Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the kingdom of the Franks which was to exercise most influence for the longest period of time . |
| 2 | But as soon as Nate heard about the latest strike , that was it . |
| 3 | Our shop at work has sold out of the Torygraph today , so we may have to wait for the latest standings . |
| 4 | The pack will pull the carcass apart , competing for the best of the kill , and Fido plays tug-of-war games , hoping to win the toy . |
| 5 | East European countries are thus competing for the best western companies just as western companies are competing for contracts . |
| 6 | He was starting to appear distinctly shopworn , Lucy noted ; he seemed to have bought himself a new shirt , but a dip-through in a hotel washbasin did n't exactly make for the best possible finish . |
| 7 | The mixture fizzed like mad , you swallowed the concoction and with little delay sprinted for the nearest lavatory , hoping that your speed would be faster than the deadly powder . |
| 8 | Like Las Vegas money machines — where lights whirl , the jackpot flashes and the sound of cascading money plays for the smallest win — so the sprung plywood floor of the wrestling ring thuds and echoes with exaggerated effect . |
| 9 | ‘ But you ca n't be generous , you have to go for the best person for the job . |
| 10 | I hope you will choose a different path — to go forward , not back ; to go for the best , knowing that Britain can be the best and do it best . |
| 11 | Nothing else was right , you had to go for the best in life , and I suppose we 've always felt that . ’ |
| 12 | Not only do you need to know where to go for the best prices , but you need information on when shops open and how to get there . |
| 13 | The next hurdle for Petrochemicals will be to go for the highest level Q1 Gold award which will involve another step up in performance . |
| 14 | Tools are expensive , but it is often a false economy to go for the cheapest . |
| 15 | As it also happens to be the only drinker on the Cherwell until you get to Islip , the murderous conspiracies and dark plots which so excite the Kidlington Kops amount to nothing more than the fact that when I opened my curtains that morning I saw the sun shining in a cloudless blue sky and decided to go for the longest and most pleasant of the river walks open to me . |
| 16 | For the past 30 years Aegina has been producing about the best pistachios in the world . |
| 17 | Two pupils from Macmillan College in Middlesbrough showed Mr Fallon how they used the CDRom to search for the latest information about the fall of the Berlin Wall , the construction of the Channel Tunnel , and pollution in Teesside for their school projects . |
| 18 | Top awards are given for the best net and best gross scores with over £200 in cash prizes . |
| 19 | Its body is sheer muscle , it could double as the severest whip . |
| 20 | Of course you always fear for the worst , but she was reunited with her child , ’ Ms Davis said . |
| 21 | I would personally like to see more erm sort of grading of erm more , more higher standards being set by the sort of head offices of people who own things like chains of motorway service areas , not catering for the lowest common denominator , but aiming to really have an absolutely top quality service , cleanliness , everything , in all parts of their business . |
| 22 | Already in his first novel , Boccalone ( 1979 ) , widely recognized as the best to come out of the youth movement of the late 1970s , Palandri had shown an extraordinary ability to create sufficient space for his characters , ‘ enrico ’ and ‘ anna ’ and their friends , to speak for themselves without being overwhelmed by the surrounding clutter or by the pretensions of ‘ literature ’ , pretensions from which the narrator keeps his distance : ‘ I do n't want to make big speeches , I never did when I was with anna and I was better off ; I just want to recount incidents and let the rest come out of that , if there actually is anything ’ ( Palandri 1979 : 124 ) . |
| 23 | Laurel , in effect , made two contributions to the partnership : as Hardy was quick to concede , Laurel was the creator and rigorous controller of their comedy , as well as a member of what was widely recognized as the best comic double act of its time . |
| 24 | Those of a pike have become elegant filmy sculls , rotating slowly back and forth from a joint within the body , so that the fish can compensate for the tiniest variation of current and hang above a rock as though it were suspended from an invisible wire . |
| 25 | ( a ) 25% to 50% of library users use the catalogue ; ( b ) students account for the greatest proportion of the user population ; ( c ) the catalogue is used predominantly for known-item searching and use increases with users ' educational level ; ( d ) public library users do more subject searching than academic library users . |
| 26 | Key resources are technical personnel and aircraft spare parts which account for the largest share of the maintenance budget . |
| 27 | The net result is that enterprises with some form of linkage to the global market now account for the largest part of the global production structure — in raw materials , manufactures and services . |
| 28 | Teachers ' salaries account for the largest proportion of education spending in all types of school , though this varies from around 70% in primary and secondary schools to 59% in special schools . |
| 29 | He shows , for instance , that " A branch curved downwards over the water " could have easily occurred in the language of Lok , while " He had very quickly broken off the lowest branches " would be highly deviant . |
| 30 | His memo to his valet , then the late Stephen Barry , relating to the meeting is typical of the elaborate planning undertaken for the simplest royal date . |