Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [art] [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ca n't deliver these resources overnight but I can say that when we talk about building the Best Banking and Financial Services Group , we do n't simply mean the best for our shareholders . |
| 2 | Management in particular is not about the preservation of the status quo , it is about maintaining the highest rate of change that the organization and the people within it can stand . |
| 3 | Data analysts must not be put off using the best techniques available in case they are misunderstood , but they have an important responsibility to explain what they have done to try to ensure that misunderstandings do not arise . |
| 4 | A rich , moist soil and an open situation he considered ideal for producing the best blooms . |
| 5 | Considerable effort was spent first on locating the appropriate soap powder and the pharmaceutical glycerine , and then on experimenting with proportionate mixtures and blowing techniques for producing the strongest bubbles . |
| 6 | One of the groups which developed the technique is using it to investigate chemistry ; the other is claiming a record for generating the shortest wavelength of coherent ( laser-like ) light . |
| 7 | And for cooking the tastiest casseroles , there 's a special ‘ Slow-set ’ facility which lets you leave the food to cook itself at a very low temperature over a long period . |
| 8 | This is a fine listed Georgian building standing in half an acre of grounds with a stream — once famous for driving the greatest concentration of water mills in Great Britain . |
| 9 | Michael Schumacher of Germany will start on the front row with his Benetton-Ford Schumacher after producing the second-best time of the qualifications , 1:21 . |
| 10 | Clothes and textiles giant Courtaulds Textiles spun annual pretax profits of £42.2m last year , up from £40.3m , after weathering the worst effects of the recession . |
| 11 | ‘ After climbing the highest peak , who would seek foothills ? ’ |
| 12 | After becoming the oldest 100 metres winner in Olympic history , he said : ‘ I 'm 32 , going on 23 , and I feel pretty good . |
| 13 | We invented this game after investigating the latest scientific research into pheromones , the sex hormones which help us find and identify our partners . |
| 14 | He missed the second half of last season after undergoing the latest in a series of knee operations but is now determined to improve on only 12 first-class wickets . |
| 15 | Because , after getting the best of a long hard duel with Urizen , Goodshot Rich flew the last to win a thrilling race all out . |
| 16 | Wimpey is launching the cash-raising exercise just three months after reporting the worst loss in its 100-year history , a £112.4m deficit in 1992 . |
| 17 | Wimpey is launching the cash-raising exercise just three months after reporting the worst loss in its 100-year history , a £112.4m deficit in 1992 . |
| 18 | Subject : Just after joining the greatest mailing list in the world … |
| 19 | It will decide whether to impose a ‘ red alert ’ , for the first time since 1975 , after collating the latest figures today . |
| 20 | Many waverers must have reached for their chequebooks and signed on with a green campaign organization after hearing the latest pronouncement assuring them that there really was something to worry about . |
| 21 | Dr Allan said the two men were bearing up well and were in better condition than had been expected after making the longest unsupported polar trip and the first unsupported crossing of the Antarctic landmass . |
| 22 | His task was made easier when Marcel Albers , the second-placed Dutchman , after setting the fastest lap , was forced to go into the pit with electrical problems . |
| 23 | Another Williams-bred youngster , Pond Curlew , which receives start of eight metres , looks like being favourite for the Easter Handicap after clocking the fastest time of 27.44 , though he takes on Florida Bill , unbeaten in three rounds of the competition , also off eight metres , tonight . |
| 24 | The Elton Committee recommended that the head teacher should take the lead in defining the aims of the school in relation to standards of behaviour , create the conditions for establishing the widest possible measure of agreement on these standards and how they will be achieved , and ensure that these standards are consistently applied throughout the school . |
| 25 | Mr Delors has been widely blamed for causing the latest crisis . |
| 26 | From 1927 he , later supported by his friend ( Sir ) William Stanier [ q.v. ] , advocated the building of a national locomotive testing station capable of handling the largest locomotives and in 1937 work on the station was started at Rugby . |
| 27 | In doing so , he failed to appreciate the political impact on the British , who had put their faith in Skybolt as a way of maintaining the greatest measure of independence for their nuclear deterrent that was practicable at reasonable cost . |
| 28 | It is very important that we recognize the possibility of accepting the best features of comprehensive schools while getting rid of the worst , remembering with reasonable humility that the schools were introduced in the first place as experimental , and that all the trial and error may not yet be over . |
| 29 | DEC has never used a Western Research Labs-designed computer architecture , although the unit was originally set up to find ways of building the fastest possible computers . |
| 30 | He had an intuitive capability of bringing the best out in people . |