Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [prep] least [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The Leader of the Opposition said the other day , talking about education : ’ We will continue with the scale of commitment at least at the level of 1979 . |
| 3 | It is tempting perhaps to think musicians were innocent of technology at least until the age of the LP and stereophonic sound . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Government must look to be fairer to London , with equalisation at least in the grants system — perhaps on the basis of incomes , or by taking the regional banding approach . |
| 6 | Company meetings can take a number of linguistic forms : the formal use of international ( or ‘ off-shore ’ ) English at the negotiating table , with informal exchanges in other languages ; meetings in the language of the country ( perhaps with interpretation at least of the whispered type ) or multi-lingual meetings where each participant contributes in his own language . |
| 7 | The success experienced among the eastern Angles with the conversion of Eorpwald may have been due in part at least to the influence of older patterns established by missionaries in the time of Raedwald , but nevertheless it testifies to Eadwine 's real influence in the East Anglian area at this time . |
| 8 | These appear to be associated in part at least with the state of the labour market and the demand for women 's labour ( Ermisch 1983 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . " |
| 10 | He will be in charge at least until the end of the season . |
| 11 | The last mill these waters powered was Awre Corn Mill , an old site in use at least since the time of the Domesday Survey , having reputedly belonged to Edward the Confessor . |
| 12 | As indicated in the first chapter , there has evolved during relatively recent times a " traditional " listing of Muftis , the tradition beginning essentially with Mustakimzade and reaching perhaps definitive expression in the widely-used the equally widely-used chronological history by Danismend , and , more recently , Altunsu 's In respect at least of the origins of the institution this tradition has triumphed over another of some antiquity , advanced by Katib Celebi and followed by Hezarfen and the western authors d'Ohsson and Hammer , which names Hizir Bey ( d. 863/1459 ) , the first kadi of Istanbul , as the first Seyhulislam and which differs in several other respects from the now-accepted account of the succession of fifteenth-century Muftis . |
| 13 | The attempt to minimise industrial conflict has been a goal of public policy in Britain at least since the last century when the Conciliation Act of 1896 was passed . |
| 14 | Now the tense of the main verb , in other words not the bit in the when clause or the as soon as clause or whatever , normally virtually it gives it away because if it 's future in the main the chances are extremely high that it 's going to be future in French at least in the time clause . |
| 15 | 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 . |