Example sentences of "least [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result , at least off the track and in business , he had about him only sycophants . |
| 2 | The various groups keep a fairly sharp difference between them , centering their activities , not least through the exigencies of the two languages , in their own areas : essentially in the East ( French ) and West ( English — which includes the large Scottish and ‘ other ’ cultural elements ) . |
| 3 | Indeed , as Rome and the Eastern churches were drifting apart , not least through the Iconoclastic Controversy , Boniface and his mission were preparing a new Rome-centred area of authority in the North . |
| 4 | These are necessarily reflected in this book , not least through the voices of people from the region : beyond a certain point second-guessing is not possible . |
| 5 | And it was a record that came to be seen and recognised by the local electorate , in particular the newly enfranchised women , not least through the efforts of Labour candidates to exploit it to political advantage . |
| 6 | Fasciclin III is normally expressed at the NMJ at least through the end of embryogenesis . |
| 7 | Of recent years , not least through the coming into their own of women this century , the question has arisen for Christians as to how far the concretion is itself inspired . |
| 8 | Taxpayers , at least through the political process , might find such hard data useful , as broad rules of thumb to confirm subjective perceptions about performance . |
| 9 | Yet now it is so much harder to move assets they are re-asserting their traditional role , not least through the marketing of property audits , in helping businesses to manage them more effectively instead . |
| 10 | Because of the flow of capital receipts we have been able to increase the cash spent on social housing , not least through the agency to which my hon. Friend referred , the Housing Corporation , whose budget is shortly to rise to £2 billion a year . |
| 11 | The charges of genocide that followed were denied by Iraq but pressure accumulated for a UN investigation , not least through the criticism of Turkish premier Ozal , whose own country 's relations with its Kurdish minority have enjoyed a chequered history over the years . |
| 12 | This duality between solidity and beauty thus expressed a sharp division between the material and the ideal , the bodily and the spiritual , highly typical of the bourgeois world ; yet spirit and ideal in it depended on matter , and could be expressed only through matter , or at least through the money which could buy it . |
| 13 | The bed was necessary , because Lewis intended to sleep in the College , at least during the week in term-time . |
| 14 | Her freehold and copyhold land , it is true , remained her own ; but the husband had the enjoyment of it at least during the continuance of the marriage . |
| 15 | Undoubtedly the BLR&DD , by its injection of substantial funding into the UK scene , has stimulated considerable activity and interest in particular areas of user education , at least during the term of funding of the projects . |
| 16 | For every act of violence quoted by Mr. Cleaver , one could cite an Arab attack , massacre or atrocity , not least during the Intifada which has seen well over 500 Palestinians murdered by his fellow Palestinians . |
| 17 | Goody himself in a later essay points out that ‘ at least during the last 2,000 years the vast majority of peoples of the world ( most of Eurasia and much of Africa ) have lived in neither kind of situation , but in cultures which were influenced in some degree by the circulation of the written word , by the presence of groups or individuals who could read or write ’ ( 1968 , p. 4 ) . |
| 18 | Midlands men are the most enthusiastic exponents of oral sex — at least during the past 12 months . |
| 19 | And there are enough fragments in the Gospels — the baptism in the Jordan , for instance , and the triumphal entry into Jerusalem — to indicate that Jesus did indeed enjoy that title , at least during the years of his ministry . |
| 20 | Vice versa , substantial immigration into growth areas causes social problems of crime , mental illness , etc. , at least during the initial period of settling down . |
| 21 | It is hardly surprising that special procedures have been devised to make provision for claims of this size , and that the way in which the county court handles such claims has been the subject of close scrutiny and criticism , not least during the recent Civil Justice Review . |
| 22 | It was anticipated , however , that at least during the first stage Gorbachev would make extensive use of emergency powers , granted to him in September , to introduce reforms by presidential decree . |
| 23 | For all the unmanoeuvrability of armour in the inhospitable southern sector , the Iraqi leadership evidently decided to retain the option to bring it into play at some stage , at least during the warmer months . |
| 24 | Such a mode of subsistence demands that the population be relatively sparsely dispersed , at least during the daytime while foraging is going on . |
| 25 | ‘ In fact , I never knew he had any — at least during the ‘ Carry On ’ years . |
| 26 | The Stockholm Open would have a strong claim , but so too would Tokyo , not least for the enormous amount of Japanese funding there is these days for tennis . |
| 27 | Having realised , I suspect , at least for the time being , that they are not going to get anywhere in their fight for equal prize money at Wimbledon or the French , the Women 's Tennis Association have come up with another proposal which I know has support in some areas but which I certainly hope will also bite the dust . |
| 28 | But the dilemma , at least for the television journalist , is not quite as simple as that . |
| 29 | As the pound slid through the important benchmark of DM3 to close at DM2.9737 and lost ground against the dollar , most analysts agreed that the Chancellor would resist a further hike in interest rates at least for the duration of the Conservative Party conference , and possibly for some weeks to come . |
| 30 | The Chancellor has evidently made it clear to Moscow that West Germany respects East Germany 's existence as a separate state , that it does not want to alter the present military set-up of Nato and the Warsaw Pact , and that although it aims to overcome the division of Europe , this does not also apply to the political division of Germany — at least for the foreseeable future . |