Example sentences of "[prep] best [art] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is at best a standstill and does not measure up to the problems of dereliction and rising unemployment . |
| 2 | Mr. Pannick , for the Secretary of State , reminds us that a prisoner serving a sentence of life imprisonment has no right to be released on licence ; he has at best a hope that the Secretary of State will release him in the exercise of his discretion under section 61(1) of the Criminal Justice Act 1967 . |
| 3 | This is so , because economics is at best a technique that is both partial and complementary to other disciplines . |
| 4 | It emerges from the above discussion that man-machine allocation of function is at best an oversimplification and it may lead to the neglect of some key features of human performance . |
| 5 | The janissaries , who were once the elite corps of the sultan 's army , had degenerated by the end of the eighteenth century into an unruly and lawless rabble , who were at best an embarrassment and at worst a threat to their rulers . |