Example sentences of "[verb] to the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does no harm to write to the nearest local residents and businesses , but generally this is a long shot . |
| 2 | Bleached bodies lie beached in the full heat , revealing sights that should never be disclosed to the closest lover let alone half of Teesside . |
| 3 | They should be designed to the highest mobility standards , making them easy and safe to move around in . |
| 4 | By 1979 energy consumption was almost back to the 1973 level but this trend was abruptly curtailed by the second oil shock which contributed to the worst recession in the UK since the Second World War . |
| 5 | As regards multilateral disarmament , the Government are fully committed to the greatest progress in the whole range of nuclear conventional , chemical and biological arms control negotiations . |
| 6 | We are committed to the highest safety and environmental standards and put great store by the contractual arrangements in place for the return of wastes . |
| 7 | Over the next three years we are committed to the biggest investment in Britain 's transport infrastructure in our history . |
| 8 | The latter , represented by people like Yves Congar , Henri de Lubac and Louis Bouyer , appealed away from the post-medieval neo-scholastic synthesis of contemporary official Catholic theology to a far more creative use of biblical and patristic sources ; it accepted the rightness of part of the classical Protestant critique of Roman Catholicism ; it fully adhered to the highest standards of modern scholarship , but in a really quite traditional way . |
| 9 | In his absence the task would fall to the best man . |
| 10 | Erm by saying it 's a priority we 're not saying it 's our only priority , we have a number of priorities and it 's it 's up to us to in debate with the housing corporation er , to come to the best agreements for Harlow . |
| 11 | With their rudimentary networks , Eastern Europe could leap-frog to the latest technology — though that is a daydream , given that no country in the region has the expertise or the money to do so . |
| 12 | The advance man knows the way to get VIPs in and out of the hall and how to manage their entrances and exits to the best effect . |
| 13 | Although this rank was that of a clerk , in the Constantian period it was applied to those officials who were responsible for the minutes of the imperial consistory and some of them rose to the highest ranks . |
| 14 | And it says that 's what 's happening to the poorest communities , the poorest countries in the Third World . |
| 15 | So if you really want to the best for you dog , give him a good rub down . |
| 16 | The comfortable bedrooms have all been decorated to the highest standards , and all have a telephone and radio ; most also have a television and minibar , and some are air-conditioned . |
| 17 | ‘ We 've come to the best club in the country and won . |
| 18 | ‘ We 've come to the best club in the country and won . |
| 19 | SHOULD the worst come to the worst , John and Norma Major will at least be able to make a dignified departure from Downing Street . |
| 20 | ‘ We all feared this might happen and now it has come to the worst , ’ said one church-goer arriving for the service . |
| 21 | At this even the boldest goat fled to the nearest hut for fear of reprisal , and from the cover of the walls watched the frustrated officer screaming at sentries , Poles , hut and bicycle in turn . |
| 22 | His voice sank to the finest whispering thread of sound . |
| 23 | This practice is not confined to the largest companies . |
| 24 | It was they whose immediate vision was one of attempting to escape from the grind of poverty , and whose children were confined to the lowest levels of education offered in the elementary schools and the secondary , or ‘ post-Hadow ’ , schools . |
| 25 | In this connection it is perhaps significant that the boundary between the parish and Snodland was the old track or Ridgeway , now largely destroyed by chalk quarries , which , keeping to the highest and driest line over the downs is thought to have formed the main east-west route at this period , crossing the River Medway at Holborough as Mr Margery suggested . |
| 26 | A man followed some distance behind her , keeping to the darkest shadows . |
| 27 | But if anybody refuses to believe that about 270 B.C. Lycophron could say about the Romans : " And the fame of the race of my ancestors shall thereafter be exalted to the highest by their descendants who shall with their spears win the foremost crown of glory , obtaining the sceptre and monarchy of earth and sea " ( transl . |
| 28 | Doyle 's eyes flickered to the nearest table behind Rosie . |
| 29 | Two of the cast fainted and most of the rest repaired to the nearest bar . |
| 30 | Even in China where the working of jade was carried to the highest pitch of sophistication the lapidaries continued to rely on abrasion for working their material . |