Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] [art] [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | LIVERPUDLIAN professional golfer Karl ‘ Hitman ’ Woodward ( 42 ) , was today aiming to establish his claim as the longest driver in the world . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | LASMO aims to conduct its business to the highest possible professional standards . |
| 5 | If he does not do so , Edwards will be able to sell his stake to the highest bidder . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . " |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | For British artists it 's important that they should be able to match their work against the best international modern art . |
| 12 | It enabled him to ask the bluntest of questions in the politest of tones and to disguise his opinion behind the blandest of smiles . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It was the image which counted — if we 're to hold our position as the largest security organization on the Continent . |
| 15 | Those undertaking the drainage were quick to stake their claim to the best bits of land . |
| 16 | The Profitboss rarely turns down an invitation to speak at a conference , seizing the opportunity to present his company in the best light , to fine-tune his own professional skills . |
| 17 | You 're just not going to be able to maintain your rugby at the highest standard otherwise . |
| 18 | … when came the fashion for the vanishing author , the silent author , the transparent text … , the critics , always quick to adapt their vocabulary to the latest bandwagon , started calling the narrator both character who narrates and the producer of the text , that is , the author … . |
| 19 | Hundreds of buyers turn up to take their pick of the best of the County breed . |
| 20 | A collection letter has only one purpose — to collect your money in the shortest possible time . |
| 21 | Do you know how to upgrade your software to the latest version for the least cost ? |
| 22 | It recommended fellow-prisoners to occupy their time to the best advantage , such as attending a talk on ‘ The Poetry of T. S. Eliot ’ , and there was a sketch of a man studiously reading a book with this title . |
| 23 | Potential licensees have to register their interest in the latest group of pits by July 2 and will be able to visit a colliery and receive more detailed information on payment of a £10,000 bond . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |