Example sentences of "[verb] at [pos pn] [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Morse had insisted on travelling by what he called the ‘ scenic ’ route — via Cirencester but , alas , the countryside was not appearing at its best : the golden days were gone , and the close-cropped fields where the sheep ever nibbled looked dank and uninviting under a sky-cover of grey cloud . |
| 2 | He very much admired the poetry of Ebenezer Elliott , the Corn Law Rhymer , that is , a poet who helped to lead the opposition to the laws which kept the price of bread artificially high , and said ‘ None of us have done better than he has at his best ’ . |
| 3 | With the volume of trading at its highest recorded level , the leading FT-SE 100 index of top British companies jumped 150 points at one stage before settling 136.2 points ahead at 2572.6 — almost exactly the level at which the stock market stood when Chancellor Norman Lamont began his Budget address one month ago . |
| 4 | All food needs to be stored and prepared carefully if it is to be enjoyed at its best . |
| 5 | It looks at its best if the stems are kept trimmed , which makes it more compact . |
| 6 | " Everything has to be done as quickly as possible ; the only time we spend extra hours in the garden is over the few weeks we are entering competitions , just to make sure it looks at its best , " says Barbara . |
| 7 | Every minister now looks at his biggest decisions in the light of how they will affect the general election . |
| 8 | The Pearl Investor Confidence Index rose by 1.2 p.c. last month — its largest rise since August last year — to stand at its highest level since December . |
| 9 | If employees are to work at their best they must : |
| 10 | Elegy ( E2 5c ) : gritstone slab climbing at its best . |
| 11 | She had decided darling Thomas would wish h* to appear at her best and had therefore forsaken dark colours today in favour of her new blue straw hat with the ruched brim , decorated with tasteful purple roses and osprey feathers . |
| 12 | Like those ghastly American mausoleums where the embalmed corpse is presented at its best , dressed and smiling , prior to burial . |
| 13 | each lower level package is selected at its latest approved version |
| 14 | His rock'n'roll fashion epitomized Eighties power dressing at its brashest . |
| 15 | Put at its lowest , a single-minded and unrelenting pursuit of a policy , however right , however important , may be counter-productive in that it may alienate the very people whom it is sought to convert . |
| 16 | Put at its baldest , Jackie was a young man on the make . |
| 17 | Put at its simplest , they were voting for the countryside . |
| 18 | Put at its simplest , it was jealous suspicion , for when she had looked through Barbs 's windows she had seen Memet 's straw hat sitting on the sill : he always put his hat on the window-sill . |
| 19 | When you write an essay what you typically do ( put at its simplest ) is gather material and then arrange it . |
| 20 | There have been very few with the gift of Dante or John Milton , who have written at their best when being most Christian . |
| 21 | The big woman got to her feet now and , looking at her eldest son , she said , ‘ I 'm goin' up to get into me things . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Heavy snow in January and February kept other possible buyers away , and by the time the crocuses and daffodils were decking the rest of the Thrush Green gardens , Tullivers was looking at its worst . |
| 24 | Everything was normal and the shift going smoothly until about 3 a.m. when the human body is at its lowest ebb ( according to the medical profession ) and we do n't feel at our best . |
| 25 | You can find out more about the sites to visit at your nearest Tourist Information Centre or English Heritage property . |
| 26 | The courtesies to be shown are seen at their best when Aurora dances with her Prince in the last act of The Sleeping Beauty . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | A maze of paths with unique wooden seats and bridges enables the weathered and moss-covered rocks to be seen at their best . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | For example , in Romeo and Juliet this aspect of his choreography is seen at its finest in the pas de trois fur Romeo , Mercutio and Benvolio before they enter the Capulet ball . |