Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] least [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The likelihood that , after all the fanfare and ultimatums , it is not going to happen , or at least not for the time being , is another boost for the ‘ rebel ’ general in his lonely defiance of Lebanon 's Muslims — indeed , a good many of its Christians , too — much of the Arab world , and international communities . |
| 2 | Whereas the West Mainland never goes really up at the end of the sentence or at least not to the same extent . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , if in our experiments the effects of indomethacin were mediated by an increased production of leukotrienes , one would have expected that indomethacin reversed the beneficial effect of the linoleic diet but not that of the eicosapentaenoic acid diet , or at least not to the same extent , since the lipoxygenase products derived from eicosapentaenoic acid are weaker proinflammatory mediators than products derived from arachidonic acid metabolism . |
| 4 | It is quite possible , he wrote , that it will lead nowhere , even when one has begun at the right time in the right spirit , or at least not at the wrong time , in the wrong spirit , with the wrong plans and having made the wrong preparations , with the wrong tools and the wrong principles , on the wrong surface and with the wrong conception . |
| 5 | The following chapters in this book will offer the reader a great deal in the way of possible solutions to very specific issues in the management of schools — this one will not — or at least not in the same focused way . |
| 6 | Note that we are not here trying to derive models for designing — or at least not in the first instance . |
| 7 | She did n't have a clue how to relate to men — or at least not in the way her peers , someone like Mandy , would . |
| 8 | It was wonderful to roll ; that first second push off , sluggish with the anticipation of falling , that moment of tumbling when all was forgotten but frenetic strips of blue light and blades of green in our skin and clothes , and that next to last stretch when we knew we 'd roll forever ( or at least well into the shoulder of the road ) , and that final jolt and halt , nearly violent , as the bottom was reached . |
| 9 | I also suggested that they off Ollie his own warm secure bed downstairs , or at least out of the bedroom , to avoid giving him the ultimate rank-defining liberty of sleeping with the real top dogs . |
| 10 | The regime of the workhouse was deliberately deterrent , and at least up to the 1890s married couples would be forced to live apart within it . |
| 11 | In the mouse egg and at least up to the 16-cell stage all the cells seem equivalent with no fixed fate . |
| 12 | To have won the best single play award was a major coup , due not just to the craft of the makers but at least partly to the strength of the story of the Trawsfynydd shepherd bard who became a reluctant soldier and died in battle before knowing he had achieved his life 's ambition of winning the National Eisteddfod chair at the Birkenhead festival in 1917 . |