Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] least [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | SCOTLAND now has at least a tenuous connection with the WBC heavyweight championship contest between the holder , Lennox Lewis , and Tommy Tucker in Las Vegas in May . |
2 | But as regards his goods and chattels , which include his leaseholds , it is early admitted that he has at least a limited power to dispose by will — limited because his wife and children may have rights which he can not override . |
3 | The explanation of this is to be found in the matters propounded in Chapter One , that is , that members of the human race have a deeply felt need for a ‘ god ’ and a religion , and as almost everybody is reared within a family or group with some kind of religious background , each has at least a lingering allegiance to some form of established religion . |
4 | Whilst all school knowledge has at least an implicit pedagogy this tradition places the ‘ way the child learns ’ as the central concern in devising subject content . |
5 | ‘ Any Englishman , ’ said Thiercelin between sips , ‘ who is drifting about Vienna at present , supposedly as a tourist , has at least an even chance of being one of Pitt 's spies . |
6 | This allows at least a reasonable throughput of air ; the mid-day temperatures are usually around 80 to 100°F , sometimes more . |
7 | It meets at least every two months , setting and monitoring Group strategy , reviewing trading performance , ensuring adequate funding , examining major acquisition and joint venture possibilities , formulating policy on key issues and reporting to shareholders . |
8 | For example , polonium-210 concentrates at least a thousand times in fresh fish and more in shellfish . |
9 | In those societies of the late twentieth century in which there exists at least a minimal freedom of expression and association social movements are a means by which members of society can express dissent and opposition in a direct and immediate way , and can challenge the indifference , remoteness or negligence of party machines . |
10 | The classification of this category is not free from difficulty but it includes at least a common law lien and a lien arising by operation of law . |
11 | A model of the physiological processes concerned with cognition requires at least a four-part system with feedback loops between them . |
12 | The religious belief of the time requires at least a substantial part of his property to be devoted to the good of his soul . |
13 | Windows 3.1 requires at least a 80286 processor , 1MB of memory , a hard disc with 10 MB free and a DOS of 3.1 or later . |
14 | This requires at least a further hour to be added to the overlap , thus a minimum of 2–2½ hours in total is justifiable in some circumstances . |
15 | But Mr Hughes is a keen pupil ; he has discovered Doctor Dee and Hermes Trismegistes from Frances Yates , and while he follows her he treads at least a wavy line , he does not loop the loop . |
16 | If modernization means the differentiation of fields , postmodernization means at least the partial collapse of some fields into other fields . |
17 | Thus a functional prerequisite of society involves at least a minimal degree of integration between the parts . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | The previous day , she had demanded halts at least a dozen times , claiming they were being followed by something in the undergrowth , to the left of their narrow path . |
20 | Sex education draws together much of the Whitehouse ‘ philosophy ’ , for not only does it explicitly focus upon the young , but also it carries at least an implicit stance on the role and utility of the contemporary family . |
21 | Data from the 1985 GHS provides at least a partial answer to this question by providing information about who helped those older people who required assistance with a whole variety of adl tasks . |
22 | Market economics clearly makes a number of effective criticisms of demand management , and its emphasis on the limited competence of government to promote economic growth provides at least a valuable corrective to what became the orthodox political economy of the post-war period . |
23 | The energy and enthusiasm black youth have for certain sports and the disproportionately high number wanting to take up sport as a career provides at least the initial indication that they see in successful black sportsmen models for themselves . |
24 | The girl who is black and the daughter of working class parents faces at least a triple disadvantage compared with a white middle-class boy . |
25 | He now faces at least a heavy fine ; perhaps even a jail sentence . |
26 | Neither environmental influences or gender differences , however , offer the whole explanation and evidence from twin concordance studies suggests at least a contributory role for genetic factors in determining individual susceptibility to alcohol related liver disease . |
27 | Progress becomes slower as the front face of the square-cut buttress is neared , and the though provoking and insecure terrain usually brings at least a temporary halt to the proceedings . |