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

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1 Everybody was there to be academically acknowledged at the highest level they could and sport was just something that came as well .
2 They would sell it at the best price they could get for it .
3 On 12 March 1991 Hirst J. ordered that , unless persons claiming an interest in the cargo could show cause otherwise , the cargo should be discharged and sold by both parties at the best price they could reasonably obtain and the proceeds of sale paid into court .
4 A role for trade unionism which continued to confine its main purpose to the sale of labour at the best price it could get for it was bound to prompt unions first to seek and then to exploit a monopoly of it ; bound to make incongruent two prime objectives — full employment and a stable currency ; and bound to present Government with reasons of national interest or excuses of ideology for intervening .
5 Normally , the commission had to dispose of land at the best price it could obtain , but there was one important exception .
6 At the earliest stage it should be made to come alive for young people and teachers in the processes of education .
7 At the simplest level we may be in doubt , for example , whether to approach an injured bird for fear of exacerbating its plight , or be uncertain whether the bitch giving birth needs assistance .
8 At the simplest level we can ask whether we ‘ cover ’ the content .
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