Example sentences of "at the [adj -est] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the highest diplomatic level they were now more consistently important than ever before . |
| 2 | At the time a decision was made at the highest political level , with help from the mighty KGB chief Yury Andropov . |
| 3 | But the GDR , as Dieter will confirm , I 'm sure , happens still to have the morality of Salem when they are putting little old ladies to the torch — at least at the highest political level . |
| 4 | Consultations at the highest political level shall take place as often as required , and at least once a year . |
| 5 | All this reflected a recognition at the highest political level that the country 's foreign relations must include , at least for the time being and probably permanently , an unprecedented effort to shape and direct opinion abroad . |
| 6 | All professionals will have , as an objective , the desire to provide a service to their client at the highest possible standard using whatever resources may be required . |
| 7 | The aim to teach and carry out research at the highest possible level in the University 's mission statement is key to the future successful development of the University . |
| 8 | We have a mission to widen access to higher education and to teach and research at the highest possible level . |
| 9 | They make a sudden darting movement at the highest possible speed and then quickly freeze , staying quite still in the undergrowth . |
| 10 | Well , I 'm not sure that 's correct , but anyway Mill thinks that these ideas local participation of jury service are ways of getting people involved at the highest practical level of participation . |
| 11 | As for rugby … well , nothing quite so glaring , yet still enough to provoke a creeping unease about affairs at the highest international level , whether it concerns incomplete accounts for the 1987 World Cup ; unfulfilled profit projections , by a huge margin , with disturbing outline accounts emanating from the 1991 event ; and what seem to be , at the time of writing , so many unanswered questions about the 1995 World Cup . |
| 12 | Indeed , even honesty is a mere legal concept now , rather than a moral one , as they undertake to hide important information from us in order to borrow as cheaply as possible , while they lend at the highest practicable rate . |
| 13 | In the 1970s , mortgage relief was available at the highest marginal tax rate up to £25,000 — the equivalent of £200,000 today — and school-fees could be paid by any number of schemes , such as grandparents covenanting part of their income . |
| 14 | 2. at the highest military level , involving FM Alexander , General Eisenhower at SHAEF and the Chiefs of Staff in Washington and London ; |
| 15 | But in general , and especially at the highest creative level , words were redundant . |
| 16 | Uniscan was not complex , but simply based upon consultation at the highest bureaucratic level , with occasional ministerial meetings . |
| 17 | Given the substantial gap in standards between Scottish club rugby and the international arena , the Scots , who do not play their next game until February 3 , clearly need all the match practice they can get at the highest competitive level . |
| 18 | This trial shows yet again the danger that work with vulnerable children , particularly in residential homes , may attract the very people who should be kept at the greatest possible distance from it . |
| 19 | Once you have picked up a signal you concentrate in that area until the signal is received at the greatest possible volume . |
| 20 | If you stepped out of line , then look out , but you quickly learned to do as you were told at the greatest possible speed . |
| 21 | His need was to exist , and to move onwards at the greatest possible risk , and with a maximum of privation . |
| 22 | Though she was stiff and slightly sore , the tension that had made her talk too much , drop things , and jump at the smallest unexpected noise had completely disappeared . |
| 23 | And while they 're telling you about it , take a close look at the finest four-seater coupé of the 'nineties . |
| 24 | The subsidiarity principle ( taking decisions at the lowest practicable level of government ) , which the British government makes much of , is drafted in a form so soft that it will cut both ways if it cuts at all . |
| 25 | A. Long ago Glasgow was a small market town with a cathedral at the lowest bridging point of a shallow River Clyde . |
| 26 | With respect to the issue of subsidiarity , he emphasised that the British view of subsidiarity was to have decisions taken at the lowest effective level of authority . |
| 27 | The transcription products were quantitated by densitometry ; P A2b activity is expressed in each case relative to that observed with supercoiled DNA at the lowest ionic strength assayed , which is considered as 100% . |
| 28 | From the early years following the introduction of the 1924 Regulations , experience showed that the net income derived from grant-aid , coupled with the District 's policy of setting its student fees at the lowest possible level to encourage enrolments , failed to lead to financial self-sufficiency and the District 's financial difficulties , although eased initially , were not eradicated . |
| 29 | Thus , if the whole internal process were slowed down enormously , one could actually see a representation of each command executed by the machine at the lowest possible level of representation . |
| 30 | The aim is to find the most stable balance achievable , at the lowest possible level . |