Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [noun] [prep] [art] [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This means that , as part of an internal market , hospitals would trade with one another , with self-governing hospitals or with the private sector in order to provide their patients with the best treatment available . |
| 2 | LIVERPUDLIAN professional golfer Karl ‘ Hitman ’ Woodward ( 42 ) , was today aiming to establish his claim as the longest driver in the world . |
| 3 | Should you wish to change your holiday arrangements in any way we will endeavour to meet your wishes to the best of our ability . |
| 4 | it is your duty as a manager or supervisor to tell your subordinates all that they need to know to perform their work to the best of their ability |
| 5 | However , this year Mildred was older and hopefully wiser ( at any rate she was more full of good intentions than ever ) and she was quite determined to lose her reputation as the worst witch in the school . |
| 6 | LASMO aims to conduct its business to the highest possible professional standards . |
| 7 | This is seen as the first sign that Soviet nuclear scientists , who are threatened by redundancy following the disintegration of the union , will seek to sell their skills to the highest bidders . |
| 8 | In other words , he wants to make it legally impossible for the shareholders , who employ him , to sell their shares to the highest bidder . |
| 9 | Unsurprisingly , it was a subject that frequently cropped up at the dinner table , especially when visitors were present and Sir Gregory was able to pick their brains on the latest news from Rome , Paris or Madrid . |
| 10 | The students were being fed contradictory messages and did what they could to lead their lives in the best way possible , given deteriorating conditions and mounting ideological and political debates . |
| 11 | If he does not do so , Edwards will be able to sell his stake to the highest bidder . |
| 12 | In business sales cases the conflicting public interests are that a man is not at liberty to deprive himself or the community of his labour and expertise unreasonably and yet he must have a freedom to sell his business for the best price ; which may be only obtainable if he precludes himself from entering into competition with the purchaser ( see James VC in Leather Cloth Co v Lorsont ( 1869 ) LR 9 Eq 354 ) . |
| 13 | That is fundamental to the needs of our economy in the years ahead ; fundamental to the prospects for unemployed people ; and fundamental also to the creation of opportunities for our people not only to obtain work , to have and to hold down a job , but to obtain work and jobs which give them satisfaction , which are truly rewarding and which enable them to fulfil their potential to the greatest possible extent . |
| 14 | Famous for their hair care products , Wella want you to experience their benefits to the fullest . |
| 15 | Amanullah 's pursuit of his two most cherished objectives , to modernize his country in the shortest possible time and to make it independent of Britain , soon brought him into headlong conflict with Humphrys , whose previous eighteen years in India , mostly among the tribes across the frontier from Afghanistan , had not prepared him to deal with a ruler of such independence of mind . |
| 16 | This is a great opportunity for LASMO 's team to pit its wits against the best in Britain , have a really enjoyable evening and help a most worthy cause . |
| 17 | To see that all parties get justice , are dealt with fairly and get the chance to put their cases to the best of their abilities . |
| 18 | This Meeting consider this a great hardship , Lint being a staple article of the Island they therefore wish Shawfield may have the Goodness to order matters upon such a footing as to enable his Tenantry to put their manufacture to the best avail . " |
| 19 | Disciplined and naturally dignified , he was a most thoughtful and observant bowler , a little pacier than many left handers , but matching variation with accuracy in exemplary style , and always eager to pit his wits against the best . |
| 20 | For an officer in Northern Nigeria to complain that his emir refused to take his advice was to put his career at the gravest possible risk ; he could expect in due course to be moved to ‘ easier work ’ — in other words , to administrative oblivion . |
| 21 | What we needed desperately was more good information to put our resources to the best use . |
| 22 | This will not occur if lack of competition enables firms to keep their prices above the lowest attainable costs of production . |
| 23 | For British artists it 's important that they should be able to match their work against the best international modern art . |
| 24 | The electronic mouse detector system introduced by Rentokil over a year ago has now received full patent protection [ no 2,179481 ] and several companies have installed the system in order to protect their businesses with the best possible ‘ early warning system ’ , yet without chemical rodenticides . |
| 25 | It enabled him to ask the bluntest of questions in the politest of tones and to disguise his opinion behind the blandest of smiles . |
| 26 | When several crimes appear to emerge from the facts of a problem , it is best to start your answer with the gravest crime that seems clearly to have been committed . |
| 27 | It was the image which counted — if we 're to hold our position as the largest security organization on the Continent . |
| 28 | It was a it was a competition between the carters to get their horses into the best condition . |
| 29 | Blind children at a college in Worcester ca n't wait to get their hands on the latest batch of adventure stories , translated into braille by computor . |
| 30 | Those undertaking the drainage were quick to stake their claim to the best bits of land . |