Example sentences of "[prep] least [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are of course endless problems for the analyst who wishes to use the concept of the collective consciousness but it does at least involve an attempt to locate the basis of meaning in a social context . |
| 2 | Such a convergence would at least involve the surrounding software . |
| 3 | Those who remained can only hope that Mr Serrano , while snuffing out democracy , will at least control the soldiers . |
| 4 | There would still be the unnecessary complexity of m and w ; such diverse forms as roman , italic , capital and lower-case letters ; the lack of relationship between shapes of letters representing similar sounds ( v , f ) alongside similarities in shape for dissimilar sounds ( e , f ) ; the haphazard order of letters in the alphabet ( one might at least expect the vowels to be grouped together at the beginning or end ) ; and the need to backtrack to dot i's and cross t's . |
| 5 | " Well , you can at least expect to be in the Owsla one day , " answered Fiver . |
| 6 | As the Government , with their policies of dividing society , have been responsible for the breakdown in law and order , can not we at least expect bobbies back on the beat to protect us ? |
| 7 | ‘ If you must smoke you could at least go in the living room while I 'm cooking , ’ said Rodney . |
| 8 | Ron Todd ‘ If we are going to have a comedian as leader let's at least go for Dennis Skinner or Ben Elton . ’ |
| 9 | The Marine Mammals Protection Act does at least go some way in limiting the dolphin kills , but since its introduction the tuna fishing fleet has become dominated by non-US vessels . |
| 10 | Improvements in the overall forestry infrastructure , involving inventory acquisition through to logging , would at least go some way towards achieving better resource use . |
| 11 | In the chapters which follow , I will attempt to offer a more satisfying and , hopefully , iconoclastic alternative ; satisfying because it will place the explanatory emphasis on definite social processes which perpetuate the invidious position of blacks both in and out of sport ; and iconoclastic because it will at least go some way towards smashing the outdated image of the black man as possessing natural physical abilities that are determined , in the last instance , by his race . |
| 12 | The people in wheelchairs , it 's fair enough that they ca n't get their own dinner , but they should at least go to the back of the queue like we have to , but they push straight to the front . |
| 13 | I was still off the chain so could at least go to the little bathroom and fill the others ' water-bottles and empty their pee-bottles . |
| 14 | But she could at least go over and say hello . |
| 15 | ‘ Because it would be an awful waste of a packed suitcase if we did n't at least go somewhere . ’ |
| 16 | And it is through my understanding of drawing , control of the pencil , and study of design , that I can at least set out my figures well . |
| 17 | If we are prepared to participate in a European bank for reconstruction and development to help countries in eastern Europe which are facing the same problems as Britain 's defence industry workers , could we not at least set up a defence diversification agency to help the tens of thousands of workers in the north-west and throughout the United Kingdom who will be thrown on to the scrap heap ? |
| 18 | We attended between us five workshops and found all of them lacking in a clear overall framework/direction which would at least set an agenda for future constructive discussion ( let alone action ) . |
| 19 | I had the support of Anne Winterton , so we could at least talk together and walk through the lobbies together to give each other support . |
| 20 | ‘ There is an indication that under Magnus Magnusson , people will at least talk ’ , he said . |
| 21 | If capitalist development does not lead automatically to the formation of a united opposition class determined to ‘ expropriate the expropriators ’ , does it not at least lay the ‘ economic ’ foundations for socialism , constructing a system of socialised production in relation to which capitalist property becomes increasingly inappropriate ? |
| 22 | After some unhelpful discussion , which did at least confirm that the main concern of the United Kingdom delegation was that of discovery , that was dealt with in Article 23 , Article 1 retaining some residual signs of the drafting history . |
| 23 | Although we can not properly analyse the fortunes of the interactive video industry here , we can at least summarise . |
| 24 | As the future shape of local government and the issue of water privatisation threaten to bring big political problems for Lang in the months ahead , he can at least breath a sigh of relief that the long-running saga of the poll tax is about to draw to a close . |
| 25 | If he could not inform he could at least reassure . |
| 26 | They all promised to at least study my proposals . |
| 27 | The Department of Health publishes tar tables to encourage smokers who can not or will not give up smoking to switch to lower tar brands on the grounds that this may at least lower their risk of lung cancer . |
| 28 | Very often these things will at least ease , if not heal . ’ |
| 29 | It would hardly have been possible for it to support beauty and extravagance and pleasure at the expense of mere survival , but it did at least hint that such a view could be held , and its mere admission of this possibility was to Clara profoundly satisfying . |
| 30 | But this should at least hint at the complexity of a system of intricate , well-ordered ingenuity . |