Example sentences of "not [art] [det] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | STAMINA is not the least of the qualities demanded of the professional cricketer . |
| 2 | Not the least of the problems which Cnut faced as king of England was an important and complex relationship with the English church . |
| 3 | ‘ It is not the least of the tributes to President Clinton that he won the election despite Europe 's most frequent losers giving him advice . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It is not the least of the tributes to President Clinton that he won the election despite Europe 's most frequent losers giving him advice ’ |
| 5 | Not the least of the advantages enjoyed by the peripheral regions was cheap coastal transport . |
| 6 | Not the least of the offences which led to Paul 's assassination in 1801 was his contemptuous treatment of courtiers . |
| 7 | The ability to help or to harm was not the least of the tools in the politician 's inventory , and it may indeed have been of greater value than some of the more troublesome varieties of patronage , where a favour for one could easily anger others who were disappointed . |
| 8 | It is clear from the surviving correspondence that a naval career had become attractive to the Scottish gentry by the middle of the eighteenth century , perhaps because expenses at sea were much lower than those incurred in an army officer 's mess , while not the least of the attractions of a naval career in time of war was the possibility of prize money . |
| 9 | Pliny 's standing as author of the Historia Naturalis was such that not a few of the beliefs which he set down without personal commitment have continued to influence popular superstitions for nearly two millennia . |
| 10 | Not until the shock of the Crimean invasion did Ivan abolish the oprichnina , and intermittent terror continued for the rest of his reign , swallowing up not a few of the opochniks themselves . |