Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] or [prep] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be almost certain to give the strongest party not a majority of seats , but only a plurality , thus rendering it incapable of governing without the support or at least the consent of one other party . |
| 2 | In all the major states of Europe it was still made not even by the government as a whole but by a small group within it — the chief minister and foreign minister , supplemented according to circumstances and personalities by those for war , colonies or other concerned departments — with the support or at least the acquiescence of the monarch . |
| 3 | ( fl. 1260–1278 ) , cartographic patron , is known for certain only as the author or at least the patron of the late thirteenth-century world map preserved in Hereford Cathedral . |
| 4 | All eighteenth-century governments existed , in the last analysis , by the consent or at least the acquiescence of the governed . |
| 5 | I set her the first day to clean the floors starting at the top and expecting her to reach the bottom at the end of the day or at least the last floor , but Ellen she had not managed more than two rooms in eight hours and those not well done . |
| 6 | Indeed , though the death of a single organism may not seem to be very significant scientifically , it has been well argued by George Dangerfield that this one event did , in effect , mark the end or at least the beginning of the end , of that remarkable period of human history dominated by " Liberal England " . |