Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the least " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we were to construct a ‘ ladder ’ of non-fatal offences , starting with the most serious and moving down to the least serious , the offence of attempted murder should be placed at the top . |
| 2 | Evolved in the tropics , most naked of all the apes , man is physiologically among the least likely of all warm-blooded creatures to flourish in polar regions . |
| 3 | We are no longer in the least likely to adopt such a Plato-like attitude towards the needs of industry or the economy . |
| 4 | With a sigh she slid down further into the blissfully warm bed , realising she was no longer in the least uneasy at the thought of Penry only feet away beyond the bedroom wall . |
| 5 | It wo n't interfere with the ‘ cause ’ in the least , not in the least . ’ ’ |
| 6 | Certainly the deliberate naïveté here is not in the least false , but has the limpid directness of some of the Chinese poems that Pound had marvellously transfigured in Cathay ( 1915 ) . |
| 7 | Your remarks on the Masefieldian lines go to the root of the matter — I should say the bad Masefieldian lines for in some points one would not in the least be ashamed to have learned from him … |
| 8 | That is to say he is not in the least drawn to the idea that Christ came in the flesh , and he finds the simplicity and literalism of what might be termed ‘ mere Christianity ’ frankly unacceptable . |
| 9 | One is contained in the sentence which is most often mocked in the Preface to ‘ Paradise Lost ’ : 'A schoolboy who reads a page of Milton by chance , for the first time , and then looks up and says ‘ By Gum ’ , not in the least knowing how the thing has worked , but only that new strength and width and brightness and zest have transformed his world , is nearer to the truth [ than the critics ] . ’ |
| 10 | The hall , settled in the lee of two gentle slopes on a narrow road leading westward out of the main street is not in the least unassuming ! |
| 11 | Lindsay Kemp : ‘ David Bowie struck me from the very beginning as being very versatile and very ‘ up-front ’ and not in the least bit naîve . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm not in the least sympathetic . |
| 13 | What was a Roman proconsul to do with a Christian who explained that he paid his taxes not in the least because the emperor 's laws and edicts required that , but because it was the command of the Lord ? |
| 14 | Rather does Karajan seem to remind them at every point of what they had agreed on in countless hours of common endeavour ; and his movements — chiefly of the baton-less left hand — are functional , not in the least demonic . |
| 15 | For all that Jan remembers the off screen Kylie as vulnerable and not in the least spoiled by her success . |
| 16 | ‘ He is not in the least like any of Henrietta 's children , but when I see him laugh and run he makes me think of them , being nearer the little one 's age than my Penini . |
| 17 | Understandably , Mr Anderson is slightly put out , but he assures me he is not in the least surprised . |
| 18 | He feels not in the least jaded by his winter , refreshed more . |
| 19 | It does not in the least correspond to any difference in the type of population … |
| 20 | Indeed , it is amazing that Sir Leon Brittan should still refer to these ‘ costs ’ long after Pöhl has said quite clearly that they are irrelevant : ‘ the repeated reference to alleged huge savings in transaction costs for the currencies of a single currency area are not in the least convincing ’ . |
| 21 | The public may be assured that he has been very frequently engaged in what is gently termed gallantry and intrigue ; but yet these ( give me leave to call them capital crimes ) are not in the least considered in him as deserving of censure . |
| 22 | ‘ Not in the least , Dad , ’ Wee Charlie replied , teasing him . |
| 23 | I 'm not in the least hungry . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Not in the least . |
| 25 | ‘ Not in the least now that I 've had a chance to study you him . |
| 26 | ‘ As long as I do n't have to see it , not in the least , ’ George said dryly . |
| 27 | I must repeat , I have no political motives , I 'm not in the least interested in the dismal machinations of politicians . |
| 28 | In print she boasts that she is not in the least attracted by drugs , even scared to touch ‘ ordinary cheerful liquor ’ . |
| 29 | His dealer , Zborowski , found to his chagrin that the rich pleasure-seekers in the south of France were not in the least interested in buying modern paintings . |
| 30 | Napoleon III , who had a horror of offending anyone socially , said nothing and both he and Eugénie behaved graciously and warmly during the dinner , as though not in the least put out . |