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 .
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