Example sentences of "least [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result , at least off the track and in business , he had about him only sycophants . |
| 2 | In the event , his twelve Tests proved a singularly unhappy period as he lost four and drew eight ; he insisted that the responsibility did not affect him but his form declined — partly at least through a back injury — and his performances varied from moderate to dismal . |
| 3 | The charges of genocide that followed were denied by Iraq but pressure accumulated for a UN investigation , not least through the criticism of Turkish premier Ozal , whose own country 's relations with its Kurdish minority have enjoyed a chequered history over the years . |
| 4 | This duality between solidity and beauty thus expressed a sharp division between the material and the ideal , the bodily and the spiritual , highly typical of the bourgeois world ; yet spirit and ideal in it depended on matter , and could be expressed only through matter , or at least through the money which could buy it . |
| 5 | Of recent years , not least through the coming into their own of women this century , the question has arisen for Christians as to how far the concretion is itself inspired . |
| 6 | Because of the flow of capital receipts we have been able to increase the cash spent on social housing , not least through the agency to which my hon. Friend referred , the Housing Corporation , whose budget is shortly to rise to £2 billion a year . |
| 7 | Fasciclin III is normally expressed at the NMJ at least through the end of embryogenesis . |
| 8 | Yet now it is so much harder to move assets they are re-asserting their traditional role , not least through the marketing of property audits , in helping businesses to manage them more effectively instead . |
| 9 | As for the valleys they are in ; well , woods , hillsides , sheep and tranquillity have their point , not least during an election . |
| 10 | Such a mode of subsistence demands that the population be relatively sparsely dispersed , at least during the daytime while foraging is going on . |
| 11 | For every act of violence quoted by Mr. Cleaver , one could cite an Arab attack , massacre or atrocity , not least during the Intifada which has seen well over 500 Palestinians murdered by his fellow Palestinians . |
| 12 | The bed was necessary , because Lewis intended to sleep in the College , at least during the week in term-time . |
| 13 | Her freehold and copyhold land , it is true , remained her own ; but the husband had the enjoyment of it at least during the continuance of the marriage . |
| 14 | Undoubtedly the BLR&DD , by its injection of substantial funding into the UK scene , has stimulated considerable activity and interest in particular areas of user education , at least during the term of funding of the projects . |
| 15 | In India , where continued hegemony was now the consideration paramount above all others in the minds of British politicians , a wholehearted attempt at such a policy , by one so well qualified to pursue it , must have seemed at least worth a try . |
| 16 | It is at least worth a footnote to any textbook on handling disputes that few employers have to contend with their management arm solemnly sitting down and condemning the negotiating strategy and then publicly relating their views to the press . |
| 17 | Middlesbrough v Leeds With Sheffield United off duty until tomorrow Leeds can go top , at least for a day , but have Sterland ( bruised ribs ) and Haddock ( calf ) taking tests this morning . |
| 18 | Two fifty for a telly , a hundred for a , a , a hundred at least for a microwave . |
| 19 | Many large organisations are structured in the main as bureaucracies , although other formal organisation structures may be designed , at least for a part of the organisation . |
| 20 | The first was the pressure for independence or at least for a measure of internal self-government in India . |
| 21 | But he was quick to perceive that there was little future in such arguments , at least for a Government Minister . |
| 22 | It will go forever — or at least for a century . |
| 23 | ‘ The problem is that Knighton wants to sit in the chairman 's seat , at least for a while , ’ one confidant said . |
| 24 | But fundamentalists are also really dangerous , at least for a while , because hypocrites think that everybody is talking double talk , like them , and awful misunderstandings occur . |
| 25 | One type can get away with near murder , at least for a while , and still shed some weight . |
| 26 | The great Italian poet Leopardi had this to say : ‘ Works of genius have this intrinsic property that even when they give a perfect likeness of the nullity of things , even when they clearly demonstrate and make us feel the inevitable unhappiness of life , even when they express the most terrible despair , nevertheless … they always serve as a consolation , rekindling enthusiasm , and though speaking of and portraying nothing but death , restore to it , at least for a while , the life that it had lost . ’ |
| 27 | One can only assume that , at least for a while , they were able to survive on fully aquatic prey , such as fishes . |
| 28 | The reductionist position is that , within a system spared down to minimal size , prisons can sometimes , at least for a while , be made reasonably decent places . |
| 29 | ‘ I miss you too , but you must stay near him , at least for a while longer . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I did n't like to suggest it , ’ he said , ‘ but as you have , I think it 's a good idea to part — at least for a while . |