Example sentences of "at the [adv] [adj] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mark Flatts , a 20-year-old midfielder making an impressive full debut , robbed Sutton as he dribbled out of the penalty area and the ball fell to Wright 20 yards out but at the most acute of angles . |
| 2 | Mandy , as always , bounced through every day full of cheer and optimism , watching all the goings-on as if she had happened on front-row seats at the most enjoyable of soap operas . |
| 3 | I thought of hypothetical dangers — murderers , rapists ; and I have no doubt that such are abroad at night in the most unlikely of places at the most unlikely of times . |
| 4 | To illustrate the point , de Man considers , among others , Proust 's image of the iridescent foundation , which " aims at the most demanding of reconciliations , that of motion and stasis " ( 1979 : 68 ) . |
| 5 | There , at the heart of the cold season , at the very dead of winter , he spoke in bright impassioned terms of the birth of the Christ-child as the abiding promise of new life . |
| 6 | It always came up at the very worst of times . |