Example sentences of "[to-vb] it [prep] [art] [adj -est] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's not going to stop the abuse of power , it 's just going to restrict it to the highest level . |
| 2 | But , carrying baskets of buffalo dung from the pit by the cattle shed , along the road and down towards the mango tree to put it on the furthest field , my nose was burnt before I 'd walked twenty yards . |
| 3 | Now you 'll then have to look and see if they tell you to give it to the nearest metre or the nearest maybe the nearest maybe the nearest point one of a metre or three significant figures or three decimal places . |
| 4 | It seems that the evolution of his remedy preparation was fuelled by the desire to create , not only , a highly dynamised remedy but also to give it in the smallest dose ( quantity ) possible to effect a curative response . |
| 5 | Being an unabashed admirer of the Guardian 's Notes & Queries column , I have decided to flatter it in the sincerest way possible . |
| 6 | Secular books on the New Age tend to treat it as the latest fad ; the ‘ in thing ’ of the eighties , full of Alternative Types and quaint ideas about the ‘ good life ’ down on the organic , backyard farm . |
| 7 | The man who ushered in a golden age of middle-distance running , Brendan Foster , was at the peak of his powers and the two men who were to carry it to the greatest heights , Steve Ovett and Sebastian Coe , were just beginning to emerge . |
| 8 | We shall certainly try to monitor it with the best precision that we can but , at this stage , we do not have firm figures . |
| 9 | They set up the mills to husk the rice and charter the ships to transport it to the best markets — then sit back . |
| 10 | Finding s okay so there was a little bit of it was a little bit awkward to get it to the nearest degree there . |