Example sentences of "[not/n't] least [art] " in BNC.

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1 Like any form of art , music has an intrinsic ability to revitalise itself ; but when this is stimulated by ‘ external ’ factors , for example , those that become operative in the wake of the industrial revolution , the Darwinian ferment and the resurgence of nationalism in the 19th century , not least a species of war-mongering , then wholly new genres may emerge .
2 Unhappily , the pairing of England and Holland will be the centre of attention for all the wrong reasons , not least a repetition of the media hyperbole which accompanied their European Championship match in Dusseldorf 18 months ago .
3 The loss of confidence which set in after Stalingrad was not least a consequence of the totally misleading and outrightly mendacious German propaganda which had preceded the catastrophe .
4 This highlight sustains us through successive rooms of the flotsam and jetsam of royal life , not least a sample of the reams of press cuttings .
5 Delving deep into its archives it has come up with some winners , not least a luscious 1947 performance of Bax 's The Garden of Fand that I once possessed and enjoyed in its original , 78 rpm form .
6 The initial survey of all people with learning difficulties in the County in 1982–3 had revealed many social and leisure needs , not least a need to maintain and extend the provision of playschemes in the summer holidays .
7 Of course this sally , and the discovery of our locational ancestry opened the way to friendship , though we soon realised that we had much more in common , not least a sharp sense of humour , which we were both going to need .
8 And Strudwick 's optimistic mood outweighs a mountain of problems , not least a Portakabin as a headquarters and an average gate hardly reaching four figures .
9 All prizes Supplied by Program Solutions ( UK ) Ltd call 091 384 5401 for more information and last but not least a built-in joystick port .
10 Alyson thinks that her most useful legacy from her time at Somerville was ‘ not the history I learned … but the techniques and mental disciplines ( including not least a good arguing style ! ) ’
11 Last but not least a shot of a baby .
12 But British Telecom points out there are disadvantages to switching to cable , not least a change of telephone number .
13 But British Telecom points out there are disadvantages to switching to cable , not least a change of telephone number .
14 HARRY NEUBAUER , who has died aged 59 , was a psychiatrist of multifarious qualities — not least an exuberant personality which lent his earnest profession a splash of much-needed colour .
15 The rest of the journey , not least an eight hour wait for a connection in Los Angeles , was not , I have to admit , so memorable or pleasing .
16 Ho responded immediately to this newspaper article by proposing various measures which might lead to a return to normality and to the hopeful provisions of the modus vivendi , not least an end to the press and radio incitements from both sides , but whether at this stage Ho and Blum were in the saddle or not , things were beginning to fall apart .
17 Finally we are offered such topics as Landscape-Movement ( Joan Eardley , W.G. Gilles , John Minton and Ivon Hitchens ) and Landscape-Space , with last but not least an Elizabeth Blackadder still life and Edward Middleditch 's panoramic vision of sea and rocks .
18 We need have no reservation that such memories , not least the sounds , entered deeply into the young boy 's consciousness , as his mother gave vent to her distress in English and her native Yiddish , as well as symbolically rending her clothes and chanting the dirges .
19 Their whole emphasis was against conventionalism — in every form , not least the sexual , the religious and the artistic .
20 Sooner , rather than later , Europe will be forced to bring the standard of its financial reporting in line with the rest of the world , not least the US .
21 Sir : Contentious points are raised in your leading article , ‘ High time for monetary union ’ ( 11 October ) , not least the title , which itself implies an ideological support for ‘ European union ’ in favour of an analytical study of the forces at work in Europe .
22 He is justifiably proud of what he and his father achieved at Lingfield , not least the deal they struck with the redoubtable Cyril Stein of Ladbrokes when they bought the course from his company seven years ago .
23 Under docks and willowherb , the Bunker was still there , sealed but poisoned and poisonous , in a haunted city the spectres of an evil past still emanating from it , not least the ghosts of the six children of the Goebbels , killed by their own parents as a final insane act of homage to Der Führer .
24 But that is true of all creatures great and small , not least the worm .
25 Plenty of others remain , not least the shortage of engineers — not so much of graduates as of technicians .
26 In all probability it was a combination of several factors , not least the suspected flaw in her stamina which made her vulnerable once that fierce early pace had been set by St Denis .
27 The foundations of Old Testament kingship were laid by scholars who wrote on the Old Testament , not least the Venerable Bede in the early decades of the eighth century .
28 In such ways , Hitler set the vicious tone for discrimination and persecution , providing the touchstone and legitimation for initiatives which largely came from others at various levels of the Party , the State bureaucracy , and not least the SS-SD-Gestapo complex , where the ‘ Jewish Question ’ had a key functional role .
29 Obviously this caused a great deal of distress for all concerned , not least the hospital team .
30 So while many City analysts are now predicting that the FT-SE index could rise another 20 p.c. by the end of the year , such forecasts carry caveats : not least the anticipation of more than a token cut in interest rates .
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