Example sentences of "there be the slightest " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor , from the beginning of the indiscriminate sinking of British merchant ships by U-boats , could there be the slightest doubt among seamen who the enemy was ; but adjustment was difficult , and bread and butter questions such as pay and conditions of work were aggravated and complicated by wartime inflation , by manpower shortages and by excessive profits made by shipowners who grew even richer and more demanding out of the sweat and blood of their merchant crews . |
| 2 | There 's no question that the high heels and blusher go on if there 's the slightest chance that they 'll do any good . |
| 3 | And call me at once if there 's the slightest change in the weather . ’ |
| 4 | You are n't going anywhere where there 's the slightest chance that you could cause more trouble . |
| 5 | Other members of her family are also asked the same questions , and if there is the slightest discrepancy it can be used as proof that she is not the person she claims to be . |
| 6 | ‘ Because the son of a bitch wo n't let up while he thinks there is the slightest chance of getting back his quarter of a million , ’ Hugo said . |
| 7 | Tip : If , one hour after feeding , there is the slightest trace of nitrite , your filtration is inadequate or you 're feeding too much . |
| 8 | since I am one of those people who do something the wrong way round , if there is the slightest opportunity , I also inserted the needle incorrectly the first time only spotting my mistake when I read on and found that I could not follow the next instruction if my needle was at the back of the work . |
| 9 | Apart from such Helplines , David Wilson also offered to provide advice on situations CE Staff may come across involving adults in direct touch with children and young people where there is the slightest concern about a specific group or an individual in a group with whom staff work . |
| 10 | The only fact of a similar kind of which I am aware , is the constant asserted difference — between the wolf-like Fox of East & West Falkland Islds. — If there is the slightest foundations for these remarks the zoology of Archipelagos — will be well worth examining ; for such facts [ would — ( inserted ) ] undermine the stability of species . ’ |
| 11 | Not that there was the slightest danger of Bob getting into that these days , thank you very much . |
| 12 | It would have been impossible to get her to eat if there was the slightest bit of tension in her . |
| 13 | There was the slightest suspicion of something behind her , up in the cockpit : a whisper of movement — not even that : a sort of parenthesis in the silence where a whisper would have been if anything had made one . |
| 14 | Any one of them would shove an ice-pick in her back , sunny side up , if there was the slightest chance of her saying a word . |
| 15 | We had no doubt that if there was the slightest suggestion that the statements differed materially from the evidence given by the witnesses the learned trial judge would have called for these statements and examined them himself and if necessary would have made them available to the defence . |
| 16 | Lydia was not exactly terrified , but she was sitting very , very still so that if there was the slightest noise she could be quite certain that it was not she who had caused it . |
| 17 | There was the slightest pause . |
| 18 | Cleo realised she was frightened , but if there was the slightest possibility she could catch sight of Inky 's shade , she was prepared to risk whatever might happen over the next few hours . |
| 19 | If there was the slightest breeze from any direction the smoke would spread itself evenly between chimney and room in more or less equal proportions , which was why the once white walls had the appearance of very old ivory and the mounted fox heads , hunting trophies which hung on the walls , had a fine coating of brown dust , and their yellow eyes a slightly inebriated , glazed expression . |
| 20 | ‘ Nah — even if there was the slightest chance he 'd fall for me , it would n't work . |
| 21 | If there was the slightest risk of what one revealed in the process becoming known to others … . |
| 22 | There was the slightest pause in Theodora 's breathing . |
| 23 | There was the slightest flicker of light deep within his sapphire eyes , but when he spoke , his voice was as chill as hers . |
| 24 | Yet if there was the slightest chance of the offer being genuine , how he would leap at it ! |