Example sentences of "very least " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such an ascription is a cognisant act involving , at the very least , a conception of a one 's self , a conception of experience , and a conception of veridicality . |
| 2 | This is now so widely accepted that it seems less like a theory , or even a theoretical framework , than a piece of common sense ; and in one form or another it encompasses the views of the majority of Anglo-American philosophers and neuroscientists about the basis of consciousness or , at the very least , of perception . |
| 3 | The CTP proclaims that the link between the perceived object and the perception is just an ordinary bit of the great causal nexus of nature ( it needs to believe this , as we shall see presently ) and yet it is prepared to accept that this segment of the chain has a rather privileged status ; at the very least , that it has a beginning and an end . |
| 4 | At the very least this bolting goes against the spirit of the bolting and access agreements . |
| 5 | Across to the right a group of pegs promised a slight ledge and a belay , but in between lay an apparently blank wall , clearly a two hook job at the very least . |
| 6 | Yet vestigial gestures towards value persist , usually at the end of an exposition , where the critic in a final flourish claims , or at least hopes , that something valuable has emerged from the analysis ; a revelation of the quality of the author 's imagination ; or of the inevitable tendency of all texts to be about their own processes of composition , or to come apart in the reader 's hand ; or of the aesthetic fascination of the patterns of imagery that have been revealed ; or , at the very least , and least interestingly , that something ‘ interesting ’ will have been said . |
| 7 | If we are discussing a football match or a meal in a restaurant , then at the very least we should all have seen the match or eaten the meal . |
| 8 | At the very least , Hong Kong must prepare to be a little more self-reliant for growth in the 1990s : public spending , particularly on infrastructural projects , is likely to assume a bigger and more virtuous role . |
| 9 | At the very least , the exhibition provides food for thought : as the 21st century nears , do we really want architecture that looks as if it was built in the 18th ? |
| 10 | And although the Newsons concede the chicken and egg possibility — do you smack a child because he is delinquent , or is he delinquent because he is smacked ? — they argue that their findings do not support the old belief that sparing the rod spoils the child , but suggest that at the very least , mothers who smack do not succeed in producing non-delinquent children . |
| 11 | On other issues , such as nuclear weapons , it could construct a broad enough coalition to determine party policy ( or , at the very least , limit Mr Kinnock 's room for manoeuvre ) . |
| 12 | ‘ We are entering , at the very least , softer economic conditions in Australia and Britain , ’ Mr Murdoch said . |
| 13 | At the very least , he would have to reckon on the 21 votes in the Cabinet being stacked up against him . |
| 14 | At the very least it prompts the response ‘ What elements of the media ? |
| 15 | If murders , however defined , followed no more unfavourable a pattern than other violent crimes or crime generally , then at the very least a verdict of ‘ Not proven ’ must be returned . |
| 16 | Lawrence also remained fascinated by anality , and in Women in Love ( ch. 23 , ‘ Excurse ’ ) there is that celebration of the potency of heterosexual anal intercourse where desire would , at the very least , seem to confuse his distinction between anality and sexuality proper : |
| 17 | That smacks of what he and his co-author themselves describe ( p. 244 ) as suppressio veri , at the very least . |
| 18 | Not to know her , not to love her ( at the very least , not to want to love her ) was to deny oneself the totality of experience . |
| 19 | At the very least , the CEGB should be divided into a wider range of generating companies to stimulate competition . |
| 20 | And of course they will suffer consequences — at the very least those of wasted time and lost opportunities . |
| 21 | And of course they will suffer consequences — at the very least those of wasted time and lost opportunities . |
| 22 | At the very least , it would mean that the real issues are debated rather than the trivial detail of statistics and history . |
| 23 | Perhaps in response to this call for negotiations ( though that is something that the administration would not admit ) , Mr Baker is set to make another tour of allied capitals in Europe and the Middle East , during which he would , at the very least , be available for a meeting in Baghdad . |
| 24 | At the very least it might have asked itself how it intended to make money selling American shares to Americans at a time when Wall Street 's native giants were incapable of doing so . |
| 25 | Vocational training was not a high priority , thanks to his artistic bent , but also to the trust that would supply , at the very least , his mad money — between twenty six and thirty thousand dollars a year . |
| 26 | Nigel 's wife was obviously such a monster , too , that it had to be any good woman 's Christian duty to save him from a fate worse than death , or at the very least to give him a little light relief . |
| 27 | At the very least , they make you listen and think . |
| 28 | He thought of the pattern of his visit so far ; the revelation of Rose McGarry 's death ; the discovery of the swan ; Jos 's warning ( had it been Jos 's strong arm holding him back in the dream ? ) ; and this most recent sign , which at the very least told him that someone had entered his room , his own sanctuary . |
| 29 | Faith had disposed of the money and belongings as she chose and everyone had that right , at the very least . |
| 30 | ‘ It is the very least one can do . ’ |