Example sentences of "[art] [det] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not the least of the advantages enjoyed by the peripheral regions was cheap coastal transport . |
| 2 | 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 " . |
| 3 | STAMINA is not the least of the qualities demanded of the professional cricketer . |
| 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 | ‘ 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 ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | That , in many ways , was the least of the problems . |
| 8 | Not the least of the problems which Cnut faced as king of England was an important and complex relationship with the English church . |
| 9 | Not the least of the offences which led to Paul 's assassination in 1801 was his contemptuous treatment of courtiers . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ In many ways , Clinton 's victory was the least of the unknowns facing the market , ’ said Ian Amstad , economist at Bankers Trust in London . |
| 13 | Birth was the least of the requirements for co-option to this introverted community . |
| 14 | A test ban is the least of the proliferators ' worries . |
| 15 | These illustrated the some of the changes which gave taken place in the local street scene over the years . |
| 16 | And I put it to the some of the women and men cleaners you see , How would like a rest day roster ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Here 's a list of the some of the things women feel guilty about . |
| 19 | Well the the some of the soldiers and sailors used to walk from all the way home to or or . |
| 20 | Some of the some of the railways were very very functional , not and did n't bother too much about er what places looked like . |
| 21 | And er again just to you know recall some of that to you know the some of the ways that we think about that will be developed in this section . |
| 22 | And I mean , some of the some of the results that we get from this competition , might well be appropriate for a a stand at an exhibition somewhere . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | And one of one of the things that I 've got on a regular basis is the many of the things Harlow Council put on like pop concerts country and western have actually been used by people who who perhaps live outside of Harlow so the Council are now looking at a charging policy but also we should also gon na introduce into the theatre is the leisure card which actually includes that the people actually live in the town local and the reproductional sort of show if they can do so they should buy . |
| 25 | The former related to the quest for spiritual happiness , the latter to the sciences which , in their practical application , helped to constitute a third category of ‘ artificial ’ knowledge . |
| 26 | Malan ignored calls in Parliament for his resignation from both the Democratic Party ( DP ) and the CP — the latter on the grounds that right-wing organizations had been blamed for what had in reality been the activities of the CCB . |
| 27 | For the present , however , the system excludes vehicles , pharmaceuticals and basic foodstuffs , the latter on the grounds that these are already covered by a range of controls . |
| 28 | He likes watching TV with his father and is keen to talk to the latter about the programmes they see together . |
| 29 | He likes watching TV with his father and is keen to talk to the latter about the programmes they see together . |
| 30 | They , and all of life in India in its own way , are sacred , but the holes bored by the former and the mounds erected by the latter in the paddocks were a threat to the horses , Occidental logic demanded that the one could best be filled by the deposition of the other . |