Example sentences of "at [pos pn] [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If employees are to work at their best they must : |
| 2 | At their best they combine funky chugs of hyperactive bass with agonised guitar and belt-across-the-chops vocals which verge on the schizophrenic . |
| 3 | It offers little , and concedes little , to merely natural feelings : even religious feelings it will not heighten till it has first sobered them ; but at its greatest it shines with a white light hardly surpassed outside the pages of the New Testament itself . |
| 4 | At its best it remains one of the few areas of the modern press where imagination , honesty and idealism , however fatuous , can still , occasionally , be found . |
| 5 | Despite these defects , at its best it is a place of civilized relaxation , as well as hard work , and an unrivalled solvent of social prejudices and preparation for democratic living . |
| 6 | At its best it satisfies the sense of hubris in all of us and helps us to forget the inevitable contrast between real and ideal , in human love as in every other human impulse . |
| 7 | At its best it had focused ideas and inculcated democratic values . |
| 8 | At its best it leads to the best sort of poster — those for Guinness , Polo , Benson & Hedges — where hardly any words are needed . |
| 9 | His muscular prose — at its best it has the insistent rhythm if a middleweight boxer pounding the heavy bag — with its imaginative flourishes , was perfectly suited to the age which brought us the utterly modern talents of George Best , Rod Laver , Jack Niklaus , Jim Clark , Pele and Jackie Stewart . |
| 10 | One important objection made against this method is that even at its best it provides evidence not of the actual exercise of power but of potential power , and presumed potential power at that . |
| 11 | Criticism reworks the relations of past and present , and at its best it does so dynamically , intervening in the past and the present to offer changed perspectives . |
| 12 | When the system worked at its best it realized the highest hopes : " The opportunity for college directors to purchase low-cost systems geared to institutional management , as well as to LEA or national data requirements , created a significant opportunity to improve strategic , tactical and operational management . |
| 13 | At its best it works well , clarifying objectives , improving ideas , through dialogue between academic equals working to a common end . |
| 14 | At its grandest it produced the Italian palazzo : Chester General ( 1848 ) or Dublin Amiens Street ( 1844 ) . |
| 15 | At its deepest I reckoned the water might be waist high . |
| 16 | At its simplest we are looking at a sequence of events . |
| 17 | Putting it at its simplest it should be at least a clear mission statement which the whole organisation understands . |
| 18 | Bell-ringing requires technique , but even at its simplest it is great fun , not least because it is faintly alarming . |
| 19 | At its simplest it is a search for systemic laws or patterns at work in phenomena — such as a language , a culture , or a society . |
| 20 | For most of the time it is out of binocular range , but when at its brightest it is easy enough to find , and binoculars of × 8 or higher power will show colour in it ; it is very red , and of spectral type S. |
| 21 | Erm but , at it at its worst I mean the worst publicity followed this this incident of a an elderly lady having her fingers broken and and money stolen off her by some some lads in their I do n't know late early teens I think . |
| 22 | At its worst it may have been a parasitic racket representing only itself to the detriment of all , but on the larger canvas of society it gave political power to a narrow group of substantial landowners in loose alliance with merchant princes and the small towns which returned members to Parliament . |
| 23 | It would n't have been on the books if I ever seen blatant sectarianism at its worst it 's in that bloody motion . |
| 24 | So at its worst it is a seriously and life-threatening paralysing disease , but in its minor forms not really a great deal of trouble , although upsetting enough for the patients who have it . |
| 25 | At his heaviest he was 18st 3lb , and he lost seven stone in 10 months . |
| 26 | It was this work , along with the subsequent brilliance of his public performances , that created his reputation as ‘ Canada 's leading young poet ’ : ‘ His virtues are his own , and they are considerable … at his best he expresses himself , sometimes whimsically , sometimes passionately , in speech which is beyond the capacity of mere formula to produce , ’ commented Allan Donaldson at the time . |
| 27 | Although just over five feet eight inches tall , and seldom well trained , at his best he was strong , fast , and skilful enough to hold his own with Cribb , reputedly the best of all bare-knuckle boxers , and but for his fondness for high living , might well have been champion . |
| 28 | At his best he 's awesome |
| 29 | Nevertheless , even at his gravest he has a benign twinkle . |
| 30 | But I think I 've got to get in and I 've got to think well this next six months erm I 've got ta work hard to get in regardless of whether I go voluntary or whether I go to a hospital and learn it at me own you know , expense . |