Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1.13 Our fundamental assumption is that all pupils are entitled to an education that will provide the opportunity for them to develop to the best of their abilities a competence in and appreciation of English . |
| 2 | This may mean forcing the worst of them to merge with the best ; it will certainly mean a widening of China 's budget deficit . |
| 3 | Although this rank was that of a clerk , in the Constantian period it was applied to those officials who were responsible for the minutes of the imperial consistory and some of them rose to the highest ranks . |
| 4 | Her main work was centred at a refuge for prostitutes and the women under her charge became used to the sight of her arriving with the latest member of her growing family in her arms . |
| 5 | Glory may have departed from this earth , but faint traces or soft echoes of it persist in the unlikeliest recesses of mind and landscape . |
| 6 | I , , having been elected to the office of Lord Mayor , declare that I take thi that office upon myself and will duly and faithfully fulfil the duties of it according to the best of my judgement and ability . |
| 7 | I , , be having been elected to the office of Vice Chair , declare that I take that office upon myself and will duly and faithfully fulfil the duties of it according to the best of my judgement and ability . |
| 8 | But talent can be developed and trained and provide a sound basis for you to give of the best there is inside you . |
| 9 | It was like it fell into the greatest silence I have ever come across . |
| 10 | It would be a long time before anyone inherited — and his sons knew that sooner or later Henry would take something from them to give to the youngest of them all , John . |
| 11 | Indeed it is a credit to Wilko that the board have been confident enough in him to compete at the highest levels in the transfer market . |
| 12 | It had adopted some of the theology of sixteenth-century Reformers and some of the learning of nineteenth-century Protestant scholars , but very little of it was genuinely very modern in terms of the second half of the twentieth century , and hardly anything in it challenged in the slightest the more basic dogmas of Catholic theology , Trinitarian , incarnational and sacramental . |