Example sentences of "[v-ing] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Elegy ( E2 5c ) : gritstone slab climbing at its best . |
| 4 | His rock'n'roll fashion epitomized Eighties power dressing at its brashest . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Motor racing at its best from the mind bending speed of the hot rods and stock cars to the fun and crasherama of bangers . |
| 9 | This made it appear that he threw the ball when bowling at his fastest ; when he reduced his pace he was relatively innocuous . |
| 10 | Wages , for example , are rising at their slowest rate for 25 years . |
| 11 | Average earnings are now rising at their slowest rate since the 1960s . |
| 12 | Strictly speaking , therefore , impalement and the use of an escutcheon of pretence is marshalling at its simplest . |
| 13 | With England staring at their greatest humiliation for nearly 50 years , he sent on a defender and explained : ‘ He 's not had the best of times lately but I believe this is the time to support certain people . |
| 14 | This will depend on the wind strength , but as a general rule the hand movements should start about a third of the way into the turn when the board is travelling at its fastest . |
| 15 | BUSINESS failures are expected to rise by over a third this year according to figures produced by the credit insurer Trade Indemnity , and are now running at their highest rate since 1985 , writes Jason Nisse . |
| 16 | For here is trance dance grooving at its highest level , a silver drug for the senses that allows you to enter into another dimension of sex and sorcery . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | At 07.30 , the Allied artillery , which for the previous 65 minutes had been firing at its greatest intensity , lifted . |
| 19 | It is composed of a single almond-shaped form curling at its narrowest point into a loop or tail and is employed as a repeating motif in either allover or medallion-and-corner formats . |
| 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 . |
| 21 | For instance , when the selectors were working at their hardest at the English and British Match-Play Championships — Joanne was feeling and playing far below her best because of a species of salmonella food poisoning . |
| 22 | With Easy Boot , you can have up to fifteen highly optimised configurations that ensure your PC is working at its best in any given situation , and a lot less hassle . |
| 23 | After a hasty meal we assembled all hands , distributed torches and rummage equipment and set to with forced enthusiasm , as we knew from experience that often these hot suspect ships had been hammered unmercifully by a succession of rummage crews at every arrival , besides which we were not feeling at our best . |