Example sentences of "least [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nonetheless any differences in some aspect of the responses made by subjects to stimuli presented in left and right visual fields may plausibly be attributed , in the absence of more compelling alternative explanations , to differences of one kind or another between left and right cerebral hemispheres , at least where a visual field effect clearly over-rides the effect of stimulus-response compatibility factors ( e.g. Anzola , Bertolini , Buchtel and Rizzolatti , 1977 ) and/or procedures to counterbalance the effect of the responding hand are incorporated into the experimental design . |
| 2 | At least where a right to trial by jury exists , the courts are reluctant ( in cases where national security is not involved ) to allow the Attorney-General to side-step it by approaching the High Court for an injunction to stop the publication or for a declaration that the publication is unlawful : The Voluntary Euthanasia Society published a booklet entitled " A Guide to Self-Deliverance " which discussed the pros and cons of committing suicide and described in detail a number of efficacious methods for so doing . |
| 3 | Other cases are those where the agent 's knowledge and motivation can be surmised from the circumstances of his life ( parents or children ) or where a special arrangement is made to make sure of them ( e.g. , when legislators are periodically elected , thus providing them with motives to find out what are their electors ' best interests and to satisfy them , at least where the prestige , power , and lawful remuneration of their office are their only rewards and where these rewards are themselves substantial ) . |
| 4 | By contrast , nearly two-thirds of American users of fixed-sum instalment credit , at least where the original sum owed is over $200 , have bought insurance , generally paying extra — only a few consider the extra cost expensive , and the great majority of shoppers there ( 94 per cent of those who offered an opinion ) regard credit insurance as a good thing . |
| 5 | In practice , many States seem willing to adopt a generous view of the scope of the Convention , responding to requests to obtain the results of blood-grouping tests ( at least where the subject is willing ) and to provide copies of public documents or of entries in registers of civil status . |
| 6 | The United States Supreme Court has gone further , requiring as a matter of due process that a judge who has been vilified should step down — at least where the matter is left until the end of the trial . |
| 7 | There is now authority that , at least where the harm is interference with trade or business , there is such a tort . |
| 8 | It might seem self-evident that the commission of a crime amounts to unlawful means , but this is not so , at least where the crime is created by statute . |
| 9 | The House of Lords did not grant leave to appeal , the point remains a difficult and important one but the Act may have clarified the point , at least where the scuffle is an ongoing one . |
| 10 | It is contended that , at least where the interpretation of " the term " includes not only the contractual term but also any period of holding over or extension of the contractual term , this could result in the landlord being entitled to review the rent on the day of the commencement of any period of holding over under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 . |
| 11 | It is submitted , therefore , that s3 is capable of applying to clauses which define duties , at least where the clause defines the duties in a way contrary to what a reasonable person would expect in the absence of the term in question , and the drafter should assume that it will apply to all clauses which exclude or limit liability for breach of contract , or allow a party to alter the nature of performance ( see also the attitude of Bridge LJ to clauses seeking to avoid liability for misrepresentation in Cremdean Properties Ltd v Nash ( 1977 ) 244 EG 547 , examined in Chapter 8,2 ) . |
| 12 | And it 's so odd , it 's hard now when somebody says , ‘ What was it like ? ’ or says , ‘ What did she use to wear ? ’ because of course we all saw her all the time and thought nothing of it , saw her at the very least once a week ( missing service , it was called , if you went a week without visiting , and it was certain to be discussed amongst the congregation when you did finally show up ) , it 's just very odd for me to think that you were never there and that this is all strange to you when to us it was just an ordinary life . |
| 13 | A thorough home safety check at least once a year is a good idea . |
| 14 | Crystal Palace are terrifying on paper at least although the heavier grounds may already be finding them out . |
| 15 | At a meeting of the European Commission last week , the Commissioner for tax , France 's Christiane Scrivener , shocked her colleagues by suggesting that the member states ' case may prove overwhelming or at least that the system as first proposed should be put back until 1995 . |
| 16 | He started to see that in his opinion more could be done for humanity by Churches than by political parties , even the best of political parties such as he took the Liberal Party to be ; or at least that the Churches engaged at a more profound level with the predicament of humanity . |
| 17 | One could say that the pressing question is how it is possible to live , rather than what teleology to adopt ; or at least that the latter does not sort the former out . |
| 18 | It seems that writing and translating is temporarily effective , or at least that the Beggar 's use for an introduction to the poem is of no further service , because no further meetings between them are recorded . |
| 19 | This would imply at least that the early fragment of language poses the problem of hierarchical analysis in a reasonably pure form . |
| 20 | There are usually shared objectives in the meeting — at least that the problem should be solved . |
| 21 | But the denouement of the Soviet military presence in Egypt proved at least that the concession of military facilities to the USSR was unlikely in itself to induce a dependent alignment on that power . |
| 22 | It was something at least that the route itself had now been agreed on . |
| 23 | Despite the safeguards in the Police and Crime Evidence Act 1984 in England , one can not complacently assume that all is well or at least that the service given by police surgeons could not be improved . |
| 24 | It , too , displaced a society whose individuals were healthier but less numerous — the archaeological and anthropological evidence suggests that hunters lead longer , healthier and happier lives than farmers , at least than the sort of farmers who live or die by the sweat of their brows . |
| 25 | He will head the party at least until a regular party congress confirms the new leadership structure ahead of East Germany 's first free elections next May . |
| 26 | Sidebar will be used to give the thing an OS/2 look-alike and feel — at least until a full screen PC-DOS application is run . |
| 27 | It obviously could not end , at least until a coherent new form of Catholicism had gelled in practice . |
| 28 | Friends found leave to attend an election easily obtained , while enemies of the powerful would find their services in great demand with their regiments , at least until a vital election had taken place . |
| 29 | Nor does the performance seem anything but studio bound , at least until a more involving Act 3 , as compared with any of the sets listed above , two made in the theatre , the other exhibiting the long experience of Furtwängler in the work . |
| 30 | The Bar requests that the Royal Commission on Criminal Justice consider the whole issue of the funding of legal aid defence work and urges the Lord Chancellor not to introduce standard fees for magistrates ' courts work at least until a report of the Royal Commission has been received and considered . |