Example sentences of "the least " in BNC.
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| 1 | As to genius , ‘ Reynolds ’ opinion was that Genius may be taught & that all Pretense to Inspiration is a Lie & a Deceit , to say the least of it . |
| 2 | Far example , madam , my life ; my life , madam is a perpetual stream of pleasure , that glides through such a variety of entertainments , I believe the wisest of our ancestors never had the least conception of any of 'em . |
| 3 | The Italian influence on British cooking has resulted in a shift away from traditional classical sauces and stocks towards an emphasis on ‘ something exquisitely fresh , with the least amount of modification in the process of preparation ’ , to quote from an old Tuscan cookery book . |
| 4 | The first Americans she observed were on the boat and she wrote , ‘ they laughed at the poor immigrants lying on the deck in their wretched clothes … without the least sign of sympathy . ’ |
| 5 | Interest and exchange rates are the least of Ferranti 's problems . |
| 6 | Not the least power of a totalitarian state is the power to bore the people out of their right minds . |
| 7 | Yet Clark had known all along of the military preparations ‘ Musketeer I ’ and ‘ Musketeer II ’ and had been dismayed when Dulles seemed to have aborted them with his Suez Canal Users Club ; and after the Anglo-French meeting in London in September he had put out ‘ a dull communiqué , and no one has the least idea of what big things were abroad' . |
| 8 | Oddly she never felt the least guilt in accepting money from Rachel to help her bring up Maggie . |
| 9 | But what Brown had overlooked was the First Rule of the Conventional Car Maker : sell as many of the same cars as you can in order to make the most money for the least expenditure . |
| 10 | The ‘ explanation ’ raises many problems , not the least being why the symptoms should depend upon whether the temperature rhythm is delayed or advanced with respect to the sleep/wake rhythm . |
| 11 | The non-smokers dislike the perpetual and pungent cloud , but have grown to accept it without serious complaint — it 's the least of their worries . |
| 12 | Not the least of their tasks was the disposal of the toys . |
| 13 | Not the least of these was that the |
| 14 | He took it up in a Pauline spirit , as a reparation ; now the least of Christians ( by special grace ) but once an infidel , and even if he had not persecuted the faithful , one who scorned the Faith , he would do what he could to convert men or stop them from straying away . |
| 15 | Though it would n't make the least bit of difference to her what way he looked , she would not let the occasion pass without punishing him sharply for still being alive . |
| 16 | A test ban is the least of the proliferators ' worries . |
| 17 | The Gulf is the least of the industry 's worries . |
| 18 | Greed is the least of the problems , though the administration was not amused when Israel pushed its luck by suggesting that to help with its Gulf expenses — missile damage , the cost of the prolonged military alert , loss of tourism and so on — America might like to double the $3 billion it already gives Israel each year . |
| 19 | With the pound locked into the European Monetary System , the most and the least the government can do is ensure that nominal demand does not collapse . |
| 20 | Thomas discussed the relationship between love and poetry much later in Feminine Influence on the Poet : ‘ The love-poem is not for the beloved , for it is not worthy , as it is the least thing that is given to her , and none knows this better than she unless it be the lover … . |
| 21 | For these mistakes have led to the belief that extension , the subject-matter of geometry , is infinitely divisible , a belief ‘ thought to have so inseparable and essential a connection with the principles and demonstrations in geometry , that mathematicians never … make the least question of it ’ . |
| 22 | The main problem of the present-day settlor is so to draft the limitations of the settlement as to attract the least amount of income tax and inheritance tax . |
| 23 | With a deficit of 552 and thirteen and a quarter hours left , obviously only the weather was going to save England , so there was not the least justification for the barrage of short balls that Holding and Roberts hurled at Edrich and Close . |
| 24 | The Adjutant was able to sound thankful where Charles had given the least impression of unwillingness . |
| 25 | According to the law of attempts , the least that a defendant must be proved to have done is something ‘ more than merely preparatory ’ to sexual intercourse , with intent to have unlawful sexual intercourse without the woman 's consent . |
| 26 | She exposed the soles of her feet at the mouth of the oven … she drank gall and rubbed her eyes therewith … in her ardent desire for suffering she made herself a silver circlet in which she fixed three rows of sharp points in honour of the thirty-three years that the Son of God lived upon earth … she wore it underneath her veil to make it the more painful as these points being unequally long did not all pierce at the same time … so that with the least agitation these iron thorns tore her flesh in ninety-nine places … |
| 27 | To keep herself from sleep she suspended herself ingeniously upon a large cross which hung in her room … and should this fail she attached her hair [ the one lock she had not shaved off to the nail in the feet of her Christ so that the least relaxation would inflict terrible suffering on her … |
| 28 | Not the least of these is increased fuel consumption — the search for minimum NOx output means retarded injection timing , and that hurts efficiency . |
| 29 | It was the least he could do . |
| 30 | It was the least he could do . |