Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] at the [adj -est] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The new chairman of the physics committee , Professor Michael Hart of Kings College , London , wants to see more representation of mainstream physics at the highest levels within the SERC — especially on the council itself .
2 In the event it was only those six states in which agitation for closer political and economic integration had been strongest in the 1940s , with political support at the highest level , which entered into the discussions that led to the establishment of the European Coal and Steel Community ( ECSC ) .
3 To produce highly trained people with scientific knowledge and technical expertise at the highest level , not just within the science base , but throughout the economy .
4 We have an Academic Advisory Group , chaired by Lord Lewis , which has given us access to professional expertise at the highest level .
5 The meeting concluded that " the well-being of children requires political action at the highest level " .
6 Those in Islay range from a very simple wall , which at one time perhaps had wood stakes on it , built to enclose a headland and had a narrow entrance at the steepest part , to a substantial hill fort like Borraichill Mhor which encloses a considerable area .
7 Those in Islay range from a very simple wall , which at one time perhaps had wood stakes on it , built to enclose a headland and had a narrow entrance at the steepest part , to a substantial hill fort like Borraichill Mhor which encloses a considerable area .
8 Rocky outcrop at the highest point of the grouse moors ; view over Wharfedale towards Burnsall and of Skyreholme , a tributary valley .
9 I should be happy to visit Southend-on-Sea travelling by British Rail at the earliest opportunity .
10 Latterly the USSR appeared to have reverted to its traditional support for Iraq , while calling for a negotiated settlement at the earliest opportunity .
11 If tax is owing and payment on the due date is impossible , the Inland Revenue will discuss payment over a period of time to meet the liability ; and any taxpayer who is in difficulty in paying his or her tax should contact the Inland Revenue at the earliest opportunity to discuss how the difficulty might be resolved .
12 All this criticism at the highest level .
13 The airmen and women 's families turned out in force to watch , and top billing at the biggest farewell bash in town went to those masters of precision flying , The Red Arrows .
14 At the end of the meeting , the head of the Icelandic delegation , Gudmundur Eriksson , said that he would recommend his government to leave the organization and resume commercial whaling at the earliest opportunity .
15 Because All Saints and St Barnabas has a broadly symmetrical plan and it is therefore logical to dispose dwellings to either side of a spinal corridor , the church has been converted in accordance with this principle at the lowest levels where the cross-section is widest ( Fig 47 ) .
16 The pair received a rapturous welcome at the latest Milan collections for continuing to portray the tough masculine image that is their trademark .
17 I telephoned him at home immediately and told him about the fatigue failure , adding my recommendation that he should order the examination of all UK registered Boeing 707/300 stabilisers for signs of similar failure at the earliest opportunity .
18 When ripe these pear-shaped fungi are filled with dust-like spores which pour out of the small central opening at the slightest movement .
19 In reality there is little Chris does not know , for the best of reasons — his constant personal participation at the toughest end of the game .
20 By the autumn of 1933 , he was deputising for Mosley as chief speaker at the largest rallies of the BUF , where the audiences numbered several thousand .
21 The lanky Moody rode his luck to score his second century at the highest level .
22 Peron was a political patron at the highest level , who offered his workers definite improvements in return for their support on which he depended .
23 Far up on the left , above the inn and the cottage row , two other figures moved , blue and white , not haymakers — Jean Bruce and young Donald , walking hand in hand amongst the bents of a neglected field at the furthest point of the McCullochs ' holding .
24 Him , with him : the worst man in the worst place at the worst time .
25 Sometimes , presumably in order to try to influence the climate , there was even a little skirmishing at the highest level , about the timing of various publications .
26 TREVOR FRANCIS spent the whole of his playing career at the highest level and is now making it clear he 's not going to drop those standards as a manager .
27 Kenneth Williams , the main prop of the show is a young man with a face which twists into grimaces of anguish and leers of terrible delight at the minutest provocation .
28 The LTA is operating in what is today a very professional tennis world , yet on all the LTA 's innumerable committees , there is hardly a single person who has had personal experience of playing top class international tennis at the highest level since the game went ‘ Open ’ in 1968 .
29 On external relations , the European Council welcomed " the results of the United National Conference on Environment and Development ( UNCED ) held in Rio de Janeiro from June 3 to June 14 , 1992 [ see p. 38947 ] , and in particular the acceptance by the international community at the highest level of the aim of sustainable development worldwide . "
30 Although there may be a great temptation to seek alternative employment at the earliest opportunity , you should weigh up considerations such as :
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