Example sentences of "at the [adj -est] [noun sg] of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who persisted discovered the drives ' disconcerting tendency to implode or deliquesce at the merest touch of a screwdriver . |
| 2 | 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 . " |
| 3 | ‘ We have now proved that we can match anyone at the highest level of the sport . |
| 4 | After knowing only life at the highest level of the game , McGrain is full of admiration for the players Arbroath have assembled from Tayside , Edinburgh and Glasgow who combine playing , training and travelling long distances with everyday jobs . |
| 5 | When a colleague had some treatment , a tape was played and he was made to look up at the highest point of the ceiling . |
| 6 | On contemporary art sales undoubtedly enduring a difficult period at present he noted that even at the highest point of the market , revenue had not amounted to more than about 20% of the house 's total sales . |
| 7 | The wall can be found behind the Beran Filling Station , which lies at the highest point of the Bangor on Llanberis road ( B4547 ) , about 200 metres from the Deiniolen turn-off . |
| 8 | At the highest point of the rising damp there will be an ugly tide-mark . |
| 9 | He was standing on the exposed rocks at the highest point of the headland ; the ground fell away steeply from here , mostly bare rock and scrub , with just a narrow shelf of land that was almost a beach down at the water 's edge . |
| 10 | Rocky outcrop at the highest point of the grouse moors ; view over Wharfedale towards Burnsall and of Skyreholme , a tributary valley . |
| 11 | It maybe that the pipework does not slope — gently away from the vent pipe which can cause air to collect at the highest point of the pipe . |
| 12 | A solar heating system consists of three main components : the solar panel , a feed-and-expansion cistern ( which must be positioned at the highest point of the system ) and the solar cylinder . |
| 13 | A section through Draycott cave is shown in Fig. 4.2 , and the main concentration of amphibian bones occurs at the deepest part of the entrance chamber of the cave where it seems to be permanently wet . |
| 14 | It is , therefore , acting at the deepest level of the individual , correcting energy imbalances at the very core of our beings . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She seemed to be staring , transfixedly , at the lowest part of the laboratory complex , at a bright light that had flickered on . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Eventually we were all reunited on a spur at the lowest end of the plateau . |
| 19 | A second , more troublesome fraction exists at the lowest end of the working class . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | They are also fitted at the lowest point of a central heating system ( and on downloops and , perhaps , next to the boiler ) and , usually , just before a garden tap . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | No valves should be fitted to obstruct the cold feed pipe to or the open vent pipe from the boiler — apart from a draincock at the lowest point of the system . |
| 24 | It was unfortunate that she would meet the traveller at the darkest point of the path . |
| 25 | It is remarkable that the river Alde immediately south of Aldeburgh is separated from the sea by only about 50 m of shingle at the narrowest part of the spit , which causes a 17 km ( 11 miles ) deflection of the river . |
| 26 | The Dannewerk at the narrowest point of the isthmus of Schleswig , reached from sea to sea , and remained as a strategic position in wars between Danes and Germans until as late as the nineteenth century . |
| 27 | Now , with the tide low , the causeway connecting the islet with Moila 's mainland was high and dry , running across at the narrowest point of the channel . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | and all this at the worst point of the war . |
| 30 | Her caravan was at the worst end of the site , surrounded by a sea of mud whenever it rained , and close to the rubbish dump . |