Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [noun] at the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The modern veterinary surgeon does not see nearly as many cases of distemper as we used to , simply because most people immunize their puppies at the earliest possible moment . |
| 2 | It moved to the then co-ordinator of security and intelligence in the Cabinet Office , Sir Antony Duff , who was given the right of direct access to Mrs Thatcher and encouraged to override the JIC 's supporting machinery and voice his concerns at the highest level when a potential emergency was sensed . |
| 3 | We hope that the European Court will make its ruling at the earliest possible moment so that the House of Lords can give a judgment . |
| 4 | Agnew knows that he has to prove to manager Kenny Dalglish not only that he can make a comeback but also that he can do his stuff at the highest level . |
| 5 | Writing later , in 1937 , J. B. Priestley 's main concern was to stress the Englishness of Chaplin ( though he did concede that the Chaplin symbol was half-French in inspiration ) and he talked of him as being ‘ the greatest humourist since Dickens ’ and of belonging above all to London 's East End and to ‘ the swarms of bright-eyed urchins who are thumbing their noses at the nearest policemen ’ . |
| 6 | For an officer in Northern Nigeria to complain that his emir refused to take his advice was to put his career at the gravest possible risk ; he could expect in due course to be moved to ‘ easier work ’ — in other words , to administrative oblivion . |
| 7 | Try your luck at the fairest , squarest state lottery of them all ! |
| 8 | She gave him hell at the slightest opportunity . |
| 9 | You 're just not going to be able to maintain your rugby at the highest standard otherwise . |
| 10 | I 'm no expert , but what worries me is that , when you 're dealing with madmen , they increase their demands at the slightest sign of weakness . ’ |
| 11 | ( And the western Greeks tended to make their dedications at the nearest of the Greek sanctuaries of the mainland , Olympia , rather than creating or patronizing a big cult centre of their own , ) Fifth-century Italy and Sicily did produce historians , like Hippys of Rhegion , or Antiochus and Philistus of Syracuse , the ‘ Sicilian Herodotus and the Sicilian Thucydides ’ ; even Dionysius I , tyrant of Syracuse from the late fifth century to 367 , wrote history as well as the tragedies and comedies for which he was , as we shall see , more famous . |
| 12 | Jackson , narrowly beaten by McCoy in the Indoor Championships after coming a poor seventh in the Olympics , is determined to prove his worth at the highest level . |
| 13 | Jackson , narrowly beaten by McCoy in the Indoor Championships after coming a poor seventh in the Olympics , is determined to prove his worth at the highest level . |