Example sentences of "[to-vb] their [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 | 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | In other words , he wants to make it legally impossible for the shareholders , who employ him , to sell their shares to the highest bidder . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 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 | Famous for their hair care products , Wella want you to experience their benefits to the fullest . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . " |
| 11 | This will not occur if lack of competition enables firms to keep their prices above the lowest attainable costs of production . |
| 12 | For British artists it 's important that they should be able to match their work against the best international modern art . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It was a it was a competition between the carters to get their horses into the best condition . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Those undertaking the drainage were quick to stake their claim to the best bits of land . |
| 17 | As Norton Taylor points out , ‘ administrations have always attempted to present their policies in the best possible light ; to avoid public relations pitfalls ; to coordinate information policy ; and to counter bad news they can do little about … ’ . |
| 18 | It should not have been a surprise that companies sought to use that range of permissible techniques to present their results in the best light . |
| 19 | … 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 … . |
| 20 | The rest will have to take their chances in the biggest stampede to see a Northern Ireland game in eight years . |
| 21 | Hundreds of buyers turn up to take their pick of the best of the County breed . |
| 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 | ( 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 . |