Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [verb] the [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dun & Bradstreet Software Corp has launched the first of its Unix applications from the former Management Science America base in Atlanta . |
| 2 | A BABY ostrich called Linford after the Olympic flyer has become the first of his kind to be born in Britain outside a zoo . |
| 3 | In many ways , the tragedy had brought the three of them closer together . |
| 4 | The spinning streamers of fog trawled for sunlight that would n't be here for a while , and the snow had piled the purest of pillows at the foot of an ice-cliff . |
| 5 | In West Penwith the Climbers Club have published the first of two new guides to the area , both written by Des Hannigan . |
| 6 | ‘ In where , Cassie ? ’ he whispered , his laughter threatening to get the better of him . |
| 7 | As well as planning transport and development together , the Plan seeks to conserve the best of our towns and countryside . |
| 8 | The organisers of the conference had amassed the hundreds of rights suggested under 17 different principles , hoping eventually to amalgamate them into a single-page charter and a declaration similar to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights . |
| 9 | The Purchaser seeks to have the best of both worlds . |
| 10 | The creature has uttered the direst of threats — not against my life , which is of little account , but against Elizabeth 's . |
| 11 | This method hopes to get the best of both worlds : stocks are transferred at variable cost ( good for decision making ) , and profits can be made by each division ( good for motivation ) . |
| 12 | This kind of no-strings-attached use of sex seems to combine the best of both worlds , leaving a woman free to pursue her career and a man unshackled by the commitments of a heavy mortgage and all the other responsibilities that go with a family . |
| 13 | Survival means continuity through time … and success means making the best of your opportunities within a given time-frame . |
| 14 | George 's murder call had sounded the phoniest of the lot ; it had certainly been the most amateurish . |
| 15 | The UK distributor has performed the best of all overseas market , so well in fact that Aldus have set up a UK subsidiary . |
| 16 | As the nation prepares to honour the dead of two world wars on Remembrance Day this Sunday , two grieving fathers claim their sons ' memories are being neglected . |
| 17 | The billposter attempting to paste the second of his ‘ Cooper and Co 's Teas ’ posters on the hoarding watched the paper slowly curl back from the wall and drop on to the ground . |
| 18 | Today , if we pose the difficult question of the relation of poststructuralism to postmodernism , one distinction between them that might be drawn would be that whereas postmodernism seems to include the problematic of the place of Western culture in relation to non-Western cultures , poststructuralism as a category seems not to imply such a perspective . |
| 19 | Thinking fatigue had got the better of his tired mind , Jack Hayden did not worry unduly until the following Monday morning when a porter who had been working on the station Platform came to the mess room and saw a strange figure looking at Mr Hayden . |
| 20 | IF THE inflation figures had been published a couple of days earlier , the Labour party would no doubt have made the most of a fall which was far short of expectations . |
| 21 | Has not the Prime Minister managed to get the worst of all worlds by vetoing what he should have accepted — the social upgrading that we all want — and by half accepting what he should have vetoed — economic and monetary union , which will be deeply damaging and which will lock both this country and Europe into a decade of deflation ? |
| 22 | A light rain shower had hurried the last of the rubber-neck tourists off the streets and the restaurants and sex shows ( mostly on video these days ) were switching off their come-hither lights . |
| 23 | The scope for the voluntary sector and not for profit activity in the nineteen nineties is immense , it will not be expansion just for its own sake , but principled entrepreneurial activity aimed to make the most of opportunities on behalf of the community . |
| 24 | By l , 227,000 votes to l , 083,000 he was allowed to speak , but by general agreement failed to make the most of this opportunity . |
| 25 | KPMG Peat Marwick Midland Region has become the first of the Big Six firms ' practices to gain the Investors in People award . |
| 26 | An excellent booklet called Making the Most of Your Heating is published by the Energy Efficiency Office , as well as other information that will help you to do a lot of insulating work yourself . |
| 27 | But then her pride and her curiosity had got the better of her again , and she remembered why she had agreed to the meeting in the first place . |
| 28 | The High Court in Inverness heard that PC John Smith 's curiosity had got the better of him when he learned that a Murdo MacIver from his home town of Stornoway was in custody . |
| 29 | Her watch had stopped and she was n't sure exactly what time it was , but she was willing to bet Fen had made the most of his opportunities . |
| 30 | The Labour Party have published the first of a series of papers showing their commitment to the craft industry . |