Example sentences of "at worst [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they change their minds , the most they can expect is their funds returned without interest ; at worst they could lose some or all of their money . |
| 2 | At worst they can only say no ! |
| 3 | Many education and business strategies never achieve significant change through their service to partnership ; at best they are effective support work , at worst they are irrelevant . |
| 4 | None of the arguments , she thought , held up to any serious analysis ; at best they provoked people into thought about housework , at worst they antagonised large numbers of women and hostility in all men and women who worked in the labour movement in any way . |
| 5 | At worst they could be clumsy and inexperienced and you could be patronizing and condescending . |
| 6 | ‘ Because at worst they are hurt , at best they are inconvenienced . ’ |
| 7 | At worst they put one peg in where we had three . |
| 8 | At worst they could often act in parallel . |
| 9 | At worst they see the future as two motorway lanes blocked with slow lorries with just the outside lane for the car driver . |
| 10 | ‘ At worst they could virtually finish the liner shipping industry in Europe . |
| 11 | At worst we can now doubt for reasons which are purely moral , spiritual or psychological , as in the case of someone who is incurably suspicious , a problem which has nothing at all to do with epistemology . |
| 12 | At worst we will have to say that Simon Cormack has been found murdered . |
| 13 | As soon as they mount , he dashes into the water — at best he will give them a ducking , at worst he will drown and then eat them . |
| 14 | At worst he will limit himself to two a month , one Nil by his boss ( which the Profitboss might well have to suffer ) and one he might run for his own team to review progress . |
| 15 | At worst he was boring , in the same way that a golfer or a photographer or a dinghy-sailor or any other person obsessed by a hobby is boring . |
| 16 | At best Gould was callous and ungenerous in ensuring that he did not receive the praise he deserved ; at worst he was deliberately playing on Lear 's weakness , and jealously guarding the limelight for his most ambitious publication to date . |
| 17 | At worst you would get a severe electric shock , which could prove fatal . |
| 18 | If you 're still thinking twice , well , at worst you 'll only regret one week . |
| 19 | The best effect is achieved over a period of years , but at worst you really ca n't come to much harm . |
| 20 | At worst she has put Cabinet government temporarily on ice . |
| 21 | At worst she would be out of here in only a day or two . |
| 22 | At worst it was looked upon as evil and at best no more than a utilitarian pest-destroyer . |
| 23 | At best a displeased kuei will overturn furniture or pinch children 's faces ; at worst it will bring sickness or death to the home . |
| 24 | At best , it could kill interest in learning : at worst it could foster the alienation of the young . |
| 25 | At best , or so it was thought , it would give the United Nations some muscle to stop governments doing terrible things to their peoples ; at worst it would serve up a forest of platitude . |
| 26 | At best the relationship was paternalistic , at worst it was authoritarian and dehumanising . |
| 27 | At worst it could conclude that the Home Office pianist was doing his best and need not be shot . |
| 28 | At worst it has unjustly built expectations of a return to mass employment ; put money into the pocket of large consultancy firms ; served the objectives of narrow sectional interests ; undermined physical and administrative planning ; substituted ACE and private contract jobs for public sector jobs ; been irrelevant to the needs of women ; been virtually unaccountable ; and invested less than one tenth of the money it took to de-nationalise Shorts and Harlands , even had the programme 's money been additional . |
| 29 | Labourism has failed to produce a politics of private life which is not patriarchal ; at best it pities the dole-queue mothers , at worst it scorns them . |
| 30 | These methods are well suited to computers and often have the advantage that , should an error occur , at worst it lengthens the computations a little . |