Example sentences of "if [adv] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The heaving fluid was not cold , as it had looked , but slightly warm , as if somewhere at the centre there might be a heart , and veins , and lungs to breathe with … |
| 2 | Regional performance is influenced , if only at the margins , by regional policy . |
| 3 | The Urban Programme has been one policy instrument through which the government has been able , if only at the margins , to influence the position of black people in the major conurbations . |
| 4 | A cynical nihilist , Andrei expected a sticky end ( if only at the hands of his master and mistress ) and wanted to live well before it came . |
| 5 | Of course , even the most empirical study is informed by a problematic — if only at the level of choice of what is significant , and this study is a good deal less innocent than that , but the story will be told first . |
| 6 | The movement of thought happens not directly through any outside intervention , but through the sub-culture 's inner compulsion to reflect on itself , if only at the level of current findings , theories and views . |
| 7 | The required duetting gelled pleasingly , if perhaps at the expense of individuality , although two items — a gutsy blues improvisation and that old chestnut Sixteen Tons — still brought out some steel . |
| 8 | But sportsmen must retire ; their bones insist upon it , and most try to do so if not at the height of their powers — that is too much to ask , no matter how determined the vows of youth — at any rate a day before they are asked to go rather than a day after . |
| 9 | Accordingly , there was a sense in which humanity remained close to the center , if not at the center itself . |
| 10 | He 'd met Sean Penn maybe 20 times , and they went to the same clubs on Melrose and Sunset , even if not at the same time or on the same night . |
| 11 | These authorities seem to me to leave the developing law , if not at the crossroads , at least at the junction of two diverging roads . |
| 12 | Isolated in a foreign country , and longing for all that had once been familiar , if not at the time congenial , to him , it was easy for Lear to expect of Gould what he could never give . |
| 13 | The class gets used to performing at a particular speed and also the movement becomes greatly disturbed if not at the right tempo . |
| 14 | And then I was late , when I got round there I thought well she 'll at least be waiting at the top of the drive , if not at the top of the road . |