Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun sg] a [noun sg] [modal v] " in BNC.
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1 | With a rate of fast return the tanning bed is the single most profitable investment a club can make . ’ |
2 | What perhaps struck her the most was that , despite all , many of them appeared to be happy , while she , Sally-Anne , who could if she wished command the most luxurious life a woman could dream of , was most desperately unhappy , and had no idea of how she might become otherwise . |
3 | Females tend to disperse themselves among the males but in cases where a male has an especially good territory a female may opt to breed with him even if he already has a mate , rather than go for one without . |
4 | This is just one way a band can build up its market in the territories it tours , from a 500- or 1,000-seat club up to a 10,000-seat arena . |
5 | Obviously , when a post can not be filled by a British executive because it requires a more cosmopolitan background a client would turn to headhunters with a strong overseas network ; and there was a general feeling that in these cases long-established major international search firms were preferable . |
6 | Later this year a version will be launched for a Hewlett Packard ‘ palmtop ’ ( which is already offered with 1-2-3 ) . |
7 | For really reliable stability a design should have a rate of closure in the Bode plot of less than 6 dB per octave and all break points of the linear approximation should be at least a decade in frequency away from the intersection corresponding to . |
8 | It did so despite the fact that Goulding J had found that an experienced salesman quickly acquired a good idea of the prices obtained by his employer 's competitors , but that such knowledge was usually only approximate and that in this field accurate information was valuable , because a difference of even one penny a pound might be important . |
9 | Increasingly , chief executives are being persuaded — by a sales pitch which asserts that the most expensive mistake a company can make is to promote the wrong executive to a key job — to hire psychometric testers to analyse their management options . |
10 | And Gemma was surely the most agreeable girl a man could wish for . |
11 | The most significant impact a manager can have on motivation and performance is to design reward systems which satisfy individuals and the objectives of the organization . |