Example sentences of "[prep] least [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Correct or not , this hypothesis does at least hint at the complexities which could have been involved when Æthelred 's counsellors sat down to decide whether to pay or fight , and offers one of a range of reasons why individual self-interest may have resulted in less fighting than might have been expected . |
| 32 | Paul moved in front of Dinah ; he could at least protect her . |
| 33 | If he could not haul the family out of their genteel poverty , he could at least protect his women , his wife and his daughters , from the knowledge that he and so many others shared , mute and unrecognised , in the offices of the law , in the architects ' and developers ' bureaux , in police and magistrates ' waiting rooms , in prison officers ' canteens , in teachers ' common rooms , camps . |
| 34 | Bob Burtenshaw , realising they must at least silence the ships lying inside the dry-dock , south of the caisson , took several men with him along the wall , firing their pistols down into a tanker undergoing a refit . |
| 35 | From this very brief outline of the main characteristics of women 's employment in Scotland and how they related to the Edinburgh context , we can at least form some kind of picture of the 14-year-old Scottish girl 's expectations about her working career during the last half of the nineteenth century . |
| 36 | An Honours " School " of English will at least start its candidates on a path which , if followed to the end , leads to such knowledge of English Literature as Bentley or Jebb possessed of Greek . |
| 37 | Pioneering scientific work is now opening up the immense diversity of sensory worlds experienced by other creatures : extraordinary worlds which we may never be able to enter , but which we can at least start to appreciate through our awareness of animal " supersenses " . |
| 38 | Therefore the French judicial system must at least review this erroneous judgement . |
| 39 | But it would at least offer a chance of a positive political development . |
| 40 | ‘ You could at least offer to pay . ’ |
| 41 | But the drug does at least offer some respite in the later stages of the disease . |
| 42 | Physical attacks on leading government figures might at least disorganize the regime enough to force it to accede to the appeals for political reform which were once again coming from more moderate sections of public opinion . |
| 43 | Anyone else would have had tact enough to at least dress it up a little , she thought wryly . |
| 44 | ‘ You could at least assure him of that , ’ she snapped . |
| 45 | And this is er the sort of thing that er you 'll hand over to the the medical practice to er at least remind them what you 're doing there . |
| 46 | It might at least remind the YFs and their like that tomorrow does n't necessarily belong to them . |
| 47 | It might at least improve their language ! ’ |
| 48 | Maybe the correct answer is not the right way to describe it , but natural selection should at least lead us to a set of physical laws that work fairly well . |
| 49 | Well , then , let me put it this way : neither you nor I is happy ; but I may at least continue to be only moderately unhappy in reasonable comfort , while you may abruptly cease to be anything at all except on Social Security if goat 's cheese and sheep 's yoghurt hit a rough patch . |
| 50 | For Jaq called to mind the fat , fussy majordomo and Lord Voronov-Vaux of the red vision — but not a bloodthirsty vision , and the great-eyed girl who had scampered from his bed , and all the survivors of the Genestealer uprising who had dolefully expected that their lives would at least continue after the disaster . |
| 51 | Perhaps I could at least stay until she wakes up and I can explain what 's happening . ’ |
| 52 | The telephone rang while I was busy explaining to Tony Crosland that I could not accept a further term of office at the Housing Corporation , since I had been appointed to the Mastership of University College , Oxford , but I had agreed to a request that I should at least stay for another year to see someone else in . |
| 53 | Not that I do n't like you , Simon , but you would think if the man goes to all this trouble to rescue me he could at least stay around afterwards . ’ |
| 54 | I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to and say what I wanted to when I painted as that seemed to be the only thing I could do that did n't concern anybody but myself — that was nobody 's business but my own . |
| 55 | By the time they arrive at Maidstone , there fore , most have settled into the routines imposed by a long sentence of imprisonment and most do at least feel that some progress through the system is being achieved . |
| 56 | Inside the system and moving , he could at least feel safe . |
| 57 | Having forsaken the millions he would have made had he remained at LWT , Birt will at least want the prestige and power of the DG-ship . |
| 58 | When Miss P said this to him Boy realised that he could n't actually imagine a man proposing something that he would n't want to do , or would n't at least want to try just once , but he understood what he was being told and he learnt that lesson well , thank God . |
| 59 | We can not expect to arrive at consensus easily — there are a lot of things which may not seem to fit at all — but we can at least want to find out what is in common before worrying about what appears to contradict . |
| 60 | A rigid leg has no alternative but to snap ; a bent leg , having give in it , can at least straighten upon the impact of an aggressor 's kick . |