Example sentences of "[verb] for [art] [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 | Our shop at work has sold out of the Torygraph today , so we may have to wait for the latest standings . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | East European countries are thus competing for the best western companies just as western companies are competing for contracts . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ But you ca n't be generous , you have to go for the best person for the job . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Nothing else was right , you had to go for the best in life , and I suppose we 've always felt that . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The next hurdle for Petrochemicals will be to go for the highest level Q1 Gold award which will involve another step up in performance . |
| 13 | Tools are expensive , but it is often a false economy to go for the cheapest . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Top awards are given for the best net and best gross scores with over £200 in cash prizes . |
| 17 | Of course you always fear for the worst , but she was reunited with her child , ’ Ms Davis said . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ( 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 . |
| 21 | Key resources are technical personnel and aircraft spare parts which account for the largest share of the maintenance budget . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I had fallen for the oldest James Brown/James Brown joke in the book . |
| 26 | Surely she had n't almost fallen for the oldest trick in the book ! |
| 27 | One presumes Waterloo then asked for the best of three for just qualifying for Bath is worth a minimum of £1,500 . |
| 28 | As he asked for the latest report , Marshka thought about the policeman and the Englishman . |
| 29 | Dawn Adams and Ann Welsh received the Charles Whiteside memorial trophies for their 1500 displays , with the Norman Graves award for the best boys middle distance win going to Liverpool 's Paul Lamb . |
| 30 | It was all intended for the best . |