Example sentences of "[verb] [been] at [pos pn] [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only that but Bates , in a period when the game in Britain has been at its lowest ebb , has won 16 of his 27 singles , 10 out of 17 in live rubbers , and 6 of his 11 doubles . |
| 2 | Often the emphasis on shared values has been at its greatest in time of war or other national crisis . |
| 3 | Eubank has been at his best when right up against it and facing defeat , especially in the battle with Nigel Benn that first gave him the world middleweight title and then when he climbed off the floor in the second , tragic contest with Michael Watson . |
| 4 | They might not have been at their best on Saturday , but until the outstanding Ruel Fox was injured they played some impressive football . |
| 5 | Defenders of the evacuees pointed out that the exercise had taken place at the end of a particularly hot summer , in which head lice would have thrived , that parents had not been properly informed of how long their children would be evacuated for ( and hence despatched them in one day 's clothing ) , or that the first day of evacuation ( 1 September ) was a Friday — the day on which working-class financial resources would have been at their lowest , preventing parents buying extra garments for their children . |
| 6 | ( Miletus , which had led the original 490s revolt , is said by Herodotus to have been at her greatest prosperity then . ) |
| 7 | It seems to have been at its worst among the women , according to the weekly out-of-work register , in 1934–6 , when 10–15 per cent of the membership was regularly signing on . |
| 8 | She had been at her worst between Spanish Fork and Dead Rat , when Elder Seth and the voices of the dead were arguing inside her head . |
| 9 | Morale had been at its highest for years , up to the moment that the news had reached them that Merseyside was out . |
| 10 | The leadership change was widely seen as an attempt to rejuvenate the party , whose fortunes had been at their lowest since it first came to power in 1981 . |
| 11 | He 's scored four in just five starts , and said : ‘ It 's been a good start but I still do n't think I 've been at my best . ’ |
| 12 | Historically , England have been at their best defensively with a solid centre-half , and a more mobile central defender/sweeper type player ( e.g. Moore/Charlton , etc ) . |
| 13 | Admiral Scowcroft 's visit at the head of a senior delegation including the Deputy Secretary of State , Mr Lawrence Eagleburger , seemed to offer China 's leadership a face saving way to patch up its rift with Washington , with whom China 's relations have been at their lowest ebb since Mr Nixon 's trail-blazing 1972 trip to Beijing . |
| 14 | Notebooks out plagiarists while I reveal the secret of NME 's enduring success : some music papers have been good at treating Rock as An Art Form , others have been great at capturing the essential triviality , sensuality and sheer stupidity of pop ; NME , when it 's been at its best , has managed to combine the two things without going stark staring schizo-bonkers . |