Example sentences of "[vb infin] [art] [adj] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 We would glean the last of the coffee but hardly got paid anything .
2 The Chartists would liberate the Irish as a byproduct of their struggle for power in British .
3 does that mean that the assessment for each church will remain the same for a couple of years ?
4 Hence , the set of critical columns will remain the same throughout a sequence of tableaux optimal over degenerate intervals .
5 Virgin 's sale of one quarter of its music business to the entertainment and leisure giant , Fujisankei , ensures that it will remain the last of the world 's independent record companies — for the time being , at least .
6 We must make the best of an occasion which has overtaken us but which neither of us would want , given the choice . ’
7 I do n't respect O'Connor because she suggests that decent working people just give up everything , and because she does n't genuinely make the best of the power she HAS got .
8 The young man 's brother wrote to Lord Panmure to see if David could make the best of the situation in which he found himself by obtaining a midshipman 's place .
9 Oh well , you can only make the best of the thing you 've got and that 's the best thing to do rather than
10 George will make the most of the chance to unwind in the Australian sunshine — it 's spring over there .
11 Where possible , there would be ramps , so special-needs children can make the most of the playground , along with double-width slides , bridges with handrails ( so children can pull themselves along ) , and swing beds .
12 She 'd better make the most of the occasion and put her views on marriage more forcibly once she returned home .
13 What 's the point in our bickering , when we could simply relax and make the most of the situation ? ’
14 Can you make the most of the week and the wonderful opportunity we 'll have for collecting in Tesco stores .
15 And the council 's housing department is asking tenants thinking of moving on to help them make the most of the housing stock by giving early notice when they intend to leave .
16 At the other end of the weights here , he can make the most of the weight and fitness concession he gets from Keep Talking .
17 After that has been discovered the temperance reformer may decide that the corkscrew was made for a bad purpose , and the communist may think the same about the cathedral .
18 And now all of them have months which are always the same length of four weeks exactly four weeks so you 'd always know the first of the month would be a Sunday or whatever day you choose to start on and the seventh would always be a Sunday and the fourteenth would be a Sunday and so on .
19 In this section I shall explore the strongest of the range of holist positions — the view that there is no place at all for individualist explanations of the social world .
20 The will often buy the cheapest on the market and throw it away when the element is worn out .
21 Brian Barnes , the man who beat Jack Nicklaus twice in a single day , could introduce a new-look to the Senior 's Tour in Britain .
22 I trust you will bring the above to the attention of your committee when they meet to consider the application .
23 I trust you will bring the above to the attention of your committee when they meet to consider the application .
24 ‘ Although we 're currently in the trough of the cycle , there 's no doubt we have assets at our disposal across all our businesses which will allow us to take on and beat the best of the competition .
25 He should refer the following to the Computer Group Manager :
26 " They made us carry the injured into the station .
27 ‘ Any reasonable jury who returned a not guilty verdict on the manslaughter charge would do the same on the arson charge .
28 If chain shot were capable of removing a ship 's rigging it should do the same for the jungle .
29 It will do the same for the Falcon 50 when deliveries commence in 1979 , and will also handle retrofits to 20G standard .
30 Mazda says that , where the Xedos broke new ground in the executive saloon class , the new model will do the same among the prestige cars , whatever that means exactly .
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