Example sentences of "[verb] at their best " in BNC.

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1 If employees are to work at their best they must :
2 There have been very few with the gift of Dante or John Milton , who have written at their best when being most Christian .
3 A woman with more than five hundred cacti has worked out a solution to the prickly problem of how to keep the plants looking at their best .
4 The courtesies to be shown are seen at their best when Aurora dances with her Prince in the last act of The Sleeping Beauty .
5 Bateman 's fine turn of speed and immaculate crosses were seen at their best in Palace 's drive to promotion from the newly-formed Football League Division Three .
6 A maze of paths with unique wooden seats and bridges enables the weathered and moss-covered rocks to be seen at their best .
7 She argues that young children 's cognitive and linguistic abilities can be seen at their best in situations involving intentions , motives , or purposes — situations which make human sense .
8 Our data also suggest that the team model of professional/paraprofessional staff deployment has high potential for maximizing the contribution of available personnel to the helping process and , if paraprofessional social service workers are to function at their best level , not only do they require appropriate training but professional workers also need to be trained to work with them .
9 Flowers will look at their best if bulbs are placed close together in the bowl , but they must not touch each other .
10 We 've got 15 players who must perform at their best if we 're to win .
11 Social workers are committed to promoting the well-being of individuals , families , groups , and communities and are expected to identify , develop and mobilize available resources to meet people 's needs and help them function at their best possible level .
12 When these tribunals operate at their best , they offer a consumer orientation sadly absent from other areas of adjudication .
13 They can help a crew lose and they can help them go at their best .
14 Stuart Barnes , who captained England B superbly , warned : ‘ Their pack is strong , their scrum solid and England must play at their best to stop these guys pulling off a shock . ’
15 A very fine plant , the blackthorn , good for almost anything that ailed a man 's insides , providing bud and flower and bitter black fruit were all taken at their best .
16 At this level you need people like Mick playing at their best — and he has known times when that has unfortunately not been the case .
17 Soft acid water in a well-planted aquarium with strong natural front lighting is needed to allow these minute beauties to display at their best .
18 If England perform at their best , the likeliest outcome is a 2-0 victory , with wins at Madras and Bombay .
19 They welcome the new day and tend to feel at their best at about noon or earlier .
20 Eastern Creek was n't scorching hot and yet Kenny Roberts revealed the Dunlops had been working at their best in the blazing heat of qualifying .
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