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 . |