Example sentences of "[noun pl] at [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stands at nearest point to him . |
| 2 | For most people breakfast is a time to renew contact with the world , often through bleary eyes at best . |
| 3 | We have already seen that Hobbes and Gassendi diverged from Bacon 's belief that the scrutiny of natural histories would enable one to reach certainty about the causes of things , and thought that one could produce conjectures and hypotheses at best . |
| 4 | These are er , books which these , these are books which do not directly concern , therapeutic applications of psychoanalysis , and as a result , many psychoanalysts who have been very fervent in projecting a kind of medical image for psychoanalysis , have tended to regard them as diversions at best , and at worst as , rather er regrettable eccentricities on the part of Freud . |
| 5 | Non-believers will see them as misguided optimists at best and fools at worse . |
| 6 | Less successful companies at best " dabble " in management development , occasionally sampling " flavours of the month " or attempting " magic wand " techniques for management training ( acronymously labelled , for example , MIPS and PIPS ) . |
| 7 | Women can certainly be competitive as individuals , but are less so at the group level ; many of us who went to all-girls ' schools found the competitive team sports at worst a real trial and at best something of a joke , even though we were quite prepared to put ourselves out in an individual context . |
| 8 | Yet , apart from these and a couple of stagings of The Tempest , choreographers have tended to present Shakespeare only in one act form , at best condensing the great poetic dramas into intense and intimate character studies at worst , turning them into a slide show of cliched vignettes . |
| 9 | However , the key distinctions between quality-of-working-life techniques of the 1960s and 1970s , and the high-performance approach of the 1980s and 1990s , seems to include the following : The early quality-of-working-life techniques did not substantially increase worker control and have been criticized for making only cosmetic alterations to the experience of work , increasing discretion in superficial ways at best . |
| 10 | Solidarity with Southern nationalists is still a major Northern nationalist perception , despite the fact that they view their Southern compatriots at best with indifference and at worst as traitors who sold them out to the loyalists . |
| 11 | In Tonkin as well as in Cochinchina both sides at best ignored the other as well as the general terms of their March agreement . |
| 12 | However , such activities at best brought some credit to the NSV itself , with little rubbing off onto the main organization , the NSDAP . |
| 13 | The exact numbers involved are obscure , but Walpole-Bond 's account suggests a population of no more than five to 10 pairs at best , and breeding was not established as an annual occurrence . |
| 14 | Despite the fact that at least one in 10 couples — some researchers suggest one in six — have fertility problems , the new technology results in the birth of a child in only 30 per cent of cases at best ( often the rate is lower ) . |
| 15 | The tables show that these birds at best occupied only 25 per cent . |
| 16 | You lay yourself open to producing , instead of a series of ascending suspense moments , a series of descending ones at worst , or of switchbacking ones with readers losing interest with each less gripping situation . |
| 17 | ’ APPLE , NOVELL HELD MERGER TALKS AT HIGHEST LEVEL ’ — SAN JOSE MERCURY |
| 18 | In the UK , however , we are all subjects of the Crown rather than citizens , or ‘ customers ’ for government services at best , and records belong to the Crown ( in practice government departments ) rather than to the public . |
| 19 | The fears of bureaucrats and industrial workers are simpler still : hard-driving new bosses at best , at worst the sack . |