Example sentences of "but [prep] least [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were sparse , little more than a wide and overgrown hedge , but at least no dragon would be able to fly through them . |
| 2 | He certainly held deep convictions as to the absolute wrongness of the Liberal policies that he opposed , but at least a part of his apparent hostility was assumed for the occasion , a hard line that might secure a better compromise in the end . |
| 3 | And each time we visited the mountains , we would find the Syrians not an inch nor even a metre but at least a mile nearer to Beirut . |
| 4 | But at least a dream of empire was not as impossible as it had been in 1558 . |
| 5 | But at least a quarter lived in some kind of poverty , even if the degree of their deprivation stopped short of actual destitution . |
| 6 | Perhaps not a great deal , but at least a glimmer ! |
| 7 | Four divisions of ten may not be the ideal solution for the future of Scottish football — it does n't , for example , address the problem of clubs meeting four times a season — but at least a reduction in the number of games from 44 to 36 will give everyone breathing space . |
| 8 | But at least a call could be justified , as advisable to inform the Countess of the situation vis-à-vis her husband . |
| 9 | You might think there was something wrong with you if you did not enjoy this form of dedicated slavery but at least a woman had someone to share it with : her husband — and that third party in almost every educated parental home , Dr Benjamin Spock . |
| 10 | But at least a lot of players have sampled international competition at their own level and that can only be good for the game . |
| 11 | In Liverpool , a dockers ' spokesman with the Transport and General Workers Union admitted : ‘ Drivers are n't happy handling some of these commodities , but at least a lorry-driver has more idea of what he is handling than a docker , who could have a consignment and just not know what it is . ’ |
| 12 | It would half kill her , but at least a remedy existed . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They still argued , but at least the furniture stayed in one place . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ! |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | But at least the computer route-finder seemed simple enough and he had no problems in setting it . |
| 23 | But at least the money saved over the years by cycling has enabled me to afford early retirement , and escape the commuter rat-race ! |
| 24 | But at least the lure of some extra greenbacks has n't made his recent records so disappointing . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |