Example sentences of "not least " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ideally the classes support the work done on the production project and it is particularly valuable if there is strong liaison between voice and movement tutors with the director of a project — not least in helping students see how the instructional classes connect with their own performances . |
| 2 | KINSEY was one of the successes of the year , not least for its semi-criminal claim-game milieu but also for its imaginative shooting of day and night time in the city . |
| 3 | Dispossession can , however , induce a psychological reaction , not least because the mind is trying desperately to make sense of what 's happening . |
| 4 | The silver birch is so elegantly beautiful , from spring 's pale green bud-burst until the final golden accolade of autumn , that it plays a part in all the seasons , not least because it is especially favoured by long-tailed tits as a food source in winter . |
| 5 | For most it 's a temporary phase , caused by a variety of factors — not least tiredness . |
| 6 | These were now more eagerly undertaken , and soon completed ; thanks not least to the good offices of his very able assistant , Kelley Lynch , and his unofficial archivist , Robert Bower . |
| 7 | In such comments we find ourselves in the precise atmosphere of Rudolf Otto 's ‘ numinous ’ , the ‘ mysterium tremendum et fascinans ’ — the mystery that creates wonderment as well as terror — which surely accounts at least in part for the high level of religious feeling in Canadian folklore and literature ; not least in Leonard 's expression of it . |
| 8 | They offer a microcosm of his mental world in their range : Zen Buddhism , poetry , English and French literature , mysticism and spirituality ( not least that of Simone Weil ) , music , a few general books . |
| 9 | Nathan Cohen himself was the eldest son of Lyon Cohen , one of the really influential men of early Canadian consolidation over five decades , not least among his own Jewish people . |
| 10 | Following her arrival , she obtained a temporary job as a nurse in the Hospital of Hope , and this situation was destined to be of great use , not least to her future husband . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | We know very little of these early years , beyond that it was a family of privilege , untouched by the economic scourge that surrounded it , though Nathan Cohen must frequently have feared it might touch them , too — not least when he was blessed with a much hoped-for son , whom he named Leonard Norman . |
| 13 | This was now cruelly exacerbated ; for she became even more dependent on them , not least financially . |
| 14 | We need have no reservation that such memories , not least the sounds , entered deeply into the young boy 's consciousness , as his mother gave vent to her distress in English and her native Yiddish , as well as symbolically rending her clothes and chanting the dirges . |
| 15 | All this made his instruction in the scriptures and the explanation attached to them more dramatic ; not least his studies in the sacred language which he was expected to acquire . |
| 16 | When needed , he displays a fine and intimate grasp of the Hebrew scriptures , and its rhythms and images ( not least its parallelism — a form of free verse — the versets of the Bible ) suffuses his work . |
| 17 | Already a boy given to solitariness and a certain economy of words , he found in poetic diction ( thanks , not least to Wordsworth ) the most congenial vehicle for comprehension and self-expression . |
| 18 | For the opening years of the sixth decade ‘ R&B was King ’ — thanks , not least , to the popularity it had enjoyed among the troops . |
| 19 | This soon gave rise to such names as Hank Ballard And The Midnighters , Georgie Gibbs , The Clovers , Ruth Brown , Joe Hill and , not least , Leonard 's idol of many years , Ray Charles . |
| 20 | Brought up , as Leonard was , to admire the Romantics and their charming , reliable , amiable world-view , their delight in nature , not least man 's own nature which had an organic relationship with the world by which sensibility and feeling — frequently emphasised as a pleasure-principle , paved the way for his being catapulted into the ‘ surreal ’ world of the Spanish writer . |
| 21 | It prospered and expanded under the principalship of Sir William Dawson ; by the time he had completed 38 years as Principal ( 1855–1893 ) the student body had risen from 100 to over 1000 , and Dawson had had the satisfaction of seeing great strides made in both the building programme and the various curricula — not least in his own scientific fields . |
| 22 | Behind the indecision lay a youth torn in one direction by the family business , not least perhaps his father 's shadow hanging over him ; and the preferences of his mind and ever prolific imagination in the other . |
| 23 | ( The ‘ on decay ’ aspect is significant , encapsulating a cynical view of life , not least in the shattered security resulting from his father 's death . ) |
| 24 | Nevertheless , Leonard was to learn much from the Pennsylvanian , who helped to inspire his interest in Eastern thought , not least through his translations of the Chinese poet Li Po . |
| 25 | He plunged himself into all this and more , avidly reading everything that came his way ; especially poetry , and not least Spanish , Chinese and Japanese poets in translation , but chiefly that of Federico Garçia Lorca and W.B. Yeats , of whom he mused , ‘ I loved Yeats ; his connections ( such an important code-word with Leonard ! ) his rhythms . ’ |
| 26 | Would it not have been too painful , not least having to watch another youngster take his first steps into the fatherless state ? |
| 27 | Things were stirring , all right , at his roots not least . |
| 28 | One year older than Leonard , he went through the varying experiences of adolescence with him , sharing not least Leonard 's musical interest ( Morton played both the banjo and the trombone ) , as well as a variety of pastimes and a healthy interest in the fairer sex . |
| 29 | Morton saw that Leonard and Mrs Cohen were very close , and nothing emphasised this more than her willingness to take them and their friends out for meals , especially to a favourite Greek restaurant where she would be the life of the party , not least in singing , and encouraged by good wine which the restaurateur would ply them with in order to get the mood of the evening going . |
| 30 | But perhaps the biggest thing in popular music took place in 1948 when the LP was introduced ; an innovation of immense importance for the industry and public alike , and not least for Leonard who set about acquiring an enviable collection . |