Example sentences of "but at least [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one case in 1944 , Scott LJ stated that the ‘ British principle of personal freedom , that every man should be presumed innocent until he is proved guilty , applies also to the police function of arrest — in a very modified degree , it is true , but at least to the extent of requiring them to be observant , receptive and open-minded and to notice any relevant circumstance which points either way , either to innocence or to guilt ’ . |
| 2 | But at least for the rest of us Johanna 's lovely face will serve as a terrible reminder that our teenage daughters — however self-sufficient they might seem — are probably more at peril as they blossom into womanhood than they ever were as little girls . |
| 3 | After three years of groping in the dark they have emerged not quite into sparkling sunshine but at least into the hint of a new dawn . |
| 4 | But at least in the midst of my misery I can own what I have instead of feeling I am a pawn in another 's game with rules that I can not stick to or change . |
| 5 | In so far as the French Union was a federation which would group Indochina , Black Africa , and North Africa it was , as Raymond Aron pointed out , a grandiose objective but at least in the original proposals of the drafting committee which included a former governor general of Indochina , Alexandre Varenne , it was to be a union based on free consent . |
| 6 | Victorian science , perhaps Victorian intellectual life , had a certain robustness which could easily degenerate into quarrels , and it is a feature of the time that leading workers in the same field were often not on speaking terms : but at least in the BAAS good-tempered discussion was possible . |
| 7 | There are few indications in the documents as to when and why each of the settlements was affected , but at least in the sixteenth century we know that there was a shortage of land to provide food to feed everyone . |
| 8 | I 'm not saying necessarily in response to that resolution , but at least in the direction that we were hoping . |
| 9 | The prospects for creditors were not good , but at least by the end of the classical period they were mitigated by allowing settled land to pass , during the lifetime of an indebted trustee or beneficiary , into the ‘ beneficial possession ’ of a bonorum emptor . |