Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [verb] for the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone going beyond silent forms of disaffection had still to be prepared for the worst from the servants and supporters of a regime now in extremis . |
| 2 | He had always claimed to be acting for the best ; not selfishly , but for all men , as the great sage Confucius had said a ruler should act . |
| 3 | THE right-wing opposition alliance appeared last night to have crushed France 's ruling Socialist Party and to be headed for the biggest Conservative victory in France 's history . |
| 4 | In negotiating this or that pay increase , they must be supposed to be settling for the best terms they can get in all the circumstances of the negotiation . |
| 5 | This method has been used with success in the study of the coinage of archaic and classical Greece , where , for instance , the evidence of several large hoards has enabled a fairly detailed sequence and chronology to be established for the earliest Greek silver coins , made in the fifty years or so before about 475BC . |
| 6 | Begin the list with the projects that have been waiting to be finished for the longest period of time . |