Example sentences of "[conj] at least the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes he thought that he needed to feel like a woman , a younger woman or at least The Other Woman ; certainly he needed to feel like The Young Man . |
| 2 | I 'll reiterate here that the complexity — or at least the perceived complexity — of the Alpha 's operation could limit its market as far as first time buyers go . |
| 3 | A well-established approach denies that the public interest is the relevant standard , or at least the primary standard , by which company law should be assessed . |
| 4 | If I could just get a role doing some of the falls in the action replays , say , I could save him from horrible injury , or at least the odd booking . |
| 5 | He found it in Protestantism , or at least the Calvinist version of it . |
| 6 | Such works are not computer-generated , the skill and expertise ( or at least the greatest part of these ) derives from the user of the system . |
| 7 | Because of the threat which " Communism " , or at least the Soviet Union , is believed to pose to " the free world " , we still need to defend democracy ( it is argued ) , but in real , military and ideological terms , not in theory . |
| 8 | One way to avoid such discrimination — or at least the legal grounds for it — is to supply a lawyer 's opinion to the effect each edition is libel-free . |
| 9 | Such banquets are portrayed for us on the Bayeux Tapestry , or at least the early stages of them . |
| 10 | But for visitors and residents at Weston-super-Mare , and its neighbours , Burnham-on-Sea and Clevedon , the flags are an assurance that all is well with the world , or at least the sandy bit between the town and the sea , for they show that the beaches meet European standards of cleanliness that seem to elude their bigger rivals . |
| 11 | Two or three times a week after that Bridhe , now alert for her , would notice Luch , or at least the slight bulge in the tapestry where she hid . |
| 12 | I set her the first day to clean the floors starting at the top and expecting her to reach the bottom at the end of the day or at least the last floor , but Ellen she had not managed more than two rooms in eight hours and those not well done . |
| 13 | By the end , or at least the last week , of the tour England ‘ B ’ were looking a much better all-round side than when they started . |
| 14 | In 1867 Newman Hall visited America , or at least the northern states , where he was assured a warm welcome because of his support of the North during the recent war . |
| 15 | Since I was living with the most out gay man I know , I was n't short of an opinion on anything to do with anything in faggotdom , or at least the social side of it . |
| 16 | If the war brought them more into line with popular feeling , then it was not because they had changed , but because popular opinion ( or at least the Liberal-Labour part of it ) had at last seen the light . |
| 17 | This unique combination led to the rediscovery of the VistaVision process , or at least the old cameras used to achieve it , in the 1970s and '80s as a valuable tool for the SFX cameraman . |
| 18 | A chapter on homebuilt organisations around the world is instructive , not least to learn that whilst amateur-built aircraft have had official blessing ( or at least the blind eye treatment ) in many Eastern Bloc countries for a decade or more , getting approval to fly a homebuilt in Italy and Germany has been a hard-won struggle against obstinate bureaucracy . |
| 19 | We purchased our combined Crich/Midland Railway Centre ticket and began our trip into nostalgia , or at least the older members did ! |
| 20 | Like the Zande they live in the southern Sudan and have been studied by Evans-Pritchard , so that at least the personal equation can be held constant in comparisons between these two cultures . |
| 21 | On the positive side one could cite the wider political knowledge acquired by a territory invaded on all sides during 1917–21 , so that at least the many peasants , caught up in military life , like our travelling soldier , might acquire broader interests . |
| 22 | Then , C angustifolius opens , the petals sometimes jerking open like springs , and so much so that at least the outer set of three curl backwards like the petals of a martagon lily , leaving three widespread and brilliantly golden petals to bask in the light ( easy , then , to see why it is called the ‘ Cloth of Gold ’ crocus ) . |
| 23 | The full extent of the work carried out is not known , but it is thought that at least the outboard wing panels were replaced but certainly it was given four new Merlin 22 engines , H2S and the navigation aid Rebecca , as well as a brand new paint scheme . |
| 24 | But Courtney said he hoped that at least the factual part of the document would be made public . |
| 25 | More recent studies have shown that at least the higher primates display REM while sleeping , and therefore probably do dream . |
| 26 | We are pleased to see that at least the Labour Party now are deciding that they can at last work with the Government . |
| 27 | We showed that at least the British version of socialism could be reversed and that a nation could win back its prosperity and its pride . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ There ; ll be nobody left behind to grieve , ’ carolled Lehrer , looking on the bright side , Kahn , on the other hand , advocated massive investment in deep shelters so that at least the lucky half — or should it be the unlucky half ? — would be left behind to grieve , and to prove that war need not yet be quite abandoned as mankind 's most addictive sport . |
| 29 | In short , it appears that temperature/time relationships may not have been unfavourable for hydrocarbon generation and preservations in the Variscan foreland and at least the leading thrust sheet , warranting attention to the availability of source rocks , reservoir rocks , cap rocks , and structures . |
| 30 | The dorsal arm plates are fan shaped and at least the proximal ones are usually contiguous . |