Example sentences of "[prep] least [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had not had much time or energy to expend on such matters , and was quite happy to cover familiar , or at least already prepared , ground . |
| 2 | And I had n't thought of the blessed man in the last two hours — at least barely thought . |
| 3 | While there are instances of seemingly unnecessarily high pricing , some at least probably arise more from inefficiencies than from exploitation — which of course does not bode well for the long-term survival of those establishments . |
| 4 | The people who make up this brain drain are the backbone of the transnational capitalist class , the class whose political role is to persuade co-nationals that their interests are identical with , or at least best served by , those of the TNCs . |
| 5 | My hon. Friend the Minister of State represents an outer London borough and he would be surprised if I did not at least briefly mention the position in the London borough of Barnet . |
| 6 | It leaves judges free to change rules when they think changing them would at least marginally outweigh whatever mischief would be caused by the change . |
| 7 | By the end of this stage , social productivity and economic efficiency would have increased at least two-fold compared to the present day . |
| 8 | Traditionally the first and principal line of attack is that existing domestic law is better or , if not better , is at least well known and understood . |
| 9 | All research that is not at least indirectly related to this purpose is trivial . |
| 10 | Of fascination to some , most would prefer to have it taken away or at least effectively cordoned off so that its presence could largely be ignored . |
| 11 | Reassured that our political leaders are both aware of the problem 's growing dimensions and receptive to our rising anxieties , we wait in optimistic but realistic anticipation for crime to be at least effectively reduced . |
| 12 | Chairman , I do n't really want to say very much er by way of rounding up I think that we 've had a very significant er debate here today , there 's been a lot of discussion on very important issues , erm I think throughout that we we 've managed to get er a certain number of of issues really er in my view at least anyway sorted out . |
| 13 | These formal laws are complex and in the UK at least rarely resorted to . |
| 14 | At least neither suffered the indignities that befell Spanish rookie , Luis Lopez Quesada . |
| 15 | Will you at least please make an effort ? ’ |
| 16 | If he is beyond recall , then she at least surely deserves a little compassion . |
| 17 | In producing these plans , two other objectives were also at least partly achieved . |
| 18 | The pleasurable element of surprise is at least partly lost on a second reading . |
| 19 | A flight of external stairs allowed him easy access to the bookroom , and there he must often have been found when the ‘ noise of Women & children ’ , which made study impossible , had driven him once again from Lime Street : it is probable that most of the poems associated with the cottage were at least partly written in the bookroom . |
| 20 | He concludes : ‘ So although at first it is also natural for civilized people to condemn out of hand what I had just witnessed as disgraceful heathen bestiality , they , too , if they were honest might come to feel it was at least partly redeemed by the genuine religious conviction on which it is based . ’ |
| 21 | The living room is the only one that does not at least partly arrange itself , which makes it , of course , the most taxing on the imagination . |
| 22 | But I can not help wondering whether the dark mood of the ballet was at least partly influenced by Britten 's opera Peter Grimes , which also included episodes of fishermen mending their nets . |
| 23 | This is at least partly influenced by the fact that , if the exchange closes , wholesale customers can often find the means to carry on trading amongst themselves . |
| 24 | ‘ Now we get recruits who are at least partly trained , ’ Coltman says . |
| 25 | By concentrating on the international dimension of the UK 's crossroads we are saying that the structural changes are conditioned by the UK 's international position — — however we conceive it — and are at least partly determined by structural changes in the international economy . |
| 26 | The placement of tonic stress is still to some extent an unsolved mystery ; it is clear , though , that it is at least partly determined by the larger context ( linguistic and non-linguistic ) in which the tone-unit occurs . |
| 27 | All the jobs above require the cylinder to be at least partly drained . |
| 28 | The absence of cases in west Thurso above age 4 among children born locally may at least partly reflect the immunity conferred by their recent exposure at earlier ages . |
| 29 | Although the reason for this is unclear , it may at least partly reflect the voltage sensitivity of the K + channels ( see Fig 3 ) . |
| 30 | Although the definitive Regulations have still to be introduced , the Government 's long awaited Statement — issued in December — concerning the training requirements of the Food Safety Act 1990 , has at least partly cleared the air . |