Example sentences of "not least the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some details of this tenure are reminiscent of a former age , not least the obligation to provide hospitality ( gite ) and domestic service to the king-duke when he visited Aquitaine . |
| 2 | They do so at their peril , which is the first major tenet of this exciting thriller , which resurrects some favourite old ploys not least the shower curtain , the body in a cupboard , and the inability to escape . |
| 3 | Sooner , rather than later , Europe will be forced to bring the standard of its financial reporting in line with the rest of the world , not least the US . |
| 4 | The problems of early diagnosis and assessment , the views of those with dementia and their carers and not least the spectre of stigmatisation will result in many people remaining in the community and needing flexible , responsive and residential services . |
| 5 | In our various parties , organizations and institutions therefore we urgently need to recognize that most of our programmes , not least the programmes of our conferences and synods if I may leave you together in sin brothers and sisters |
| 6 | No doubt Sergeant Blatchford and Lieutenant-General Baden-Powell would have found much to argue about — not least the question of full-time socialist agitators — but here was agreement of sorts , although as we have seen Baden-Powell was more inclined to smuggle in militarism behind fresh air philosophies , nature study and the smoke of jolly camp fires . |
| 7 | The most recent are the football hooligans , who for many people , and not least the feature writers of our Sunday newspapers , have come to represent all that is most senseless and destructive in our society . |
| 8 | Under LFM key areas of decision-making remained under the ultimate direction of the LEA not least the curriculum , staffing establishments and conditions of service and pay discretions . |
| 9 | We need have no reservation that such memories , not least the sounds , entered deeply into the young boy 's consciousness , as his mother gave vent to her distress in English and her native Yiddish , as well as symbolically rending her clothes and chanting the dirges . |
| 10 | In return for this concession the English government obtained a number of crucial episcopal appointments , not least the translation of Sudbury to Canterbury ; moreover , the good offices of the pope were assured in the current peace negotiations ; finally , some of the money would find its way back to the English crown for the ransom of the pope 's brother , Roger Beaufort , who was then an English prisoner of war . |
| 11 | I 've always had a feeling that United 's goal crisis was not the fault of Mark Hughes or Brian McClair but of problems around them — not least the inability of the midfield to score . |
| 12 | There is nothing here — not least the welcome that the rest of our EC partners would express over Britain signing up — that creates insuperable difficulties . |
| 13 | The reason for entitling the chapter 's second main section ‘ Factors inhibiting professional development ’ is that , despite a number of favourable features being observed during the writer 's research , not least the support given to arts education activities by local authority non-arts administrators , it is the difficulty which arts educators face in mounting a coherent and sustained programme of staff development which is the predominant theme . |
| 14 | It was an interesting move pregnant with unforeseen circumstances , not least the concern and misunderstanding to which it gave rise locally . |
| 15 | Sir : Contentious points are raised in your leading article , ‘ High time for monetary union ’ ( 11 October ) , not least the title , which itself implies an ideological support for ‘ European union ’ in favour of an analytical study of the forces at work in Europe . |
| 16 | What remains to be defined is the relative importance of these activities at individual sites , not least the degree of dependence upon crafts and the economic relationship between town and country . |
| 17 | It was the children , Sue reveals , not least the Princess , who handed out harshness and humiliation … |
| 18 | The arrival of canals was of great value to many industries , not least the textile area of west Yorkshire . |
| 19 | The British Chambers of Commerce , on the other hand , welcomed the various adjustments to simplify and enhance tax for small businesses , not least the rationalisation of VAT . |
| 20 | Plenty of others remain , not least the shortage of engineers — not so much of graduates as of technicians . |
| 21 | Political commentators noted , however , that there remained serious obstacles to co-operation between the two parties on a range of issues , not least the procedure for choosing a joint presidential candidate . |
| 22 | But that is true of all creatures great and small , not least the worm . |
| 23 | Not least the girls in the office |
| 24 | There are various reasons for this change — financial economy , production convenience , the emergence of some imaginative designers , and not least the response to user needs . |
| 25 | There were one or two shock inclusions , not least the redundancy of Chris Brunker of Christies . |
| 26 | The careers of the bourgeois world were indeed open to talent , but the family with a modest amount of education , property and social connections among others of the middle rank undoubtedly started with a relatively enormous advantage ; not least the capacity to intermarry with others of the same social status , in the same line of business or with resources which could be combined with their own . |
| 27 | I 'm more concerned about erm future possibilities , not least the possibility that the , if we fight the next European election under first past the post system then of course there will need to be a further set of boundary changes in the very near future arising from the parliamentary boundary commission proposals and I hope that again that the minister will take the change in in his remarks a little later , to assure the house that this was , because of the time constraints and there are reasons for that that I 'll come to , but because of the time constraints that this was in fact just a one off proposal because its sad that party political considerations that the minister has eluded to , the difficulties that Conservative party had over the Maastricht bill , caused our boundary procedures to be tampered with at all in the U K. At the same time as we 're seeing er a welcome expansion of democratic forms in the rest of the world in erm Eastern and central er Europe , in South Africa for instance we see the erosion of these forms in the United Kingdom . |
| 28 | During the 1980s data networks of various kinds were spreading to more and more United States companies and industries ; several factors encouraged this , not least the deregulation of telecommunications and the emergence of new software packages tailored to particular industries ' networking needs . |
| 29 | Elgar 's famous Serenade completes the programme , and surely everyone will be happy about that — not least the orchestra itself , who love it . |
| 30 | This turnabout is affecting the whole ski business in Britain , not least the magazines . |