Example sentences of "be the least [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If there 'd been the least sign of magical activity we 'd know about it . ’ |
| 2 | Yes and those two are the least kind of losing . |
| 3 | Other considerations are the least diameter for a given breaking strain ; anti-kink properties ; elasticity and colour . |
| 4 | Ooh you 're the least planner I 've ever known . |
| 5 | To give an indication as it were which in terms of within the City of York , which would be the least worse of the options . |
| 6 | If she spoke , if once there were the least word , the least crack or fissure , upon which tears and screams could follow , she would have lost her one advantage , her source of ordinary viable life , and would be utterly undone and destroyed . |
| 7 | What is the least distance ? |
| 8 | " What is the result of our efforts ? " rather than " What is the least cost of our efforts ? " |
| 9 | But [ since m is the least element of S we have ] |
| 10 | Phosphate is the least problem and , perhaps because of the almost profligate use of bone meal and the very long time it takes for the phosphate to be released by bacterial decomposition , is very seldom indeed the cause for worry . |
| 11 | Then unc otherwise unc for some t ε T so that [ since unc and since no integer lies between k and k+1 ( why not ? ) ] t = k +1 is the least integer in T [ contradicting the assumption that T has no such least integer ) . |
| 12 | As our General Election rises to its soggy climax , you ought to compare the success of an economy where they believe that the best government is the least government . |
| 13 | Thomas discussed the relationship between love and poetry much later in Feminine Influence on the Poet : ‘ The love-poem is not for the beloved , for it is not worthy , as it is the least thing that is given to her , and none knows this better than she unless it be the lover … . |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't think there 's the least danger to you , ’ said Ian reassuringly as they parted . |
| 15 | Get you to answer , that 's the least thing |
| 16 | In general this was the pattern for Polish industrialisation as a whole — a phenomenon that took place when there was the least chance of Poland ever regaining an independent existence . |