Example sentences of "at the [adj -est] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The LTA is operating in what is today a very professional tennis world , yet on all the LTA 's innumerable committees , there is hardly a single person who has had personal experience of playing top class international tennis at the highest level since the game went ‘ Open ’ in 1968 . |
| 2 | One highly ‘ political ’ Lord Chancellor — like Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone — can , if he chooses , make a considerable impact on judicial lawmaking at the highest level but , for this to be so , it is not necessary that he should have held political office or have been a Member of Parliament or a law officer . |
| 3 | Goals via the through ball are always hard to come by at the highest level because of the quality of defenders and the sweeper system . |
| 4 | Weekend talk of policy rifts at the highest level and of impending recession , and a perception that the Government is most reluctant to raise interest rates again , caused sterling to collapse to its lowest against the Deutschemark since the celebrated events of March last year . |
| 5 | It would be helpful to state this clearly at the highest level and work out a strategy to match the vision . |
| 6 | TREVOR FRANCIS spent the whole of his playing career at the highest level and is now making it clear he 's not going to drop those standards as a manager . |
| 7 | It is only in such circumstances that I would feel assured that the matter had received consideration at the highest level and that there was no risk that the criminal law would be impeded . |
| 8 | He has already sampled success at the highest level and after winning the Celebration Mile at Goodwood last Saturday on Swing Low he has his eyes firmly focused on more Group One events . |
| 9 | ‘ Mickey has played at the highest level and he gets the same thing out of the game as he has always done . |
| 10 | It moved to the then co-ordinator of security and intelligence in the Cabinet Office , Sir Antony Duff , who was given the right of direct access to Mrs Thatcher and encouraged to override the JIC 's supporting machinery and voice his concerns at the highest level when a potential emergency was sensed . |
| 11 | It could not have been more than three feet deep at the deepest point and as little as six inches in others . |
| 12 | At that time we can respond by the greatest amount and at the greatest speed and we perceive it as being least difficult . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Such analyses are only performed at the lowest level when the areas of uncertainty have been reduced and refined . |
| 15 | Specifically- one strong hypothesis is that of Fama and Jensen : Organisations compete for survival , and the form of organisation that survives in an activity is the one that delivers the product demanded by the customers at the lowest price while covering costs ' ( 1983 , p. 345 ) — a Darwinian view . |
| 16 | ( Employees must maintain their houses in good condition , make every effort to sell at the best price and receive company authority before accepting an offer . ) |
| 17 | Not surprisingly , the productivity strategy fits snugly with the Government 's declared plans for selling off coal at the best price if it won the election . |
| 18 | Prenatal diagnosis often improves the management of such cases by allowing the baby to be delivered at the best time and place for appropriate surgery . |
| 19 | But globalisation means that companies have to invest where they can produce cheapest and at the best quality and where they can earn profits . |
| 20 | He flailed for balance , snatched at the closest tablecloth and dragged a cascade of smashing china and chinking silver to the floor as he fell . |
| 21 | A Schools Council report ( 1970 ) has emphasized that the problem is not that this sort of pupil leaves school at the earliest opportunity but that as far as school learning goes they ‘ leave ’ at the age of about 12 . |
| 22 | The abandonment yesterday of unilateral nuclear disarmament ( although not the intention of abandoning Britain 's nuclear deterrent at the earliest opportunity while other countries keep theirs ) was done in the same spirit of moralism which had gone into the banning of the Bomb . |
| 23 | Purchasers should be encouraged to meet with potential acquisition candidates at the earliest opportunity after they have first been approached . |
| 24 | The Visegrad countries stressed their wish to join the EC at the earliest opportunity and repeated their call for economic help from the EC , in particular through access to EC markets . |
| 25 | Rangers ' pitch will now be lifted at the earliest opportunity and a new one laid in its place , so long as the work can be carried out in time for the new season . |
| 26 | When an appeal is made from a decision of a family proceedings court in a secure accommodation order case , or in any case of urgency where time is short , it is the duty of the appellant solicitor to make the district registry or the district judge aware of the need for urgency and to invite the district registry or district judge to list the matter at the nearest court where an early hearing can take place before a High Court judge ( post , p. 92D–E ) . |
| 27 | When an appeal is made from a decision of a family proceedings court in a secure accommodation order case , or in any case of urgency where time is short , it is the duty of the appellant solicitor to make the district registry aware of the need for urgency and to invite the district registry or the district judge to list the matter at the nearest court where an early hearing can take place before a High Court judge . |
| 28 | The Means Test is very strictly enforced , and you are liable to be refused relief at the slightest hint that you are getting money from another source . |
| 29 | Now sheep are animals that we tend to regard as being pretty stupid and most of the time they 're timid creatures who will run away at the slightest sound or sight of something strange in their midst . |
| 30 | Mr Knight , who was a county councillor for Harwich for 12 years , said he was very upset at the latest snub but did not want to comment further until he had considered his next move . |