Example sentences of "providing the [adj -est] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Interestingly , the manuscript regarded as providing the best text of the poem , Bibliothèque National fr.19152 , labels the work a " " fable " " in the first line while the other copies read " " fabliaus " " or " " fableaus " " , suggesting that the category of fabliau may not have been so clearly defined and recognized at this early date as it was later to become .
2 The most competitive firms providing the best service at the lowest price are the ones which should prosper .
3 Above all , we are committed to providing the best service in the business . ’
4 Therefore , we 're left with a certain pot and we must manage that the best way possible in providing the best education , not only for children in village schools , but in towns and every of large or medium size throughout this county .
5 Chester College was recently found by a Government survey to be providing the best value for money higher education in the country , beating the likes of Oxford and Cambridge .
6 Mr Clarke said social services departments would ‘ use their own , voluntary or private provision , according to which they judge the best way of providing the best quality service ’ .
7 Moreover , the former often outperform the latter ; consumer magazines commonly suggest specific mutual companies as providing the best deal and there is some evidence that they are superior in performance more generally ( see , for example , Finsinger , 1983 ) .
8 The idea is a simple one ; begin working our dwindling woodland again and we could be providing the best argument for preserving it .
9 One of the singers from the theatre had stood in the doorway declaring to the crowd who had gathered to watch that the Grenfell and Morgan boot and shoe emporium was providing the best leather goods in town .
10 Hopefully , I know we 've got problems with those er colleagues who lost their jobs since that time , but we now feel that we are providing the best advice , the best service in respect of advising members on and the acquired rights directive .
11 The optimal technique was perceived by a majority of subjects as providing the best solution , this result being supported by the analysis of solutions actually obtained .
12 The strip lights flickered again , providing the faintest luminescence .
13 Excavations at an early Holocene archaeological site in southernmost Egypt , 100km west of Abu Simbel , have yielded hundreds of carbonized seeds of sorghum and millets , with consistent radiocarbon dates of 8,000 years before present ( BP ) , thus providing the earliest evidence for the use of these plants .
14 No people can live by promises alone … preliminary work must be started for the reorganisation of the State on principles providing the highest guarantee of freedom and national self-determination in a democratic Russian Republic , based on the federal principle of a friendly family of Russian peoples where autonomous regions — Estonia among them — would constitute equal members .
15 Lichens , particularly encrusting forms , are the most prominent plants , dominant in many communities and providing the highest biomass .
16 Nigel said , ‘ We have also put enormous effort into improving availability , by investing in new machines , and by having a bank-wide commitment to providing the highest quality of service .
17 Annual global emission rates of carbon dioxide ( expressed in terms of weight of carbon ) from fossil-fuel burning were over 5 Gt C per year through the 1980s and approached 6 Gt C per year by 1990 , with oil now providing the largest contribution ( figure 6.10 ) .
18 Just under one-third of part-time farmers had some formal training , with North Yorkshire providing the largest proportion .
19 The owner , Christer von der Burg , is consolidating his Han-Shan Tang mail order business on the premises , providing the largest stock of publications on Oriental art in Europe , including publications from China , Japan and Korea .
20 In England , as elsewhere , ‘ even though their help could not be counted upon ’ , children and kin were providing the greatest share of support for the older generation of their families .
21 The annual award is normally given to a boss providing the worst pay and conditions but because of unemployment no one is making nominations .
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