Example sentences of "least [adv] [adv] [subord] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because Burma is not a rich country the potential for racketeering is limited , and shrugged off , For those Burmese who want one foot in the material world , at least so far as the occasional bottle of Scotch is concerned , the black market exists . |
| 2 | The Secretary of State has in mind using the Records of Achievement as the repository of pupil achievements in the tests and assessments at age 7 , 11 , 14 and 16 — at least so far as the sole mandatory requirements are concerned . |
| 3 | He replied that on the facts as stated it did not appear , at least so far as the testator 's words were concerned , that it was entrusted to Pamphilus that he should make over a hundred . |
| 4 | They made up the double bed in William and Kate 's room , which was the best room in the house , overlooking the back garden and mercifully free from images of death , destruction and eternal torment , which presumably meant that William had been kept out of it , at least so far as the decor was concerned . |
| 5 | At the moment it is still a new and unproven product but it could well represent the next generation of TechDoc software , at least so far as the corporate publisher is concerned . |
| 6 | university this term , at least so far as the community is concerned , is our Open Day on Saturday June the fourteenth . |
| 7 | Tolerance of strangers may be morally right however threatened one feels , at least so long as the strangers respect the laws and customs of the country they have settled in . |
| 8 | While diesel cars will never be seen as road burners , they will go at least as fast as the ‘ cooking ’ versions of ordinary petrol-powered saloons and hatchbacks . |
| 9 | Extensive lead mining was done on Grassington Moor , north-east of this Wharfedale village , from at least as early as the Tudor period , and some remains of the industry are still to be seen , mainly dating from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries . |
| 10 | Natural fish oil has been used as a traditional folk remedy at least as early as the eighteenth century . |
| 11 | Similar cuts were used by Indian lapidaries , at least as early as the seventeenth century . |
| 12 | Such an idea was beginning to be put forward at least as early as the 1720s . |
| 13 | People whose wealth consists mainly of real property , on the other hand , are likely to find that the value of their wealth rises at least as rapidly as the general price level . |
| 14 | This was clearly a wild exaggeration , but it showed , at least as far as the large Catholic minority of Belorussia was concerned , that any attempt to base nationalism on Catholic separatism would be doomed to failure . |
| 15 | Therefore it does not look as though the explanation of the action clients ' failure to be supported at home for longer than control samples is due to their more problematic home care potential ( at least as far as the characteristics described above are concerned ) . |
| 16 | A chemical fire in Switzerland caused toxic materials to be transported by the Rhine at least as far as the Netherlands ; |
| 17 | He would go with them at least as far as the bridge . |
| 18 | So the Cabriolet 's top is hollow down at least as far as the bass E string , and I suspect a little further . |
| 19 | Gibraltar , for instance , is often used to hold Spanish assets , although the Spanish tax authorities are aware of the situation and attempting to limit it at least as far as the holding of real property is concerned . |
| 20 | The study of the proposed L.R.T. system had been ordered by the Department of the Environment , and it appeared to all intents and purposes that any future for the Comber-Dundonald portion of the line , at least as far as the Trust was concerned , were dead and buried , as it seemed evident that the D.O.E . |
| 21 | Indeed , Beccaria 's classical model , at least as far as the form and content of actual penal treatments are concerned , has never really been tried — if we are to accept Foucault 's version of events . |
| 22 | That unhinging extended back at least as far as the Japanese attack on the American fleet at Pearl Harbor in December 1941 , a crisis which allowed Franklin Roosevelt finally to break free from the congressional restraints on executive action that had been operative in the inter war period . |
| 23 | But at least as far as the church is concerned , a conservative believes that what place a woman should hold was made known in the past and stands for all time . |
| 24 | Commenting on the composition of the Edinburgh Trades Council in mid-century , Ian McDougall writes : " local trade unionism was predominantly , though not exclusively , that of the skilled workers or labour aristocracy " In printing , a craft trade par excellence , organization went back as least as far as the eighteenth century in Edinburgh and several other towns . |
| 25 | Another reason for norm-referenced tests not providing a description of what a pupil knows and can do is the lack of clear specification of learning objectives , at least as far as the formulation of pupil performance on the test is concerned . |
| 26 | Chapter 12 will examine the challenge to the notion that the shareholders are uniquely qualified to be holders of residual rights , and the argument that a form of productive organisation in which the trading surplus accrues to the employees rather than the providers of capital is capable of operating no less efficiently , at least as far as the control of shirking is concerned , than the existing corporate form . |
| 27 | This difference of perspective and lack of immediate concern with definitions of power and with empiricist rigour result in research methods which may appear to be more approximate in their conclusions than are the pluralists , at least as far as the distribution of power is concerned . |
| 28 | In any case , even the GCC itself recognises that such a defence structure will be inadequate — at least as far as the Gulf is concerned . |
| 29 | One of the bearded pig 's most endearing habits — at least as far as the human inhabitants of its native Borneo are concerned — is its tendency , in the occasional year , to form huge herds and plunge lemming-like through the rainforest in a desperate craving for a certain food item ( a kind of acorn , it is thought ) , whose supply fluctuates . |
| 30 | The more I thought about it , the more I looked forward to seeing this little known mountainous region , and I had every intention of penetrating at least as far as the Webi Shebeli river . |