Example sentences of "[prep] least [vb infin] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a convergence would at least involve the surrounding software . |
| 2 | She could at least make the best of her meeting with Veronica , though . |
| 3 | Gould was sacked after a stormy 14 months following Albion 's failure to at least make the Third Division promotion play-offs . |
| 4 | The tails should fold round the returns at the corners of the pelmet board and should extend round the front to at least cover the pinned pleats of the swag . |
| 5 | By using nonsexist language we can at least avoid the overt implication that males are the standard and norm of all humanity . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The only major reference work using systematic names i Chemical Abstracts and that does at least cross-reference the common trivial names . |
| 8 | To hear Scotland , for example , referred to as ‘ England ’ is a venerable howler which does at least represent the unequal nature of a relationship . |
| 9 | Equally , the value of professionals who are trained and experienced in rehabilitation can hardly be in doubt , and all doctors should at least understand the basic concepts . |
| 10 | If applied to the British parliamentary system , this would at least acknowledge the equal partnership of women and men in government . |
| 11 | In this war of nerves , it was infinitely reassuring to know she could at least get the occasional barb past that glacial exterior . |
| 12 | But whether or not the contract has anything to say on this subject , an employer should at least explore the possible alternatives to dismissal , such as allowing you to make other transport arrangements or seeing if you can be fitted in elsewhere within the organisation . |
| 13 | If the champagne bottle had survived she 'd probably be in that state anyway , and it would at least postpone the inevitable for a while ; she did n't feel up to coping with the consequences of her behaviour just yet . |
| 14 | While useful , I think it would have been preferable to show the entire sentence , but you can at least note the identified points and refer to the main body of text later . |
| 15 | Books , and there are so many of them , on Cicero 's political thought might at least note the desperate vagueness of his ideas on the provincials , which in the case of the Gauls amounted to contempt . |
| 16 | Before the Secretary of State rattles on yet again about European figures , our minimum wage policy and our alleged doom and gloom , and as he has proved himself completely unable to say anything constructive , will he today at least ask the Prime Minister to chuck it in now , call an election and let us get on with the job ? |
| 17 | He thought with envy of the young locum doctor standing in for him at home , seeing his patients at this very moment , and then he thought of his ex-wife , and his ex-cat , which used to sleep on their bed , and then with interest and longing of flukes , the flukes of absorption that can at least put the unforgettable at some merciful remove . |
| 18 | To refuse to at least debate the moral issue raised by Mitchell is to operate a form of moral censorship . |