proper element in the development . |
| 11 | If it was sad that in England in 1963 his form finally drifted away , he did at least give his last fine Test innings , an unbeaten 74 , to the Manchester crowd , a happy choice of venue in view of his connection with Radcliffe and the university . |
| 12 | To judge by Vincent 's subsequent letter of 15 October , it did at least bring them back into contact . |
| 13 | He did n't take a positivistic line and argue that the sentence ‘ God exists ’ is literally meaningless , but he did at least think that it was , expressed a proposition which no reasonable person would accept . |
| 14 | Centrifugal launchers did at least recognise a genuine need , even if they were not themselves the solution . |
| 15 | But the other scheme did at least indicate where the stalls would be , taken that into account . |
| 16 | The move to Tembisa did at least reduce her worry about being detained again by the police after her escape . |
| 17 | The Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact of 1939 , however morally repugnant , did at least provide the USSR with a breathing-space in which military preparations could be accelerated ; the pact , however , was broken off in June 1941 when German forces invaded the USSR 's western borderlands , and in the four years that followed the USSR lost over 26 million citizens and suffered material damage on an unimaginable scale . |
| 18 | Parsons 's efforts to build a general theory of action , though criticised in some quarters , did at least provide an ambition for social research as something it could and ought to contribute to . |
| 19 | Quite often these royal summit meetings produced as little as their much-vaunted 20th-century counterparts , but , like them , they did at least keep open channels of communication . |
| 20 | He remembered how , as a child , by dozens of small acts of perversity , he had brought his mother 's wrath down upon himself , so that she did at least notice his existence . |
| 21 | Relieved , Mrs Browning did at least say , ‘ You are the best of nurses , dear , and I miss your skill . ’ |
| 22 | The diffuse , even messy arrangements that characterised the old order did at least encourage change . |
| 23 | Despite its acknowledged faults , classical economics did at least constitute a complete system in the sense that , if one accepted its fundamental presumption of full employment , the magnitudes of all of the remaining macroeconomic variables could be determined . |
| 24 | Ultimately the Marino family surrendered the site to the governor who sold it on to another Milanese businessman , Carlo Omodeo , who did at least allow a member of the Marino family to live in part of it — at an agreed rent . |
| 25 | If neither Herbert Wilcox , Michael Balcon nor Victor Saville started off with much in the way of imaginative flair , they did at least know what was required to build successful enterprises . |
| 26 | Cumbersome and unwieldy , these record/playback devices did at least permit shows to be prerecorded in advance of transmission and allowed for a very crude form of editing . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , Mr Pozsgay did at least emerge from his six-year stint at the head of the ministry as a man who deserved credit for trying . |
| 28 | It is a popular story that the Fascists did at least get the trains to run on time , and had that been all things might have turned out for the better , but the Duce also evolved the theory of Italia Irredenta , ‘ Unrecovered Italy ’ . |
| 29 | It seems clear that the man who failed to secure peace in our time , did at least find a personal tranquillity on the banks of the River Churn . |
| 30 | Dying inside , she wanted to cry , and if his words did nothing else they did at least stiffen her disintegrating spine . |