Example sentences of "it [verb] at [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To judge by Vincent 's subsequent letter of 15 October , it did at least bring them back into contact . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | There are of course endless problems for the analyst who wishes to use the concept of the collective consciousness but it does at least involve an attempt to locate the basis of meaning in a social context . |
| 7 | Though this means Romeo 's assumption that the Friar knows nought of love seem misplaced , it does at least make his rash engagement with the lovers more comprehensible . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | If quantification is risky , it does at least seem that the two-class , middle/ working conception is quite deeply rooted in popular ideology . |
| 10 | To a certain extent the pamphlet states the obvious , but it does at least focus thinking in a formal manner to the issue of 1992 . |
| 11 | But it does at least help in seeing why debates among Realists , Pluralists , and Structuralists in International Relations are so hard to umpire . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Whatever the limitations of the psychoanalytic approach to dream analysis , it does at least attempt to take this into account , and the procedure of showing films , however vivid and disturbing , and then observing spontaneous dream reports , is intrinsically limited by the construction that the individual role puts on the film and the experiment itself . |