Example sentences of "but [pron] do at " in BNC.
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| 1 | We ourselves are to some extent part of this problem , but we do at least live and work in the village full time . |
| 2 | But they do at least survive , and after a period of time will be able to regrow their tails . |
| 3 | The following excerpts may not clarify the best form of action should that occur , but they do at least point up some of the dilemmas . |
| 4 | The main concerns , such as that of the RCN about the failure to specifically mention paediatric for the UKCC to implement for act upon for some reason , but they do at the very least deserve to be addressed in public . |
| 5 | Everything seems to have gone wrong for poor old Gooch since his marriage broke up , culminating in that bizarre dismissal on Monday , but he does at least have one big advantage over the other members of the trio . |
| 6 | He did n't take a positivistic line and argue that the sentence ‘ God exists ’ is literally meaningless , but he did at least think that it was , expressed a proposition which no reasonable person would accept . |
| 7 | There are of course endless problems for the analyst who wishes to use the concept of the collective consciousness but it does at least involve an attempt to locate the basis of meaning in a social context . |
| 8 | But it does at least help in seeing why debates among Realists , Pluralists , and Structuralists in International Relations are so hard to umpire . |
| 9 | But it does at least prompt the question whether the suppression in them , not now of individuality but of individual interest in the sense of ownership , is only likely to be volunteered where the amount of that interest is seen by the prospective volunteer as marginal to his other interests , concerns and obligations . |
| 10 | To a certain extent the pamphlet states the obvious , but it does at least focus thinking in a formal manner to the issue of 1992 . |
| 11 | It would hardly have been possible for it to support beauty and extravagance and pleasure at the expense of mere survival , but it did at least hint that such a view could be held , and its mere admission of this possibility was to Clara profoundly satisfying . |
| 12 | But it did at the time appear rather a , the last thing |