Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I shall also be reviewing the way we get independent advice , so that the public will be able to see absolutely clearly that I act on the best possible evidence , without fear or favour . ’ |
| 2 | In desperation she slammed the stop-cock open and precious oxygen knifed outwards in an icy cloud that she aimed at the farthest point . |
| 3 | Among the women themselves there 's the feeling that you hope for the best and expect the worst , a deep pessimism that patriarchy rules and scarpers without paying the bills . |
| 4 | We much regret that this involved a net loss of some jobs but if we are to remain competitive against increasing overseas competition , it is essential that we operate with the lowest possible cost base and the most efficient facilities . |
| 5 | How is it that what seem like random discharges from a part of the brain that we share with the humblest reptiles can end up as the elaborate , coherent , cognitive activity we know as dreaming ? |
| 6 | Wordsworth discovered and established those kinds of poetry which would best suit him ; it is in the German period that we travel to the furthest limits of the ‘ Wordsworthian ’ vision , in poems such as the ‘ Lucy ’ and ‘ Matthew ’ sequences , which are at one level blindingly clear , but in terms of prose exposition almost impossible to ‘ explain' . |
| 7 | If we could answer these , I feel we should know a lot more than we do about the earliest history of the place and the way it has grown . |
| 8 | He ensures that they get to the best conferences and from time to time will organize his own , bringing in the best speakers . |
| 9 | And these were n't any old typefaces , they were Linotype 's which meant that they conformed to the highest typographic standards the industry was likely to require . |
| 10 | Calfa stressed that his government remained committed to the development of nuclear power , but would in future ensure that it conformed to the highest Western standards . |
| 11 | The only natural light came from an extremely tiny oblong of glass in the roof , but this was so filmy , and so splattered with accumulated bird lime , that it let in the flimsiest of light . |
| 12 | ‘ The only natural light came from an extremely tiny oblong of glass in the roof , but this was so filthy , and so splattered with accumulated bird lime , that it let in the flimsiest of light . |
| 13 | In fact I knew nothing of his family life — only that he came from the poorest part of the town , a row of " yards " containing tumbledown cottages , some of them evacuated because of their condition . |
| 14 | Fran had read all she could about Luke Calder before the interview and knew that he came from the poorest part of Glasgow and that he had got to where he was today by dint of sheer hard work and determination , but , looking at him now , she found it hard to imagine that he had come from anything but a moneyed background . |
| 15 | One of them said he was ‘ so fussy that he moaned about the smallest things — like the position of Miss Cuka 's arms in a scene ’ . |
| 16 | He climbed the three steps to the door , and pushed at it , but it was securely locked , so he went to the nearest window . |
| 17 | I was sitting in the make-up chair and I felt like the ugliest piece of shit there ever was . |
| 18 | Tonight 's programme has been made with the benefit of time and I think with the best of intentions . |
| 19 | And apart from the Bohemian Rhapsody news of the rest of the European football tonight and we have the double attacking spearhead of Colin Fray and Martin Fisher at the City ground and you listening to the classiest football cover on Radio Nottingham from five past seven . |
| 20 | But Maggie had a warm heart and she looked for the best in people . |
| 21 | And she ran to the nearest ladies ' room and emerged with bleary eyes , clutching at her stomach . |
| 22 | And at the end of the day then , you have to weigh up whether or not you decide that even though , if you like in the strictest financial terms , it is not profitable to open the cinema and to employ staff doing that although presumably they 'd have to be employed doing something else unless you changed their rota patterns nonetheless because of your the demands of funding bodies , your own cultural aims and equal opportunities policies , you 've decided that you will do so even though it 's going to be marginally a loss in financial terms . |
| 23 | So even at ten and a half percent rejection , if you look at the latest figures , it costs you thirty pounds a month for an Eagle Star low-cost super super-duper endowment , but at the end you 're only going to replace your money , if you 've got erm the ten and a half growth rate , ten and a half percent , which is unlikely i in current circumstances . |
| 24 | If you start with a quarter page like any sale if you start with the cheapest they 'll take it forget the rest . |
| 25 | We are constantly approached by people who want our help , and we respond in the best way we can . |
| 26 | When the complexities of circumstance defeat analysis , and we grope for the best prediction or choice attainable , we do not doubt that there is a better founded prediction or better informed choice which no one perhaps will be lucky enough to hit on . |
| 27 | " It has been dinned into the ears of our members without hesitation or scruple , and we repeat with the greatest force at our command that seamen , to whatever class they may belong , are false to themselves , to their cause and to their country in taking any course that may , even in the smallest degree , weaken the hands of those responsible for the conduct of the present campaign against the most ignoble foe that it has ever become Britain 's duty to tackle " . |
| 28 | Gradually the port wing tip fell on the ground and we came to the gentlest of stops some 70/80 yards from the engineering wing perimeter . |
| 29 | We got the coffee , he paid for it and we walked to the remotest part of the canteen , behind a sort of screen , why here I said . |
| 30 | If we succeed in the biggest executive operation , we can succeed with almost any operation . ’ |