Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] at the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Motorways are dangerous enough place at the best of times . |
| 2 | He was hard enough to resist at the best times . |
| 3 | A salmon is slippery enough to handle at the best of times , but one of this size … . |
| 4 | Such analyses are only performed at the lowest level when the areas of uncertainty have been reduced and refined . |
| 5 | All at once she began to laugh , and her anger , never very swiftly roused at the best of times , left her entirely . |
| 6 | Rowntree 's poverty line was drawn up , however , on the assumption that food was ‘ all purchased at the lowest current prices . |
| 7 | A Cabinet committee , expected to be chaired by the Prime Minister , will be set up soon to look at the broadest possible scope of environmental policy , taking in road traffic , housing , agriculture , the rural economy , energy , and industrial development , as well as the obvious ‘ green ’ areas of policy such as planning , waste disposal and pollution . |
| 8 | Acid lavas , such as those composed of rhyolite , which are derived from magma with a high silica content , are the most viscous and are generally erupted at the lowest temperatures ( Fig. 5.5 ) . |
| 9 | The Trap somehow appeared at the easiest end of the HVS graded list ; it should be at the top ! |
| 10 | Thirdly , in economic theory it is presumed that any level of output is always produced at the lowest technically feasible cost . |
| 11 | Therefore , the gastrin concentrations in the present study are probably measured at the lowest level . |
| 12 | Dissociation from the isolated sites 1 and 5 is also very slow ; the DNase I footprints are only slightly reduced at the longest time point ( 30 minutes ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Aristocratic influences were at their height during the first half of the nineteenth century and in any diplomatic service were always most marked at the highest levels . |
| 15 | It is this age group which is now growing at the fastest rate and the support of the sometimes frail ‘ old ’ is an important policy issue . |
| 16 | But this year , by the time I get through all the British news , I 'm too knackered to even glance at the latest adventures of Glistenin' Bill Clinton . |
| 17 | Traditional telecommunication links suffer from a restricted band width which means they are like very narrow pipes capable of carrying only limited supplies of water , even pumped at the highest possible pressures . |
| 18 | Hence , in this case there is a lower measured exothermicity from a structure which is already partially disordered at the lowest temperature from which ΔH is measured . |
| 19 | LEEDS UNIVERSITY must surely rank at the worst venue in Europe . |
| 20 | LEEDS UNIVERSITY must surely rank at the worst venue in Europe . |
| 21 | You know , they , they yes , yes they go to the Madechie shops and Athena or whatever and there looking at the best , and you ca n't afford it See Maryann and Richard are given up on erm buying Christmas presents because she says your buying things for people they do n't really want , everybody , therefore I think tokeny things are the best , and that 's what I 've bought this year . |
| 22 | For instance , treatments are listed for such conditions as suppurative pneumonia , cerebral oedema and purulent nephritis , obviously requiring highly skilled veterinary care and sometimes remedies at the highest potencies . |
| 23 | Avoid trying to jump white water , aiming instead to jump at the steepest part of the wave which is normally the part about to break , the critical section . |
| 24 | Without economic growth the demand for oil and gas is inevitably weak , leading to soft prices which are currently running at the lowest level for 20 years in real terms . |
| 25 | Everybody was there to be academically acknowledged at the highest level they could and sport was just something that came as well . |