Example sentences of "least in [det] " in BNC.

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1 The professor shall reside within the University ( i.e. within twenty-five miles of Carfax , the central point of Oxford ) during six months at least in each academical year , between the first day of October and the ensuing first day of August , and in particular during not less than six weeks of each term .
2 The professor shall reside within the University ( i.e. within twenty-five miles of Carfax , the central point of Oxford ) during six months at least in each academical year , between the first day of October and the ensuing first day of August .
3 ‘ Origins of the Present Crisis ’ , published in New Left Review in 1964 , and ‘ Components of the National Culture ’ , four years later , were texts of their times that excited a generation which , at least in many of the social sciences and humanities , now commands the heights of the academic system even if their radicalism has been dulled by more recent discontents .
4 Whether it is true or not that good teachers are born , not made , they accurately perceived that bad teachers , at least in many cases , are made , not born .
5 Our surmise is plainly correct , at least in many cases .
6 The acquisition of wrappers by him was , at least in many cases , of direct benefit to the Nestle Co. , and required expenditure by the acquirer which he might not otherwise have incurred .
7 For just about every utterance has this context-dependency , due in no small part ( at least in many languages ) to tense .
8 The protons separate and each passes through an analyser which can determine its spin along one of three directions ( not necessarily mutually perpendicular ) which we label unc If the spin is " up " in the direction unc we label the result unc if it is " down " we label the result unc The measurements on the spin components of A and B are either made simultaneously or at least in such a way that no influence moving with the velocity of light can pass from one measurement to the other .
9 It may be , then , that the best hope for a modernising , thinking and participatory Labour Party for the later 1990s lies in the election as deputy leader of the man the apparatchiks would like least in that position — John Prescott .
10 It was a syndrome I had observed in other service marriages , not least in that of my own parents , and I have sometimes thought what a good subject it might make for a novel or play .
11 Common sense requires one to recognize that the most significant things were what was being said for the first time , at least in that form , in modern Catholic history and with such authority .
12 The decision is however profoundly unsatisfactory , not least in that two , if not three , of the members of the court attached weight to the fact that the railway company as a common carrier had sold the pregnant mother one ticket and not two — a conclusion which , if valid today , would carry the consequence that a child under three who can travel without a ticket on British Railways would have no remedy against British Railways if injured by the negligence of the British Rail employees .
13 But there was someone at least in that dreadful place who had a thought for others besides himself .
14 Indeed , the situation might actually be worse than the classical neurosis because at least in that case the chief symptoms of the disorder , for instance , neurotic anxiety , present themselves as definite psychopathic factors , whereas in an externalized , acted-out neurosis the symptoms may be reality factors that arise because of maladaptive behaviour which may mask its irrational , compulsive nature .
15 He said , ‘ At least in that respect you 're not like your brother .
16 The reason for including R in the picture is that , at least in all existing organisms , successful recombination requires the presence of enzymes , which in turn must be coded for by genes ; it is such a gene that is symbolized by R. The symbol r in Figure 5 represents a gene which is ineffective in bringing about recombination .
17 But the notions are very similar , at least in all that matters to our concerns .
18 Therefore , polygamists are not , at least in all cases , bad men . ’
19 Working day at least in all that time I had entered or come out from that building and its reality had gone for me .
20 But whereas in M Butterfly the theatrical flash and illusion is entirely implicated in the theme of the representation and misrecognition of one culture by another , in The Royal Hunt of the Sun , at least in this revival , it has no such purpose .
21 156 all out gave West Indies victory by an innings and 64 runs , but at least in this instance England were not blasted out .
22 Even Party reports had to accept that the speech , at least in this point , had ‘ not found everywhere the response it deserved ’ .
23 This man Gennaro obviously has a lot of influence even among the less desirable characters in this city , or at least in this part of it .
24 No mechanical indicator can tell you the right time to strike , at least in this situation , but your sense of touch can , once you have enough experience to know what you are feeling for .
25 There is good reason to believe , therefore , that this one sample is probably representative for the species , at least in this area .
26 About half the remainder had firm reasons for preferring cash to credit at least in this instance — because it was cheaper , or because it would avoid a chain of later bills , for example .
27 Nowadays such materials exist in a great many chemical varieties and their trade names are legion though ‘ Polythene ’ and ‘ Nylon ‘ , together with ‘ P.V.C. ’ ( polyvinyl chloride ) are probably still the most popular and the best known , at least in this country .
28 Yet he knew , at least in this he was n't alone : the feeling , if it did n't pervade the camp , certainly pervaded his section .
29 At least in this case I am quite sure it would apply .
30 The case is one more illustration of the extreme technicality of the law relating to the sentencing of juveniles , and the need to simplify the provisions governing the relationship between two forms of detention which are likely at least in this type of case to be indistinguishable from each other in their implementation .
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