Example sentences of "least [prep] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Hence , notably in ‘ Gerontion ’ , Eliot 's ability to approximate and even conform to Jacobean blank verse , yet to depart from it smoothly when he pleased. ) Pound 's verse on the contrary was , at least after Homage to Sextus Propertius , free , not ‘ freed ’ : the rhythms that he sought and attained either had never appeared before in the language , or else had not appeared there for many centuries . |
| 2 | That the amateur code allows players to be exploited for the enhancement of someone else 's bottom line should alone be enough to implement changes , at least with respect to produce endorsement ’ , Hadley says . |
| 3 | They argued that , at least with respect to earnings , ‘ male clerks and shopworkers are now firmly among the broad mass of ordinary labour ; and indeed often well down towards the bottom of the pile ’ . |
| 4 | Econometric evidence in support of this — at least with respect to the demand for labour supplied by " temporary help " firms ( the equivalent of agencies in Britain ) — has been presented by Joray ( 1981 ) for the USA . |
| 5 | An account of professional courses — at least with respect to PGCE — is in principle just as complex because even the advent of accreditation has not enforced uniformity . |
| 6 | Perhaps because of the often unequal bargaining positions of landlord and tenant , at least with respect to residential leases , it is rare to find an express covenant to repair placing the duty to repair upon the landlord . |
| 7 | Put this way , it makes the adolescent speakers described sound like adept linguists , at least with respect to a monolingual norm . |
| 8 | By the time it met , however , the momentum for greater political co-operation within the EC , not least in response to East European developments , was such that more radical reform was put in motion . |
| 9 | First , the circumstance that criminal law exhibits some particularly interesting judicial techniques of lawmaking which must be relevant in any account of judicial process which purports at least in part to be descriptive , rather than purely normative . |
| 10 | Foinavon 's win may have been due at least in part to the somewhat unorthodox individual training of his young handler , John Kempton . |
| 11 | The morals one finds at the end of the fabliaux are generally relevant at least in part to the tales that have been told , and on the whole appear ironic only in the sense of the contrast between the worldly-wise , pragmatic and cynical counselling they most frequently offer and the idealistic norms of Christian moralizing that the reader is otherwise prepared for . |
| 12 | The rapid decline in the world 's frog population is due at least in part to pesticides , according to Adelaide Univeristy 's frog expert Michael Tyler , in an address given to the Austrialia and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science ( ANZAAS ) . |
| 13 | This might be due at least in part to the inability of the pSPL1 system to trap the terminal exons . |
| 14 | At that time sodomy was associated with a whole range of evils , including insurrection and heresy ; all such evils could be , and often were , ‘ imagined ’ in the form of , or at least in relation to , the sodomite . |
| 15 | In Art History the rehabilitation of artists and bodies of work which have been overlooked has been going on since Vasari made such a good job of classifying Florentine art that all other art in Italy and beyond has had to be defined , at least until this century , and at some level even now , in relation to Vasari 's classifications , or at least in relation to the model of stylistic evolution which he outlined . |
| 16 | In the light of the revolution in gender attitudes in Western society in the past decade , it is perhaps ironical that the most significant application of British obscenity law in recent years , at least in relation to films and videos , derives almost wholly from the fraternal obligations which men owe to women . |
| 17 | Using a conversion factor of 1,250 feet per inch of mercury the approximate height above ground , at least in relation to the take-off point , could be calculated . |
| 18 | At least in relation to this argument of Thomas ' against the ordination of women , it must be said that it does not hold water . |
| 19 | During North Shields ' development in the second half of the nineteenth century , issues of urban land development were crucial , not least in relation to the politics of the local state . |
| 20 | Indeed , I would go further and conclude that at least in relation to the last three payments the plaintiffs were not under a mistake of law but were strongly of the view that they were under no liability to pay . |
| 21 | There was no appeal against the decision in Ex parte Handscomb so the Secretary of State was bound by this declaration , at least in relation to prisoners serving discretionary life sentences . |
| 22 | Very considerable concern has been expressed about the ventilation systems , not least in relation to the lavatories on some of the platforms . |
| 23 | There is no offence of " criminal slander " , with the result that radio and television commentators appear immune , at least in relation to unscripted remarks . |
| 24 | Though had she , perhaps subconsciously , tried to ignore it — at least in relation to herself and Michele … ? |
| 25 | The initial thump when the hook drives home , and the first short , sharp run are strong enough , but that , usually , is all , at least in comparison to cylindrically-shaped fish . |
| 26 | Although many teachers are genuinely on good form , at least from time to time , others adopt a cheerful and casual manner in the staffroom as a front that bears no relation to how they feel as they drive home , exhausted and depressed , at the end of the day . |