Example sentences of "[art] [det] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A test ban is the least of the proliferators ' worries . |
| 2 | The Gulf is the least of the industry 's worries . |
| 3 | Greed is the least of the problems , though the administration was not amused when Israel pushed its luck by suggesting that to help with its Gulf expenses — missile damage , the cost of the prolonged military alert , loss of tourism and so on — America might like to double the $3 billion it already gives Israel each year . |
| 4 | Not the least of the memorable impressions of the evening is Robert Stephens 's fascinating Falstaff , a guiltily grinning fellow who brings to bear those wonderfully lugubrious vowels of his , swigging sack , emitting little laughs and sly asides . |
| 5 | STAMINA is not the least of the qualities demanded of the professional cricketer . |
| 6 | Birth was the least of the requirements for co-option to this introverted community . |
| 7 | Germany was within his immediate control , and Burgundy was the least of the three kingdoms which he resolved to merge firmly together , but Italy was a hotbed of revolt , dissent and major political and economic opposition to his aims . |
| 8 | Not the least of the many surprises I got on returning home was to find that all that had changed . |
| 9 | Baltic nationalism , which had been the least of the Tsar 's political worries and barely existed in 1917 , was nurtured by setting up independent little states as part of the quarantine belt against the Bolshevist infection . |
| 10 | ‘ In many ways , Clinton 's victory was the least of the unknowns facing the market , ’ said Ian Amstad , economist at Bankers Trust in London . |
| 11 | DULLER THAN dishwater factionalised account of the Kennedy assassination as seen from the perspective of Texan club-owner/Mafia associate Jack Ruby , Danny Aiello — a reliable supporting actor — does n't have the presence to hold the lead role , but that 's the least of the movie 's problems with its mix of fantastic coincidence and dreary atmosphere . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | That , in many ways , was the least of the problems . |
| 15 | Not the least of the offences which led to Paul 's assassination in 1801 was his contemptuous treatment of courtiers . |
| 16 | We seem to exert every effort to make the least of the most . |
| 17 | Not the least of the advantages enjoyed by the peripheral regions was cheap coastal transport . |
| 18 | Simple requests for such increases were the least of the shipowners ' concerns , while on shipboard conditions there could be no cause for complaint because of the " army of government officials who were there to keep them up to the mark " . |
| 19 | Under the Merchant Shipping Act of 1894 , anyone found damaging a navigation aid or tying up to one can be fined up to £500 , but according to Mr Cooper a fine would be the least of the expense . |
| 20 | Not the least of the problems which Cnut faced as king of England was an important and complex relationship with the English church . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ 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 ’ |
| 23 | Well he 's the least of the problem because if he 's got something in the churchyard there 'd be something dated probably . |
| 24 | Now , one member of the joint traffic management sub-committee who has been closely associated with all of these three issues is county councillor Tony and I must say , Mr Mayor that I am surprised to say the least by the way in which councillor appears appears to have been treated by some members of the labour party in this city . |
| 25 | Lanzarote , the eastern-most of the Canary Islands , is best known for its weird volcanic scenery and laval surface which barely supports a scrubby vegetation . |
| 26 | IT HAS been a week of mixed fortunes for the some of the world 's more repressive regimes . |
| 27 | It is this programme of reinstatement that explains what , for some people , is the odd repetition of the date ‘ 1909 ’ on the stonework at the rims of the some of the locks . |
| 28 | Here 's a list of the some of the things women feel guilty about . |
| 29 | Well the the some of the soldiers and sailors used to walk from all the way home to or or . |
| 30 | Do you know any others erm tell you about erm you know some of the some of the times when you 've been affected by crime . |