Example sentences of "least the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least the lost afternoon guaranteed a certain spontaneity . |
| 2 | Full realisation of the meaning of the partial divergence in styles of appeal between parliament and country requires recognition of at least the limited equation of ‘ enthusiasm ’ with popular opinion . |
| 3 | At least the evergreen Granada is good value in this company . |
| 4 | Er Mr Major pretends it 's his but Mr Patten , if I understand Mr Patten rightly , says the country ca n't afford it , so here again if they ca n't afford it , I certainly ca n't county , county must afford er at least the six hundred and thirty five thousand which is in our proposals er that will be nine , sixty five in a full year , to find nine hundred and twenty extra places . |
| 5 | If modernization means the differentiation of fields , postmodernization means at least the partial collapse of some fields into other fields . |
| 6 | The worst result of the earthquake was that its consequences gave an excuse to the town-planners , not least the great urban visionary himself , to undertake grandiose schemes of urban renewal . |
| 7 | Like the Zande they live in the southern Sudan and have been studied by Evans-Pritchard , so that at least the personal equation can be held constant in comparisons between these two cultures . |
| 8 | These Proposals represent a significant change in the character of community nursing , not least the effective phasing out of specific specialist community job titles such as district nurse and health visitor . |
| 9 | He found it in Protestantism , or at least the Calvinist version of it . |
| 10 | Outside Parliament , an all-party Children 's Minimum Campaign Committee had been formed in 1934 ‘ to ensure that no child shall by reason of the poverty of its parents be deprived of at least the minimum food and other requirements for full health ’ . |
| 11 | Each month cardholders can either pay off their whole bill , in which case they pay no interest charges and the credit is ‘ free ’ for up to fifty six days ; or they can pay off at least the minimum amount , which is usually 5% or 5 , whichever is the greater . |
| 12 | Before a module is accepted by LIFESPAN , its header is checked to ensure that all its constituent keywords are present and that they contain at least the minimum amount of information required . |
| 13 | Mr Woodley said the ballot had already achieved its objection of bringing pressure on the receivers and the Government to sanction immediate payments of at least the minimum state redundancy payoff to the 1,600 workers who have already lost their jobs . |
| 14 | He has a habit of playing in at least the inaugural event held on one of his lay-outs and in December 1988 fully intended to play in the Austrian Open of 1989 . |
| 15 | Such reclining figures , clasping either a cornucopia or an urn ( and sometimes both ) , date back to at least the mid-sixteenth century ( for example at the Villa Lante at Bagnaia in Italy ) and were a commonplace in late seventeenth-century Baroque gardens ( for example at Vaux-le-Vicomte , Versailles and Het Loo ) . |
| 16 | By the time of the French revolution three main classes of diplomat were generally recognised : the ambassador , with or without the title of " extraordinary " ; the envoy or envoy extraordinary , often with the additional designation of " minister plenipotentiary " ; and the resident , or now more commonly minister resident ( the term " minister " as a somewhat vague diplomatic title went back to at least the mid-sixteenth century ) . |
| 17 | Both the diffusionist and the evolutionary methods contrast with the structural-functional , which is above all contextual , and seeks at least the primary significance of the present in the present rather than in the past . |
| 18 | A well-established approach denies that the public interest is the relevant standard , or at least the primary standard , by which company law should be assessed . |
| 19 | The only thing is , at least the civil war is finished so er , wo once they get their distribution problem sorted out they reckon , sort of |
| 20 | If I could just get a role doing some of the falls in the action replays , say , I could save him from horrible injury , or at least the odd booking . |
| 21 | Her favourite line was Bernhardt 's , and this she copied into the front of each of the eighteen notebooks , at least the five of them that I still have ; Oh well , I 'll just buy the theatre . |
| 22 | At least the disgusting taste of mint concentrated his mind . |
| 23 | Because of the threat which " Communism " , or at least the Soviet Union , is believed to pose to " the free world " , we still need to defend democracy ( it is argued ) , but in real , military and ideological terms , not in theory . |
| 24 | The contributions that were to be offered with the study of process may be surveyed from the viewpoint of soil science and the biogeographer , from that of the climatologist and the geomorphologist and then from the field of hydrology which to some extent provided a new focus of interest for physical geographers and one that proffered a link between at least the geomorphic and climatic aspects of physical environment . |
| 25 | More recent studies have shown that at least the higher primates display REM while sleeping , and therefore probably do dream . |
| 26 | But then , either Hobbes has failed to distinguish the child from at least the higher and domesticated animals or the force of ‘ intelligently ’ must be explained in such a way as to exclude animals . |
| 27 | First , as until at least the late 1960's the Club was in poor straits financially — mostly , but not entirely , to do with low membership , there was no way in which it could contemplate buying out the bonds either at par or in instalments ( of not less than £2 10s. 0d. per bond ) as allowed by the rules . |
| 28 | This fashion of dimidiation was abandoned by at least the late fourteenth century and replaced by the style of compressing each set of armorial bearings onto one half of the shield — the husband 's being placed on the dexter and the wife 's on the sinister . |
| 29 | Western music as a whole , since at least the late Middle Ages , is best seen as a ‘ total system ’ . |
| 30 | One reason for the weakness of the Communist movement in Mexico is that intellectuals were effectively incorporated into the system until at least the late 1960s , the Mexican government ‘ preferring the price of appeasing or coopting intellectuals to the perils of ignoring or alienating them ’ . |