Example sentences of "least for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is an emerging argument here , if not for chastity , then at least for a prudent continence and a cool response to such favours , sexual or other , as the world may choose to offer . |
| 2 | It seems clear that , with careful safeguards , we need some legal machinery , similar to the provision of Place of Safety Orders for children , by which an old person could be received into residential care for their own protection , at least for a limited period of time , which would afford a breathing space for all concerned and enable a proper assessment to be made of the situation — including the wishes of the old person once they were out of the violent or neglectful environment . |
| 3 | It seems there must have been , at least for a critical short time , a feeling in the company that there should be a positive effort to create a modernised canal route from London to Langley Mill . |
| 4 | The United States wished to secure a transitional period in which limited American military and economic aid would be extended to south Korea in the hope that the communists would be kept at bay , at least for a decent interval . |
| 5 | Even Edwards , according to Wood , still presents management ‘ as omniscient , conspiratorial and able , at least for a certain period of time , to get its own way — that is , to solve successfully its problem of control ’ ( Wood 1982 , 16 ) . |
| 6 | In the final analysis , it may be that national states and their control agencies are relatively autonomous of a particular social class , and that in that sense could , under the right circumstances , become an instrument , at least for a specific and limited objective , of any particular class or alliance of classes or pressure groups . |
| 7 | Thus , Chartism was the eldest surviving child of Owenism ; and the six points of the People 's Charter brought into sharper focus , and as a realisable political objective within the given constitutional framework , the expectations of most of those who had earlier looked , if not for the re-creation of man on Owen 's visionary model , at least for a rapid and general application of co-operative practice as the means to a better life : who had , in short , looked for the reconstruction of the state as an industrial democracy . |
| 8 | Apart from the obvious enjoyment of this extended honeymoon stage , it does mean that the actual hard work of the relationship can be delayed , for nothing the young lovers do could ever spoil the bliss — at least for a short while ! |
| 9 | Unexpected demands on your money can cause havoc with even the most carefully planned budgets — at least for a short while . |
| 10 | If I ca n't manage it in a quiet room , or a temporary study , I impose it on everyone at least for a short time . |
| 11 | Things remained thus for nearly 80 years , and although it became generally recognised that the genus needed to be split-up into several smaller ones , the amount of work required was such as to make the task an almost-impossible proposition , at least for a single revision . |
| 12 | If so , it suggests that liberal policies will be implemented in Peru at least for a few months this year , whatever the general public thinks . |
| 13 | There is no reason why you should not have a weekly reward for remaining the same weight , at least for a few months after you have attained your ideal shape . |
| 14 | For most women , working and childbearing are alternatives , at least for a few years . |
| 15 | He reckoned it would take him where he wanted to go — at least for a few weeks . |
| 16 | If you do manage it then this brilliant collection of new maps will give you something to do tonight , at least for a few hours ! |
| 17 | If you do manage it then this brilliant collection of new maps will give you something to do tonight , at least for a few hours ! |
| 18 | And I think the most I 'll get out of it , at least for a few years , is local portrait photography . |
| 19 | The fury of the attack , at least for a few seconds , drew Waldegrave from his drunken stupor . |
| 20 | ‘ Just as you 're going to have to endure being separated from Jeff every day — at least for a few hours , while we do our English lessons . ’ |
| 21 | Even if sympathy was n't forthcoming , she had hoped at least for a little guidance , some clue as to where she had fallen short , or advice for the future . |
| 22 | He had a certain number of men-at-arms in the town , who could , probably , contain a revolt of the townsfolk , at least for a little while . |
| 23 | But at least for a little while Mama would be happy , and keeping Mama happy had become a way of life , almost . |
| 24 | She needs to be where he was — at least for a little while . ’ |
| 25 | This man would forget the purpose of his visit , at least for a brief spell , and the fact that he was on official business , and drink tea and eat a good meal in the prosecutor 's house , crack jokes and make amiable conversation , and sleep through the heat of the day . |
| 26 | If diffugere signals that winter 's troops are on the run — the snows have skeddadled — then the Grace may dare , at least for a brief time of truce , to resume her peaceful pastimes . |
| 27 | What I hope I have demonstrated is that some sort of positivist approach , in which one regards a theory as a model , is the only way to understand the universe , at least for a theoretical physicist . |
| 28 | By contrast , the consequences and so competences , and hence the adequacies or inadequacies , of natural selection , especially for long-run effects , were practically impossible to decide , at least for a finite intellect ; although the young Darwin himself could consistently suppose that God in choosing this means for adapting life to a changing earth had foreseen all its consequences . |
| 29 | To obtain an assurance from the vendors that they wish to pursue matters on an exclusive basis , at least for a specified time period |