Example sentences of "least the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If one may accept the equivalence of at least the concepts underlying the terms and on the one hand and and on the other , there is thus some solid evidence , in addition to the line of reasoning advanced above , to suggest that the concept of a division between " the interior " and " the exterior " existed at least from fairly early on in the sixteenth century ; and it is not unreasonable to suppose that the terms haric and dahil are not anachronistic in respect of the Kanunname . |
| 2 | Pearce et al. ( 1989 ) have argued that the effects of government , commercial and other actions on the environment can and should be assessed on a cost/benefit basis and this seems likely to be the basis on which at least the UK government will proceed . |
| 3 | There are still many anomalies and too many disabled persons are dependent on income support , but at least the attendance and mobility allowances go some way towards acknowledging the financial burdens of disability . |
| 4 | But at least the Knitting Factory is blessed with a far better PA than is the normal preserve of such places — donated , apparently , by no less than Laurie Anderson — and the fragile webs of such head-in-the-oven epics as ‘ Power Failure ’ and the pulse-pummelling opener ‘ Bell ’ remain sufficiently well-spun to snag even the most neutral observer . |
| 5 | Because facing such questions has brought the work on long-term memory in Aplysia into the same biochemical arena as my own in the chick , I want to postpone considering them for the present and instead look at some of the problems which , in its singlemindedly reductionist approach , Aplysian orthodoxy — at least the orthodoxy of the mid-1980s , as I suspect that the position is now becoming much more flexible — has ignored . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , at least the newspapers ca n't get it now . ’ |
| 7 | Well , at least the pub still had all its windows . |
| 8 | At least the Turks should be able to , erm , ‘ cope ’ hehehehe . |
| 9 | And it was to restore order , as much as anything , that a nominally Vietnamese administration provided at least the façade of an ‘ independent ’ Vietnamese government . |
| 10 | There were one or two shock inclusions , not least the redundancy of Chris Brunker of Christies . |
| 11 | The listing was something of a wet blanket — half of the shares were left with the underwriting institutions — but at least the company had got its listing away . |
| 12 | If the Unix versus NT struggle ends in a bloodbath , it at least the company will not have all its eggs in one basket . |
| 13 | Such a move would appear sensible because , if the Unix versus NT struggle ends in a bloodbath , it at least the company will not have all its eggs in one basket . |
| 14 | In order to do this , however , Britain must herself become in some degree protectionist and place tariffs on foreign imports of at least the things which the Dominions had to sell to her — above all , food , if not also raw materials . |
| 15 | Although the US , or at least the State Department , ‘ frankly [ had ] no solution of problem to suggest ’ it was obvious that the US was at this stage hoping for a negotiated settlement , a settlement in which their further hope was that France would find it possible to be more than generous . |
| 16 | The strength of union bargaining power is , however , variable , being dependent on such factors as levels of unionisation , the regulatory controls to which unions are required to conform , the ease with which the employer can transfer operations to another country , and not least the state of the employment market . |
| 17 | Given the strict timetable for submission of the SIP and attainment of NAAQSs , it was not surprising that some states would face enormous difficulties , not least the state of California . |
| 18 | The family were n't exactly wild about me — at least the women were n't — ‘ |
| 19 | Those who wanted to and could effectively ‘ associate ’ might at best shrug their shoulders at , and at worst despise , those who neither could nor wanted to , not least the women , who were virtually excluded from the world of club formalities , points-of-order and proposals for membership . |
| 20 | Wherever we have any hard information , it suggests several forces might have been at work , not least the school . |
| 21 | But at least the money saved over the years by cycling has enabled me to afford early retirement , and escape the commuter rat-race ! |
| 22 | The bourgeois was , if not a different species , then at least the member of a superior race , a higher stage in human evolution , distinct from the lower orders who remained in the historical or cultural equivalent of childhood or at most adolescence . |
| 23 | Only a minority of the population would have the plasmids needed to combat such a stress but at least the species , if not a majority of individuals , would survive . |
| 24 | The Committee would have liked to secure legislation which ensured that at least the existence of every computerised system handling personal information was known : such provisions apply in other Western democracies , but the British tradition of shielding National Security matters even from Parliamentary scrutiny militated against such disclosures here . |
| 25 | At least the existence of a range of alternative modes of provision as between one local authority and another widens the choice available . |
| 26 | Although Chief Pillmoor was n't everybody 's cup of tea , Vi had discovered , at least the lady was fair and had no favourites . |
| 27 | ‘ Yes , at least the lady I was trying to trace married someone called McMahon . |
| 28 | It should be a cloudy night , or day , with at least the threat of rain , if not a light drizzle . |
| 29 | If the Regent and the cavalry could be brought back , and urged to make some sort of attack , or at least the threat of attack , Edward would have other things to think about than hanging hostages . |
| 30 | Clearly therefore a bare majority of DGMs believe that at least the threat of competition is necessary to exert leverage , even if , as the case studies show , they do not contemplate moving much business from their main providers . |