Example sentences of "least of [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You see dears , ’ said the old lady , ‘ no one , least of all a great detective , believes what they read in the newspapers . ’ |
| 2 | Kelly knew Bill well enough to be certain that no one , least of all a new owner , would dictate to him which jockey to put up . |
| 3 | Nobody , least of all a Party boss , could be expected to watch , still more record , domestic television output ! |
| 4 | It is , however , difficult indeed to understand the two Bucks players adopting questionable tactics , least of all a childish device to enlarge the wicket . |
| 5 | She was going to edge him into a situation where it would be openly discourteous to refuse her , and nothing in his education or his upbringing had prepared him to be discourteous to anyone , least of all a woman . |
| 6 | In the mid-eighteenth century , Germany was not — and never had been — a notable centre of classical studies , and least of all a centre of Greek studies . |
| 7 | Least of all a woman . |
| 8 | ‘ The tea itself , ’ I reflect aloud , ‘ is transformed by bleaching it with milk , so it no way resembles the complexions of those swarthy people , least of all the inhabitants of a tea-producing Indian subcontinent . |
| 9 | But no German , least of all the East Germans , would want Soviet troops to stay there indefinitely . |
| 10 | Nobody , least of all the press corps plane-spotting outside Incirlik air base , believed the first official tale : that the waves of American aircraft returning with their bomb pods empty had been off on a training exercise . |
| 11 | The NSA is now so large , so complex , and so secret that no one in America , least of all the president or Congress , has any idea what it is doing or how sensibly the taxpayers ' money is being spent . |
| 12 | You 're a threat and nobody in this place tolerates that , least of all the Stasis … ’ |
| 13 | Alas for Waldron , his Wales achieved none of these aspirations , least of all the last and , as the recent French match showed , to this day muddled decision-making infects Welsh play . |
| 14 | The dangers were clear and ultimately no one benefited , least of all the students . |
| 15 | Yet nobody , save for a few free-market purists , seems to be worrying — least of all the Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission , whose office is located next to the finance ministry . |
| 16 | That means making it clear that it will not allow anyone to steal the election , least of all the Cambodian army , which is the servant of the state , not of the CPP . |
| 17 | Few would argue to this day , though , least of all the legion of pianists who have since played ( including myself ) and recorded this masterpiece , that Horowitz 's highly musical and white-hot interpretation remains an unchallenged tour de force . |
| 18 | I would not have entrusted , to use Jennie Lee 's pungent phrase , the conduct of a chip shop to him , least of all the nation 's international affairs , but I could not say with any firm conviction that they have necessarily been handled better by his successors of either party . |
| 19 | She felt it unnecessary to mention some of the incidents that had taken place over the last few days , least of all the confrontation at the cottage the previous night . |
| 20 | The result , as the transcripts and analysis in Report 11 show , can be a charade of pseudo-enquiry which fools nobody , least of all the children , but which wastes a great deal of time . |
| 21 | At the present point in time there are those who are of the opinion that no sacrifice is too great for our democracy , least of all the sacrifice of democracy itself to the power of the judges and enslaving legal limitations . |
| 22 | It is that industry itself has come to hold a position of exclusive predominance among human interests , which no single interest , and least of all the provision of the material means of existence , is fit to occupy . |
| 23 | Unfortunately , however , ‘ no one , least of all the CNAA itself , seems certain of the precise meaning and intention of ‘ Partnership in validation ’ . |
| 24 | Least of all the chemist . ’ |
| 25 | No-one pretends that preventing further tragedies will be an easy matter , least of all the mountain rescue teams whose job it frequently is to haul the body-bags from the hills . |