Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb mod] [prep] least [be] " in BNC.
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1 | If I were playing an indisputably virtuous character , then cliché dictates that I would at least be spared death , imprisonment or degradation . |
2 | It therefore seemed better that the JACs and SCCs co-operate in order that they would at least be in a position to provide after-care supervision . |
3 | Those inmates classed as illiterate were obliged to take a compulsory form of basic education , with the aim that they would at least be able to read and write by the time they were released . |
4 | Their football was a credit to Hand , and Cecere ensured that it would at least be rewarded by an extra 30 minutes when he collected Maskell 's pass and tucked the ball behind Steve Sutton . |
5 | And it might seem that it would at least be a start to discover whether they are in fact common . |
6 | Madame Grimaud treated all this with brisk courtesy , remarking on one occasion that it could at least be said that Frederica was a good moral influence . |
7 | Though Jaq , in his role as a Trader , pretended to patronize a mistress , the reality was that during his thirty-five years of life he had only bedded one woman — almost on an experimental basis so that he should at least be acquainted with the spasm of sex . |