Example sentences of "but [pron] have at " in BNC.

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1 But she 'd at least enough to pay her board .
2 But we had at least one vote in our favour when the application was considered .
3 In their villages of origin the women had been regarded as contributing less to the economic position of the family than the men , but they had at least been recognised as crucial to the economic life of the community .
4 The sociologists of knowledge … may well have come to erroneous conclusions ; but they have at least attempted in some measure , to solve the philosophical problem that results from the existence of competitive social-world [ theoretical ] systems .
5 They have not yet followed the example of Italy 's chief reformer , Mario Segni , who has left his party to form a new one , but they have at least threatened to do so .
6 I know such guarantees are n't really worth the plastiscrip they 're printed out on , but they have at least a token legal value if there 's any trouble .
7 But He had at least one advantage over Colbert .
8 He may not have returned to Paris in 1944 with all his answers to France 's problems fully formed , but he had at least decided what the problems were .
9 Gesner was the one who ought to be slapped , but he had at least done the decent thing in abandoning Suzi .
10 Ceauŝescu may not be the most benevolent of rulers but he has at least kept his country outside the Soviet Union .
11 It is unlikely that either side in this arrangement had much hope that it would last , but it had at least enabled the government of Louis-Philippe to avoid an embarrassing public debate , which a trial might well have become .
12 Her engagement had been a bitter mistake , but it had at least taught her a lesson in preserving her invulnerability , instead of charging into things with unbridled optimism .
13 But it had at about oh eighteen inch intervals , something like that ?
14 It is unusual to have an autumn statement in the middle of a debate on the Queen 's Speech , but it has at least given us an opportunity to test the veracity of the promises that have been made .
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