Example sentences of "[to-vb] their [noun pl] [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 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 .
3 In other words , he wants to make it legally impossible for the shareholders , who employ him , to sell their shares to the highest bidder .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 Famous for their hair care products , Wella want you to experience their benefits to the fullest .
7 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 .
8 This will not occur if lack of competition enables firms to keep their prices above the lowest attainable costs of production .
9 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 .
10 It was a it was a competition between the carters to get their horses into the best condition .
11 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 .
12 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 … ’ .
13 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 .
14 The rest will have to take their chances in the biggest stampede to see a Northern Ireland game in eight years .
15 ( 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 .
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