Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Combined with their reluctance to enter the war , the Turks entertain great hopes of their army , upon which a major portion of the budget is spent : and they can not fail to recognise something ludicrous in an attitude which , at one moment , abhors the idea of fighting and at another lauds it as the noblest activity of man . |
| 2 | My members are willing to assist you to the best of their ability . ’ |
| 3 | This strikes me as the best way of getting a real working knowledge of computers . |
| 4 | Frankly , none of that interests me in the slightest . |
| 5 | There was a Captain Dennis Babbage whose hobby was Bradshaw , the famous railway time-table ; and anyone who had a journey to make was welcome to consult him about the easiest ( or most interestingly complicated ) route to take . |
| 6 | Finding s okay so there was a little bit of it was a little bit awkward to get it to the nearest degree there . |
| 7 | And ‘ first ’ is a word that suits them , for many recognise them as the finest original instrument group among baroque performers of the present day . |
| 8 | What took me so long to take you off the lowest shelf ( were they trying to hide you ? ) in W H Smith , and take you home ? |
| 9 | Whilst it is necessary to commence with an idea or concept , it is important to evaluate it at the earliest possible time , and thus the procedure is to commence testing by moving briefly into both the analysis and scheming phases . |
| 10 | When it came to fisticuffs Sean Connery was happy to mix it with the best of them — ‘ He believed stuntmen were there to take the knocks and let them have it in the fight scenes , ’ said one . |
| 11 | He knew he had performed well and he was able to present himself in the best possible aura , that of self-satisfaction , because Hopper gave him carte blanche to edit his own part on film . |
| 12 | Pots of money and willing at first to squire her to the latest ‘ in ’ restaurants and nightspots , charity balls , Henley , Ascot , the whole shebang . ’ |
| 13 | As a Unitarian he was debarred from holding civic appointments or public office , but , following the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts in 1828 , for the annulment of which he had campaigned , the corporation of Newcastle in 1832 invested him with the highest judicial function in their gift , the recordership , and shortly afterwards with the honorary freedom of the city . |
| 14 | That puts it in the worst quarter of local authorities . |
| 15 | Under a system of ‘ generic substitution ’ , even if your doctor wrote Inderal your chemist would be obliged to provide you with the cheapest form of that product , irrespective of the manufacturer , irrespective of the country of origin . |
| 16 | Despite signs of renewed interest from both Ford and Volkswagen ( keen to re-establish itself as the largest car manufacturer in Europe ) , the British government announced in March 1988 that it intended to pursue a wholly British solution for the remaining parts of Rover by selling it to British Aerospace ( BAe ) . |
| 17 | It was crowded too with holiday-makers on package tours , all eager to fling themselves on the nearest beach and sweat their way into a tan . |
| 18 | She must have some radar , he thought , that at the last saved her from the worst effects of his anger and frustration . |