Example sentences of "at the lowest [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Sergeant Bird followed him into the parkland at a leisurely pace , then watched from behind a tree as the fugitive made three attempts at the lowest portion of the wall .
2 In the city he is just another casual labourer working at the lowest level of urban employment .
3 But assuming Collor 's Brazil makes it into the ranks of the developed world , it will do so at the lowest level of eligibility , on a par with the East European countries .
4 In a nuclear world the sensible aim is a less fragile , more stable nuclear balance at the lowest level of armaments on all sides .
5 They finally come together at the lowest level of their relationship .
6 The company says this technological approach enables changes made anywhere in the process including development of documentation , design models and source code and at the lowest level of granularity , to be automatically reflected and maintained throughout the entire development process and all software deliverables .
7 This is part of a wider public policy in relation to health care , where Primary Health Care is being seen as the central component of the Health Care System and an accepted general principle that Health problems be dealt with at the lowest level of complexity , and acknowledges that a well-informed , well-motivated participating community is necessary for the achievement of health targets .
8 Relationships can now be investigated , at the lowest level of structural definition , by simply establishing whether boxes are remote , touching , interfering or inserted ( see Figure 6.6 ) .
9 These were that the maximum speed of flights was to be reduced from 835 kmph to 778 kmph and that the amount of time permitted at the lowest level of 75 metres was to be cut from 28 to 15 minutes , with the rest of the flight being made at no lower than 150 metres .
10 Thus priority is given to existing employees in the allocation of individuals to posts , and entry points to the system are at the lowest level of any particular hierarchy .
11 Without economic growth the demand for oil and gas is inevitably weak , leading to soft prices which are currently running at the lowest level for 20 years in real terms .
12 There may be a policy to appoint an internal candidate for the post so that the residual vacancy is filled at the lowest level by direct outside entry .
13 Black pupils need to achieve academically in order to enter the labour market even at the lowest level in spite of evidence that qualifications do not necessarily lead to jobs ( see Brennan and McGeevor , 1987 , for example ) .
14 At the lowest level in the TNC hierarchy , the operatives , there is clearly a reputational element at work , in so far as working for a company that has an international name appears to mean something positive for most people .
15 Half the money is for Channel Tunnel work , leaving spending on existing lines at the lowest level in years .
16 And at the lowest level in the EC , they are also fully consistent with the prospects for recovery this year . ’
17 She seemed to be staring , transfixedly , at the lowest part of the laboratory complex , at a bright light that had flickered on .
18 The new picture is then assessed and another remedy given starting at the lowest degrees of dynamization ( LM 1 ) regardless of what potency level the previous remedy had reached .
19 At the lowest levels of the government machinery ( the village clerk , the forest policeman , and the agricultural extension agent ) , there are additional contradictions .
20 As Westergaard and Resler say ( 1975 , p. 101 ) , ‘ sex inequality in pay reinforces class inequality : it strikes hardest at the lowest levels of the occupational hierarchy ’ .
21 Ozone levels over much of North America and Europe were at the lowest levels on record in February , at between 9 and 20 per cent below normal , following a winter of persistently depleted levels .
22 If all goes according to plan , the £60 million investment will produce around 300,000 tonnes per year of ammonia at the lowest costs in Western Europe .
23 Day three was spent at the lowest place on earth — 1400 ft below sea level — the Dead Sea and , after visiting the ancient palace of Herod the Great at Masada , it was time for the obligatory float in the Dead Sea .
24 Hence , in this case there is a lower measured exothermicity from a structure which is already partially disordered at the lowest temperature from which ΔH is measured .
25 Critics of the government have argued that , although the need for incentives throughout the economy has been stressed , at the lowest end of the income scale there is greater emphasis on the need for workers ‘ to price themselves into employment ’ by accepting less than the ‘ going rate ’ of pay increases .
26 Eventually we were all reunited on a spur at the lowest end of the plateau .
27 A second , more troublesome fraction exists at the lowest end of the working class .
28 Women had been at the lowest end of Paul 's spectrum of the human race .
29 However , the introduction of the new lower 20% tax band on the first 2,000 of taxable income in March 1992 should help improve the position of some 4 million people who are thought to be at the lowest end of the income scale .
30 Gian Galeazzo Visconti was responsible for the construction of a set of canals — here at the lowest point of the Lombardy Plain — and initiated the building of one of the wonders of Italy , the Duomo .
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