Example sentences of "[verb] at least [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Draize test and the LD50 , which has at least stayed the course since 1927 , are both relatively straightforward and easy to regulate . |
| 2 | We maybe in the depths of the recession but the Maastricht treaty has at least opened the way for one enterprise … and it has n't been ratified yet . |
| 3 | Each has at least had the consolation , if that is the appropriate word , of seeing some of his worst fears come to pass . |
| 4 | The committee , which is to report before Christmas , is expected at least to recommend the lifting of the ban on scientific whaling and to permit a target catch of 100 minke whales . |
| 5 | With regard to the relics , I was prepared at least to consider the possibility that there could have been some sort of automatic response in the nerves and muscle fibres triggered by the lightning . |
| 6 | On the rare occasions when French and Vietminh met and when local concessions might have helped at least to improve the atmosphere — for example the release of hostages taken by Vietminh — the Vietminh for their part denied all knowledge that any had been taken while violent incidents were either attributed to the forces outwith their control , which may well have been true , or else to the anger of the people which , again , may have been true but did not improve matters . |
| 7 | In that space , a realistic attempt to produce serious Israeli-Arab negotiations could have at least begun the process of denying figures such as Saddam their greatest propaganda card . |
| 8 | I meant at least to insulate the nest with some polystyrene ceiling tiles , but I was afraid of trapping the animal inside . |
| 9 | Those with a second home should pay at least double the community charge for the area , then they would be making some recompense for taking up properties that could be used for people who need them . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | But although by themselves they do not take us this far , they do at least point the way . |
| 13 | It would have been far better to have at least made the attempt — even if it might have ended in disaster — than be left with such intense regrets and nostalgia for what might have been . |
| 14 | Whether the end result will lead to better governmental accounting is impossible to say , but it seems clear that major steps are being taken and will continue to be taken at least to understand the commonalities and differences between accounting for businesses and accounting for governmental units . |
| 15 | Erm tt er when it came to the children erm and he did n't know the date of birth erm you should 've at least got the ages of them |
| 16 | An analysis of routine policing at least allows the possibility of empirical research being undertaken on police forces operating in divided societies , which is itself important because studies in the sociology of policing focus almost exclusively on police forces in stable liberal democracies . |
| 17 | The so-called Helsinki warning , also dismissed as unreliable ( and apparently for better reason ) , had at least saved the lives of those who would otherwise have occupied the vacant seats on Flight 103 . |
| 18 | It is unlikely that either side in this arrangement had much hope that it would last , but it had at least enabled the government of Louis-Philippe to avoid an embarrassing public debate , which a trial might well have become . |
| 19 | I had hardly even drawn before ; my attempts were inept , but I fumbled on until I had at least mastered the proportions of the human body ’ . |
| 20 | Those who could feed themselves had at least had the choice of not eating the tapioca that they disliked and going hungry . |
| 21 | She had assumed , when she was told that Mills ' murder had been checked thoroughly for any spying connections , that the enquiry had at least had the semblance of efficiency , if not diligence . |
| 22 | Feeling pleased that I had at least negotiated the day 's essentials , and the afternoon being well advanced , I thought it would be good to have a more leisurely look round Wenceslas Square and find somewhere to eat . |
| 23 | But it does at least prompt the question whether the suppression in them , not now of individuality but of individual interest in the sense of ownership , is only likely to be volunteered where the amount of that interest is seen by the prospective volunteer as marginal to his other interests , concerns and obligations . |
| 24 | The current afternoon start on Sundays does at least give the players a little weekend leeway and one morning to mow the lawn , lie in , or say hello to the wife . |
| 25 | If the wo n't touch the landowners , it does at least recognise the Army , and no such hands-off attitude applies to the old soldiers . |
| 26 | Whatever one may think of Sex , Lies and Videotape — — and it does n't have to be much — it does at least address the question of the gaze and of masculine sexuality . |
| 27 | ‘ Well , in this day and age that approach does at least have the benefit of novelty , I 'll grant you that , Shannon , my dear . ’ |
| 28 | Butler 's appeal does at least have the merit of being based on an admitted breach of the County Court Rules . |
| 29 | plus at the end of the day when he comes in , you 've at least got the chance to say right , you 've got your homework to do , switch every thing off , sw put all these machines away and |
| 30 | By choosing a relatively small company , we have at least avoided the complications of group or consolidated accounts ! |