Example sentences of "at the highest [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 .
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