Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] least [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That means Mr Maxwell will remain at the helm of the club at least for the short term . |
| 2 | Although the king from time to time forbade ‘ puture ’ — the contributions in money and in kind exacted by the foresters — the levying of puture seems to have become a general practice at least by the fourteenth century . |
| 3 | The only ray of hope which the BDDA perceived in the report was Dr Eichholz 's call for " a close study of all methods of communication including phonetics linguistics , fingerspelling , finger-reading and gesture " , coupled with a recommendation that " fingerspelling ( the spelling and the reading of it ) should be taught in schools at least in the final period of school life . " |
| 4 | In some districts at least in the 1760s and 1770s , jenny spinners could earn as much as many weavers . |
| 5 | ‘ The plates at least for the first four courses are washed as they come out of the dining room . ’ |
| 6 | A completely contrasting interpretation of history is represented by MacFarlane 's ( 1978 ) work on the origins of English individualism , where he argues that the structure of kinship which prioritizes the nuclear family and de-emphasizes other kin has been characteristic of England at least since the thirteenth century . |
| 7 | Pragmatism claims to risk error at least about the right issue . |
| 8 | However , the scientists say they believed the layer would continue to thin every winter at least for the next eight years , after which a ban on use of certain gases will start to have a beneficial effect . |
| 9 | This radical treatment ( radical at least in the UK — it has distinct echoes of the accounting used in the old centrally-planned economies of Eastern Europe ) is a result of grafting on depreciation accounting ( and including the depreciation in prices ) to a cash accounting system . |
| 10 | Indeed , surprisingly enough , Mrs Thatcher 's reputation , in the doldrums at home at least to the end of 1981 , began to grow in foreign affairs as she became more self-assured . |
| 11 | This course would enable 5 Corps to be tactically disposed in the light of new policy , or ( b ) a proportion at least of the numbers should be returned to Italy and concentrated under the same arrangements that are being made for surrendered personnel of Army Group SW . |
| 12 | ‘ Reinforcement of the behaviours related to such needs cements the associations at least for a time . |
| 13 | It seems certain that this took place at least before the divergence with chimpanzee , and since multiple KOX2-hybridising bands are also present in other apes and monkeys , the duplication event may have been prior to the branch points of most simian primates . |
| 14 | A reserve of justice remained with the King , and so those who could not get relief in the King 's ordinary courts might , with some hope of success , petition the King and his Council for redress , if not as a matter of right at least as a favour . |
| 15 | Celtic are in no hurry to sell , and if they continue the form they showed in the 3-0 victory over Hibernian at Easter Road they will be quite happy not to have any calls from potential buyers at least until the end of the season . |
| 16 | Work on the upper pond is progressing , and soon it should be a think of beauty and joy at least for the foreseeable future , if not forever . |
| 17 | Because of its foundation-plus-option course structure , it is difficult to place the Open University in the diagram , but it may tend towards the academic and general at least at the undergraduate level . |
| 18 | This dual emphasis on the reader and on analysis of texts in units larger than a sentence seems to offer the beginnings at least of a new approach to text research , one which moves beyond a correlational approach to readability and starts instead to identify causal relationships between aspects of texts and difficulties in comprehension . |
| 19 | He will be in charge at least until the end of the season . |
| 20 | I agree with all the right hon. and hon. Members who said — I think that almost all who have spoken so far made this point — that it is very important to give Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland the prospect of joining the Community at least by the end of the decade , and to give them every possible assistance in meeting the economic and political conditions for membership as soon as possible . |
| 21 | This means that 69 per cent are not susceptible to medical intervention at least for the present . |
| 22 | With DNAaseI ( Fig. 2 ) , one observes a better protection of the hinge region between the two proteins ( phosphodiester bonds at -46.5 on the upper strand and at -49.5 on the template strand are almost insensitive to DNAaseI attack ) , and a more extended footprint in the upstream part of the CRP site at least on the upper strand , with the protection of phosphates at -81.5 , -82.5 and the appearance of two hypersensitive bands at -84.5 and -85.5 ( Fig. 2a , lane 2 ) . |
| 23 | We have enough racing in this country and I believe in reserving one day at least for the Lord . |
| 24 | Once at the station , the suspect meets the ‘ custody officer ’ , a person at least of the rank of sergeant and somebody who is unconnected with the case . |
| 25 | The version Cranko first appears in 1850 , but the two versions competed with each other at least until the end of the decade . |
| 26 | She had been so pleased when Dr. Briant had suggested she lunch with him in the medical staff dining room , aching as she was to get away for a while at least from the uncomfortable atmosphere of the Maternity Ward . |
| 27 | An exception lies in those children in whom obsessive , aggressive or bizarre sexual activity shows evidence at least of a conscious knowledge of the import of the activity itself . |
| 28 | SHIPPING giant ACL today pledged to stick with Liverpool at least for the next four years after a new contract was hammered out between the Swedish-owned company and Mersey Docks and Harbour Company . |
| 29 | Herr Nordern insisted that he should drive Erika and Omi at least to the S-Bahn station and stood with them until the train came , then , shaking his head , he handed Omi into a carriage . |
| 30 | Ceolred was remembered in some quarters at least as a profligate , but Wilfridian circles seem to have believed that Wilfrid could have worked well with him ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 64 ) . |