Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [noun] at [art] [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | You 're just not going to be able to maintain your rugby at the highest standard otherwise . |
| 3 | ( And the western Greeks tended to make their dedications at the nearest of the Greek sanctuaries of the mainland , Olympia , rather than creating or patronizing a big cult centre of their own , ) Fifth-century Italy and Sicily did produce historians , like Hippys of Rhegion , or Antiochus and Philistus of Syracuse , the ‘ Sicilian Herodotus and the Sicilian Thucydides ’ ; even Dionysius I , tyrant of Syracuse from the late fifth century to 367 , wrote history as well as the tragedies and comedies for which he was , as we shall see , more famous . |
| 4 | Jackson , narrowly beaten by McCoy in the Indoor Championships after coming a poor seventh in the Olympics , is determined to prove his worth at the highest level . |
| 5 | Jackson , narrowly beaten by McCoy in the Indoor Championships after coming a poor seventh in the Olympics , is determined to prove his worth at the highest level . |