Example sentences of "[pron] to compete [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had he not suffered from cerebral palsy , said , Cathy Williams , he would be a fine athlete , one to compete with the best . |
| 2 | They want our tied estate and ‘ English heritage ’ beers to enable them to compete with the five major national tied estate brewers . |
| 3 | Companies such as Rover , Alfa-Romeo and Seat became increasingly caught in no man 's land , insufficiently large to compete on effective terms with the Big Six and yet unable to gain a secure niche in the market which would enable them to compete with the luxury car makers . |
| 4 | I suspect that they also had scholarly and dedicated teachers and well read ministers and the encouragement of parents who realised that the only chance their children had of improving their way of life was by having the best education possible which would enable them to compete for the limited number of places which were available in the colleges and universities . |
| 5 | Instead , several different groups of biologists tried , each in their own way , to modernize field studies in a manner that would allow them to compete for the ever-increasing supply of research funding being made available by governments and private institutions . |
| 6 | Pavel Penkin is the strike leader , what farmers want he says is a massive injection of state investment to enable them to compete in the new free market and improve their lot . |
| 7 | Indeed it is a credit to Wilko that the board have been confident enough in him to compete at the highest levels in the transfer market . |
| 8 | I would n't expect it to compete for the funnel-web spider ‘ small but deadly ’ award in the same way that a Mesa Boogie .22 could , but look at the price difference and you 'll appreciate why . |
| 9 | The Izmailovo , which has 5,000 bedrooms is about to undergo a three-year , £20m refurbishment to enable it to compete in the international business and tourism travel market . |
| 10 | The company justified the closure as part as part of a cost-cutting exercise necessary to allow it to compete in the private sector . |
| 11 | In the case of the Single Currency , the weak country is forced into similar deflationary policies in order to try to depress its unit costs so as to enable it to compete against the strong countries . |