Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [art] [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sandy Seymour was among drivers , managers and police officers helping to publicise the latest aspect of Operation Blade , the campaign by Strathclyde Police to clamp down on knife crime . |
| 2 | I might 've guessed the worst when the scrum fell apart for me like the Red Sea . |
| 3 | Often sounding like there 's no one driving , Mark 's recipe for recording involves bringing the barest bones of a song into the studio , letting the musicians bend it , stretch it , squash it , cook it and generally rip it to shreds , before setting about trying to sort out the sparks from the farts . |
| 4 | Since fencing is expensive , he will want to enclose the largest possible area with his 36m of fencing . |
| 5 | The fed state replaces fasting activity during ingestion of a nutrient meal and this motility state was also examined using the MBEST scanning technique . |
| 6 | Safrane 's design has been optimised to provide the best in passenger protection and the car has also been crash tested at 35 mph into an oblique barrier rather than the standard 30 mph ‘ head-on ’ impact test . |
| 7 | An all-female catering unit from Hainault , Essex , has won the first stage of a nationwide competition being held by Sutcliffe Catering to find the best Indian theme day at one of its units . |
| 8 | Cider makers and drinkers have been gathering to find the best farmhouse cider in Britain . |
| 9 | Every one of us , we would n't devote our time , our precious time serving in local government if we did n't believe in local government and did n't want to provide the best possible services to the people of this city . |
| 10 | Specialist departments combine to provide the widest possible spectrum of coverage . |
| 11 | What makes us want to know the worst ? |
| 12 | At present they are made by the politician or the hospital administrator responding to the group which can shout the loudest or bring to bear the keenest political acumen . |
| 13 | Although buyers will want to secure the best possible deal for themselves , sellers will only want to sell if they too think that they will obtain a good deal . |
| 14 | Such families have been well placed to secure the best contacts and the best education , and rising young stars have often married into them , so social prestige and heredity have continued to count for a considerable amount . |
| 15 | With influential links to central government the Eldonian Community in Vauxhall has developed the largest new-build housing co-operative in the country . |
| 16 | The Great Court of the Citadel of Famagusta was one hundred and sixty feet long , and built to accommodate the grandest of ceremonials . |
| 17 | Of the dailies , Today 's circulation has registered the worst seasonal drop , falling to 466,631 from 513,673 . |
| 18 | Especially when the usual Boys ’ Club up there can hardly wait to see the highest-ranking female in the industry 's history come a cropper . ’ |
| 19 | The creature has uttered the direst of threats — not against my life , which is of little account , but against Elizabeth 's . |
| 20 | IBM has posted the largest ever annual loss in US corporate history — $4.96 billion . |
| 21 | The hoist has a capacity of 50 tons for boats of FAB 3's dimensions and both it and the dock are designed to accommodate the largest lifeboats at present envisaged . |
| 22 | I could list many individual examples of how the tax has treated the poorest and most vulnerable in society . |
| 23 | At the back of the hotel the army suddenly produced a generator designed to penetrate the deepest slumber and then added a searchlight which they shone , lighting up not only the surrounding countryside in their search for Red Brigade terrorists , but our hotel rooms as well . |
| 24 | This exhibition is organised to promote the best of Scottish design . |
| 25 | In place of bureaucracy , revolutionary leaders would simply need to borrow the best models furnished by the advanced countries and employ existing functionaries in the service of the new state . |
| 26 | ‘ While we want to preserve the best of the past , we do not want to build a monument to it . ’ |
| 27 | The Agency has painted the brightest picture of Wales around the world . |
| 28 | The District Council has accommodated the highest proportion of Greater York growth of all the districts surrounding York over the last ten years , and therefore I think it likely that it would expected to accommodate the largest proportion of the fourteen hundred dwellings that would be accommodated in the new settlement , erm I do not think that any of the settlements or that there is sufficient land within the Southern Ryedale area to accommodate that level of development without adversely affecting character of the settlements , or compromising greenbelt objectives , as I mentioned this morning , and also I question whether or not erm whether th most of the settlements in the Southern Ryedale area have only a minimal s minimal service base anyway on which to tack any large housing growths , and I do n't necessarily foresee any subsequent rise in the service base of those settlements as a result of the housing being added on to them . |
| 29 | If you want to carry the smallest possible quantity of water or get the best possible price in the market , the judgements you make are important in a way those made in a water tray or school shop can never be . |
| 30 | Chancellor Kohl has placed the heaviest burden of paying for unification on the average wage-earner . |