Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] least [vb -s] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Cunningham at least has the benefit of knowing New Zealand conditions . |
| 2 | Working in the bakery at least guarantees the women will take home a piece of bread each day . |
| 3 | But the belief that hypnosis at least enhances the recall of memories still lives on , encouraged by rare cases of amnesia which are caused by emotional trauma , rather than brain damage . |
| 4 | On the contrary they assist the plaintiff to the extent that his case accords with legislative policy and the Act at least recognises the possibility that he has a valid claim at common law — the fact that the Law Commission , whose Report on Injuries to Unborn Children ( 1974 ) ( Cmnd. 5709 ) led to the Act of 1976 , considered this a probability is perhaps not a matter which the plaintiff can properly pray in aid . |
| 5 | Sontag 's article at least has the virtue of tentativeness ; it is in the form of notes ( dedicated to Oscar Wilde ) , and acknowledges the difficulty of defining a sensibility , especially one as ‘ fugitive ’ as this ( ‘ Notes on Camp ’ , 277 ) . |
| 6 | The assumption may be historically sound : the idea of detriment at least recalls the early association of assumpsit and case . |
| 7 | In the simplest of games , one person at least knows the pain of doubt , or defeat . |
| 8 | Yet , De Lauretis argues , this new figural cinema at least poses the question of ‘ how to reconstruct and organize vision from the impossible place of female desire ’ . |
| 9 | The alternative voting system at least possesses the virtue of requiring that if such policies are to be persisted in , the doctrine in which they are grounded must have been at least minimally acceptable to , if not the first choice of , a majority of voters . |