Example sentences of "go [adv prt] [prep] least " in BNC.
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| 1 | My own view is that neither Mr Baker nor Mrs Rumbold knew very much about the complex debate that has been going on at least since Rousseau about progressive education , and that they did not realise that my Group would be strongly opposed to Mrs Thatcher 's views about grammar and rote-learning . |
| 2 | ‘ I will be going down at least once a fortnight , the children enjoy all the sporting facilities and social life . |
| 3 | Idealism has a long history in philosophy , going back at least to the Irish philosopher Berkeley , and it is sometimes attributed , as it was by Marx , to Plato . |
| 4 | Species superficially resembling Terebratula maxima may be found all over the world in rocks going back at least to the Jurassic period . |
| 5 | This new hawkish perspective builds upon a strand in US policy going back at least to Kennedy , which argues that the USA must possess a force structure that would enable a nuclear war to be fought and won ( Ikle , 1973 ) . |
| 6 | Chomsky and Sampson claim that this tree-like decomposition of a sentence into its parts is a feature common to all human language , and is indeed the basis upon which we determine the meaning of a sentence from the way it is built up out of its parts ( an insight going back at least to Frege ) . |
| 7 | But they represent a great slice of gardening history ( no plants , no gardens ) and provide us with a rich , exciting and often colourful tapestry of adventure and discovery going back at least several hundred years . |
| 8 | Fortunately , most local record offices contain an abundance of sources for local history , going back at least two hundred years . |
| 9 | The scope for disagreement between plaintiffs and defendants has been narrowed by the move by district registries to publish hourly rates going back at least five years . |
| 10 | Certainly , but then De Gaulle was only the most recent of a line of French national leaders , going back at least as far as Joan of Arc , who have seen in the English , through most of the centuries , their main enemy , whereas of course we did n't come across Germany internationally at all until within the last ninety years . |
| 11 | This goes back at least as far as Aristotle . |
| 12 | The tradition , which goes back at least 2,500 years , continued until the early part of this century . |
| 13 | The age of organ-building goes back at least to Louis the Pious , for whom a Venetian priest called George built an organ at Aachen in 826 , and it is reflected in the lively illustrations of organs in the Utrecht Psalter , a Reims manuscript of about 830 . |
| 14 | As an electoral doctrine , this latter belief goes back at least to Alcibiades , who cut off his dogs ' tails so that he should be talked about ; from which little good came either to him or to Athens . |
| 15 | Their history goes back at least to the Ordovician , although some of the Palaeozoic asteroids are distantly related , if at all , to the living species . |
| 16 | Evidence of ritual burial goes back at least to Neanderthal man and possibly even earlier . |
| 17 | Plain food and good beer are to be had in Berlin 's oldest tavern , Zur Letzten Instanz ( 2125528 e ) , in the Waisenstrasse , which goes back at least to 1621 . |
| 18 | This account , though it applies much more widely , is essentially the same as an explanation of these social phenomena which goes back at least to Hume , who accounted for ‘ the artificial virtues of chastity and modesty in women ’ by referring to the naturally greater disposition of males to protect children that they believe to be their own . |
| 19 | The idea that criminality is the outcome of organic disorder or disease goes back at least as far as Lombroso , who associated crime with epilepsy . |
| 20 | This ‘ ontological imperialism ’ , Levinas argues , goes back at least to Socrates but can be found as recently as Heidegger . |
| 21 | Written knowledge of contraception and abortion , some of it potentially effective like coitus interruptus and vaginal sponges and spermicides , goes back at least two millennia ( Himes 1936 , McLaren 1990 ) . |
| 22 | The sheer number of monks became an obsession that bound together reforming bureaucrats and their liberal heirs , showing how both drew on the criticism of the ‘ sterile ’ classes , which goes back at least to the sixteenth century . |
| 23 | Evidence of Dalmatians ( whom the Italians called Schiavone or Slavs ) working in Italy goes back at least to the time of Radovan . |
| 24 | This tradition goes back at least to Herder and Lessing in the eighteenth century ; and it continues beyond Nietzsche to Johannes Volkelt and Bertolt Brecht in our own time . |
| 25 | An alternative usage , which goes back at least to the seventeenth century , made " family " a widely dispersed group of relatives , loosely linked by ties of " blood " and affinity , but not necessarily associated with any one household . |
| 26 | It was coined in 1969 by the American scientist John Wheeler as a graphic description of an idea that goes back at least two hundred years , to a time when there were two theories about light : one , which Newton favored , was that it was composed of particles ; the other was that it was made of waves . |
| 27 | The party was founded in June 1989 but Green activity in Slovenia goes back at least 20 years , centring on issue-oriented protests , notably over the nuclear plant at Krsko . |
| 28 | The concept goes back at least as far as 1877 when Jessel MR stated in Winn v Bull [ 1877 ] 7 Ch 29 that " where you have a proposal or agreement made in writing expressed to be subject to a formal contract being prepared , it means what it says ; it is subject to and is dependent upon a formal contract being prepared . " |
| 29 | er it goes back at least 300 years er possibly longer than that , it may be that when they finish the tar they had services up there to celebrate it or to remember one of the benefactors . |
| 30 | The wind got up even more for the back nine , but we looked as though we might go in at least sharing the lead . |