Example sentences of "[conj] [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 . |
| 8 | The status of comedy is crucial to the debate , and we can at least be sure that Kingsley Amis would not object to having his practice compared with Waugh 's , or to being placed with him among the monologists of the Right . |
| 9 | Today , only the altar candlesticks had been forgotten ( it was Elaine Dodswell and Trish Pardoe 's week and they could at least be relied upon ) so Anna gathered them up and took them home to polish . |
| 10 | My own feeling is that we will probably lose the battle , but there will at least be measures in place to protect the animals . ’ |
| 11 | It must be pure speculation as to whether such a father advised his daughter to do so , but he would at least be well aware of the value of a skilled calling . |
| 12 | But he might at least be " useful " , as he had wanted , and part of that usefulness lay in the fact that , on one level at least , his poetry could have a public and national purpose — although , when the war had been won , he no longer cared to draw attention to those aspects of it . |
| 13 | She did not believe that she could bring Scathach back to life , but he could at least be with her in the fortress as she made her journey into the first forest , as she went in search of whatever it was that had ensnared Harry , made him a prisoner in Old Forbidden Place . |
| 14 | Such difficulties go with the territory for Roxburgh , though he will at least be assisted , unlike the build-up to Malta , by the cancellation of league fixtures before the crucial match in Lisbon on 28 April . |