Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Go to own in the best of British tradition and spend a month in the country . |
| 2 | I dread to think of the thousands of women who stretch their limbs to unhealthy lengths in a vain bid to attain taut buttocks and breasts . |
| 3 | As a matter of urgency I think chairman , be because if we 're going to apply , we need to apply for the first of April |
| 4 | We just have to play to the best of our ability and if that 's good enough we may get something out of it . ’ |
| 5 | This was recognised by Sir Ernest Gowers in The Complete Plain Words : [ L ] egal draftsmen have to ensure to the best of their ability that what they say will be found to mean precisely what they intended , even after it has been subjected to detailed and possibly hostile scrutiny by acute legal minds … |