Example sentences of "[to-vb] at the [adj -est] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Its aim , according to Vice-President Al Gore , is to " ensure that environmental considerations are brought to bear at the earliest stages in the development of economic policy " .
2 He was hard enough to resist at the best times .
3 Indeed it is a credit to Wilko that the board have been confident enough in him to compete at the highest levels in the transfer market .
4 He has not visited the cliff , but questions the Frenchman 's ability to climb at the highest levels .
5 In the next Chapter , for example , it is shown that the system requires a large forcing resistance to operate at the highest speeds and in most cases the total phase resistance is then much greater than the optimum for electromagnetic damping .
6 This is a useful technique for systems designed to operate at the highest speeds , where the time taken for the initial current build.up exceeds the step period , so that chopping action does not have time to begin in an excited phase ( Acarnley , 1984 ) .
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