Example sentences of "[verb] to [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The airline has developed a total package of distribution services for its freight forwarding agents , carefully designed to best service the ultimate customers ; the manufacturer and the purchaser . |
| 2 | ‘ If they make more money in Germany , say , than they do at home , they will need to reinvest more there , ’ he says . |
| 3 | If the firm has to reinvest some of its earnings to survive , then those retained earnings are not true economic income that could be consumed by the shareholder without reducing the share 's consumption-generating power in the future . |
| 4 | Frequently , moreover , there appears to be little concern that advice should be available to the teacher or headmaster , to ensure that he uses what few resources he has to best effect . |
| 5 | According to Best and da Silva , the degree of hostility from commercial fishermen towards the boto is unquestionably growing . |
| 6 | The disease activity in Crohn 's disease was assessed using the CDAI according to Best et al and van Hees et al and in ulcerative colitis the Sutherland score was used . |
| 7 | Recent outbreaks of salmonella have declined to sharply , according to latest Government statistics , but experts have warned that it is too soon to conclude that salmonella is under control . |
| 8 | Israel 's tourist industry is gradually recovering to pre-Gulf War levels , according to latest Israeli Government statistics . |
| 9 | SINGLES sales are at their lowest ebb for 20 years , according to latest industry figures , but with the material record companies are turning out , they 've only got themselves to blame . |
| 10 | According to latest Audit Bureau of Circulations figures , average October to March sales of the Sunday Express have stepped up to 1,666,993 this year from 1,617,129 in the equivalent period last year , a rise of more than three per cent . |
| 11 | According to latest figures , 93 per cent . |
| 12 | And you see all the beams are chamfered , not so much for decoration but because they seem to have done that according to latest research , done that to take the bark off because it was the bark where the parasites tended to get in . |
| 13 | The number of visitors to Redcar has fallen dramatically according to latest figures and Langbaurgh councillors blame its ‘ invisible ’ tourist information office , which has moved from the seafront to Dundas Street . |
| 14 | Council workers : Gateshead Council now employs 11,680 people , including 79 registered disabled , according to latest figures from the authority . |
| 15 | CONSUMER spending , one of the key planks in the Government 's strategy for economic recovery , remains in the doldrums , according to latest figures out yesterday . |
| 16 | In Chapters 4 and 5 we consider in more detail the writing techniques through which you can present to best effect the kinds of argument described here . |
| 17 | It is no accident that ‘ street furniture ’ and ‘ public art ’ are seen to best effect in a context which is entirely new — like London 's Broadgate office centre — or radically changed , such as the revived dockland areas in London , Liverpool , Cardiff and Swansea . |
| 18 | The companies took the point and began beautifying the environs of their stations in the manner suggested by Mitchell , designing their station gardens to be seen to best advantage by both those arriving on the train and those waiting on the station . |
| 19 | This slab of syncopated stupidity is receiving the heaviest of heavy MTV rotation and can be seen to fullest advantage bookending slurred appearances by that station 's in-house West Coast wastoid , Pauly Shore . |
| 20 | Her wariness turned to deepest mistrust . |
| 21 | This is money you would probably use to reinvest in your business by way of increased stock , new equipment or property . |
| 22 | As the campaign proceeded , I kept quiet as I began to have a vision of some grisly post-polling day ceremony in which I would be on a platform like a performance artist from the sixties , vomiting and gagging while attempting to ingest yet another page : ‘ You 're doing okay . |
| 23 | Setcreasea purpurea ( purple heart ) is an easy-to-grow trailing tradescantia , with long , elegant deep purple leaves , shown to best effect in good light . |
| 24 | And he wants to see a careful scrutiny to make sure that the existing money is used to greatest effect . |
| 25 | But much more needs to be done to co-ordinate effort if limited resources are to be used to greatest effect . |
| 26 | Continual assessment and updating of instructors would ensure that the limited time available for training was used to best effect . |
| 27 | Just as it is necessary to ensure full involvement of members , so the time available has to be used to best advantage . |
| 28 | By and large , the occasions when the nobility might exploit a situation as cavalry and those when artillery could be used to best effect were not the same . |
| 29 | Although the last thing we want is a return to rigid central control , the NHS does need some coordination to ensure that scarce resources are used to best advantage and not wasted by the unsupervised duplication of facilities . |
| 30 | Once the ‘ ordinary ’ needs of daily life have been successfully provided , mentally disordered people living in the community need regular skilled review of their mental state to ensure that medical , nursing and psychological expertise is used to best effect to minimize the impact of the disorder . |