Example sentences of "but at [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This year , he had been offered the same opportunity , but at twice the price . |
| 2 | The first half had virtually passed Ferdinand by , but at least the £5 million-rated QPR striker got involved after the break although without much success . |
| 3 | But at least the radio-set enabled one to tune into a variety of propaganda : covert listening ( in the basement ) to the BBC or other radio stations of ‘ allied ’ or neutral powers , albeit punished when discovered , was a modest gesture of ‘ resistance ’ by individuals and families who only joined the ‘ Resistance ’ , if at all , in 1943 or 1944 . |
| 4 | We have already identified this as a problem but at least the opportunity for manipulation was constrained by the time it would take to receive the invoice . |
| 5 | They still argued , but at least the furniture stayed in one place . |
| 6 | SANDY LYLE conducted another exercise in self-immolation while Chip Beck discovered that his gunpowder was damp and useless but at least the American left a legacy after his first visit to the Suntory World Matchplay Championship . |
| 7 | True , there were no Sex Pistols here , not even a Housemartins if the truth be known , but at least the papers were beginning to take on board a youth culture . |
| 8 | On one occasion at Anfield , Dalglish had his cheekbone fractured in a clash with Moran — but at least the Rovers boss knows Moran is granite hard ! |
| 9 | Dr Tyrell stressed that the results do not mean that a similar vaccine can be made for HIV ‘ but at least the road now does not look like a dead end ’ . |
| 10 | Now my feeling is that in doing an evaluation one ought to try and develop each of these different viewpoints , then leave it to the people concerned that have to make the decisions to pick up each of these and to make the decisions , but at least the evaluation itself is not sort of ruling out of court any of the viewpoints that could be important in that situation , so any person who 's involved , even if they 're in a minority of one , at least feels that his views are there in the evaluation somewhere and they 're made legitimate by it . |
| 11 | But at least the computer route-finder seemed simple enough and he had no problems in setting it . |
| 12 | But at least the money saved over the years by cycling has enabled me to afford early retirement , and escape the commuter rat-race ! |
| 13 | But at least the lure of some extra greenbacks has n't made his recent records so disappointing . |
| 14 | There are still many anomalies and too many disabled persons are dependent on income support , but at least the attendance and mobility allowances go some way towards acknowledging the financial burdens of disability . |
| 15 | It is not quite the status of an accredited representative , but at least the door will not be shut in the face of any State which finds itself in the position that we and the Germans did in the early 1970s . |
| 16 | This meant that any extraction procedure was much cleaner and more satisfactory : the mould might provide some tiresome debris , but at least the medium did not add the viscous remains of stale meat soup . |
| 17 | Of course Parliament in Britain does not control monetary policy on a day-to-day basis , but at least the Chancellor can be called to account for his policies , and he and his government will be judged on their performance . |
| 18 | Many severely handicapped children do die at an early age through natural causes , but at least the parents can feel that they did everything they could for the child when it was alive . |
| 19 | Only a minority of the population would have the plasmids needed to combat such a stress but at least the species , if not a majority of individuals , would survive . |
| 20 | But at least the hole in its order book is no longer growing so fast . |
| 21 | But at least the Knitting Factory is blessed with a far better PA than is the normal preserve of such places — donated , apparently , by no less than Laurie Anderson — and the fragile webs of such head-in-the-oven epics as ‘ Power Failure ’ and the pulse-pummelling opener ‘ Bell ’ remain sufficiently well-spun to snag even the most neutral observer . |
| 22 | We are disappointed too , on your behalf , but at least the Hertford offer sounds very interesting , & we shall look forward to hearing more about it . |
| 23 | Field of Corn it may be , but at least the corn is not over-ripe . |
| 24 | Views non-existent but at least the walking easier . |
| 25 | But at least the stalemate had been been broken . |
| 26 | They were yellow with age and patched many times but at least the boy would be clean and warm . |
| 27 | The listing was something of a wet blanket — half of the shares were left with the underwriting institutions — but at least the company had got its listing away . |
| 28 | But at least the South Bank was freed . |
| 29 | Unless they 're out carrying out their inspections but at least the administrator 's there , she will help all she possibly can in the absence of the fire safety officer . |
| 30 | But at least the issue is now more lively and from 1974 the disabled have had a special Minister for the Disabled , at the Department of Social Security , to champion their cause and coordinate provision for their needs . |