Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [verb] [verb] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Working on corpora of North American conversational data , they proceed very much from the bottom-up trying to establish the smallest units first . |
| 2 | The retailer needs to know the best time to advertise seasonal goods — eg camping equipment will be promoted in the spring , ready for the summer . |
| 3 | The retailer needs to know the best time to advertise … goods . |
| 4 | The spinning streamers of fog trawled for sunlight that would n't be here for a while , and the snow had piled the purest of pillows at the foot of an ice-cliff . |
| 5 | As well as planning transport and development together , the Plan seeks to conserve the best of our towns and countryside . |
| 6 | It had proved a good move as the sector had avoided the worst excesses of the building slump . |
| 7 | The artwork needs to offer the greatest possible contrast to the camera , so it is best to use a very black ink on a very white paper ( equally true , of course , for photocopying regardless of what colour paper you want to print on ) . |
| 8 | The record shows that the committee continued to use the greatest care in the expenditure of public money , however . |
| 9 | Since its introduction in 1989 , the campaign has earned the highest awareness ever for Harp advertising . |
| 10 | I could list many individual examples of how the tax has treated the poorest and most vulnerable in society . |
| 11 | On one site the author recalls contacting the oldest locals , who advised that a site had only flooded once in living memory and they were only too pleased to point out a ’ flood line ’ still just visible on a number of buildings in the area after 30 years . |
| 12 | Undoubtedly , as a general rule , the seller wants to get the highest price for his property , and the purchaser wishes to give the lowest , and in that sense it may be said that an expected difference between the parties is to be implied in every case , but unless a difference has actually arisen , it does not appear to me to be an " arbitration " . |
| 13 | The Purchaser seeks to have the best of both worlds . |
| 14 | Undoubtedly , as a general rule , the seller wants to get the highest price for his property , and the purchaser wishes to give the lowest , and in that sense it may be said that an expected difference between the parties is to be implied in every case , but unless a difference has actually arisen , it does not appear to me to be an " arbitration " . |
| 15 | Chris Wolley emerged as a great choir leader and guitar player at this period and his strident voice leading the crew seemed to calm the roughest sea or cheer us up at the right moment . |
| 16 | But the court has to do the best it can by way of what are really conventional figures in relation to injuries , the court assessing , of course , on the individual facts of the case , what is sometimes called the tariff , making adjustments for particular facts of the particular case . |
| 17 | The ethics of the movement involved using the best materials , simplicity of design and genuine craftsmanship . |
| 18 | Conservative management of the economy has stoked the biggest credit boom in Britain 's history . |
| 19 | In trying to protect sources of water for drinking , the EC proposal is a step towards environmental purity rather than a sticking-plaster solution which does the minimum needed to avoid the worst nitrate pollution . |
| 20 | The woman had promised the youngest child that she should go to the fair , but she must go when it suited her mother . |
| 21 | The creature has uttered the direst of threats — not against my life , which is of little account , but against Elizabeth 's . |
| 22 | I 'm all in favour of the Government seeking to get the best value for money , but HMSO is not a private company . ’ |
| 23 | We have a large coalfired power station near where I live er in Oxfordshire er at a place called Didcot , which is also a railway er junction erm roughly halfway between Harwell where we , we invented er nuclear power and , and Culham where they 're working on nuclear fusion which is a different kind of nuclear power , roughly halfway between the government decides to build the largest coalfired power station in the country . |
| 24 | I hope that the Government have read the latest British Coal press release from its chairman . |
| 25 | Nick Barr , a keen supporter of loans , is of the opinion that the government has chosen the worst possible option , claiming that the scheme is inordinately expensive and that it will accentuate the middle class bias in access to higher education . |
| 26 | It was under Somes 's sole ownership in the 1830s that the firm rose to become the largest in England . |
| 27 | The Agency has painted the brightest picture of Wales around the world . |
| 28 | They consume , destroy , and devour whole fields , houses and cities For look in what parts of the realm doth grow the finest and dearest wool , there noblemen and gentlemen , yea and certain abbots … leave no ground for tillage . |
| 29 | And Senegal , one of the 30 poorest nations in the world has set the best example of all . |
| 30 | Because the intrusive habits of the certain members of the press have driven the best stories underground . |