Example sentences of "best an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | More likely it was the knowledge that , for all Dysart 's manifest charm and proven ability , he had a wife who was at best an adulteress , at worst a traitor ; either Minter 's dupe or his co-conspirator . |
| 3 | It is at best an outline of the main points in a rather complex field . |
| 4 | The Prince Napoleon-Jerome had from the inauguration of the Empire been a constant , and public , critic of his cousin 's policies , proving himself to be at best an embarrassment , at worst a threat to the regime . |
| 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 . |
| 6 | Yet this can be a difficult concept for many professionals who regard clients as at best an intrusion on , and at worst an irritation in , their working day . |
| 7 | For most of the leaders among the Owenites the distinction only showed itself in their recognition that the Bill had done nothing for working people ; that since the prime need , as they saw it , was to act directly to remove the evils of a system which grievously oppressed the lives of working people , the Bill had been at best an irrelevance , at worst a distraction . |
| 8 | At the time of his appointment to PFF , the Command was just getting used to GEE , thought originally to be a bombing aid but really at best an aid to navigation . |