Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The connection time was very tight and there were some weeks when I rarely caught the 7 o'clock bus to Ferryhill and had to wait for the 7.15am bus which takes a longer route and delayed my arrival even more . |
| 2 | ‘ MPs do n't seem to go for the very expensive end of the Indian restaurant market , ’ says Peter Grove . |
| 3 | they are between jobs and are taking time to search for the most appropriate job with the highest wage ( search unemployment ) ; |
| 4 | To search for the most appropriate policy-tools which will enable the government to achieve its economic objectives more satisfactorily . |
| 5 | Restrictive practices concerned with crewing nationality are to continue for the most part until the end of the century . |
| 6 | Mr Makepeace , who dreaded public places where he might meet the boys of Burleigh , sat longer than any , pretending to go through the disgracefully scrappy mathematics homework that his classes saw fit to throw his way . |
| 7 | Erm , my Lord I do n't think it 's necessary to go through the rather complicated headland potentially gives you though I can see it from the er . |
| 8 | They felt it would be a good idea if they extended these ideas to the subject of physics , and we were asked at the university to try for the very first time to run a set of these master classes for children aged thirteen to fourteen in physics , to see if we could transmit some of the excitement and pleasure of doing physics to children at that crucial stage in their scientific development in schools . |
| 9 | Personnel : Salary differentials 20–30 per cent over comparable civilian work tend to siphon off the better qualified . |
| 10 | Travel and feature writers from all over the world had stayed in Crystal Springs , going back to their desks to write for the Most part glowing reports . |
| 11 | He had now formed a plan to write about the falsely sunny period before the Great War . |
| 12 | She prided herself on her ability to sift through the most innocent conversations and turn them into major scandals . |
| 13 | It was thought that the kind of strong reliance on grammatical structuring used in HARPY was necessary to compensate for the generally poor level of acoustic-phonetic processing achieved during the DARPA project ( see Klatt 1977 ) . |
| 14 | In order to maximize the use of existing resources , the enforcement regime must impose heavy sanctions so as to compensate for the relatively low risk of detection and prosecution . |
| 15 | CPRW must urge a return to responsible planning to provide for the really needy while protecting the open countryside . |
| 16 | Sir Martin ( later Lord ) Charteris , who became the Queen 's private secretary in the seventies , had gone to work for the then Princess Elizabeth because his family were friends of the Lascelles . |
| 17 | At Notting Hill , Carnival was rained on but still managed to struggle past the 7pm curfew in parts , though sensible southerners spent Monday in the marquee at the Full Circle all-dayer . |
| 18 | More importantly , she continued to struggle with the increasingly demanding role of Mrs Hoffman . |
| 19 | He had barely a scratch upon him , he was hardly blown by comparison with these , and he stood off while they breathed , and at the last lighted down from his tired horse , to meet with the most valiant on equal terms . |
| 20 | My subject was French history , and although my focus was on a relatively obscure piece of ecclesiastical history I had the good fortune to work with the most genial and scholarly of humanists , Professor Alfred Cobban of the University of London . |
| 21 | It is also notable that where a chairman or chief executive has been brought in from outside to those organisations , this may be followed by many changes in senior management and so , from the headhunters ' point of view , putting a chief executive into an older-style organisation is usually an opportunity for them to work with the newly appointed chief executive to build the new senior management team . |
| 22 | All the most popular colour specification systems are provided , including CIELAB , Munsell , NCS and Pantone , allowing the designer to work in the most convenient manner . |
| 23 | Even if there are relatively good overall stocks of rural council houses , they may be concentrated mainly into a few larger settlements , and persons who need to work in the more remote or smaller settlements can be severely disadvantaged . |
| 24 | A policy decision was taken not to bid in the standard commercial power electronics market , but to concentrate in the more specialised nuclear and petrochemical sector where the company 's strengths lie . |
| 25 | The light seemed to fade from the brightly shimmering early evening as she heard him , and her heart felt as if an iron band was tightening mercilessly about it . |
| 26 | Latest offering to appear from the rapidly expanding Camden ‘ lurch ’ subculture , so named after a divvy dance , although it does n't quite live up the press release 's boast of being ‘ the last noise that will cause heavens to crack and earth to rip asunder ’ ( ! ) . |
| 27 | Latest offering to appear from the rapidly expanding Camden ‘ lurch ’ subculture , so named after a divvy dance , although it does n't quite live up the press release 's boast of being ‘ the last noise that will cause heavens to crack and earth to rip asunder ’ ( ! ) . |
| 28 | With an estimated 250,000 refugees from more dangerous parts of Mozambique living in makeshift villages along the protected corridors , the greatest threat appeared to come from the increasingly desperate shortage of food , following the failure of the rains . |
| 29 | However , Tizard does acknowledge that the issue is complicated by social inequality — children who come into care tend to come from the most powerless sector of society . |
| 30 | A remarkable illustration of the explanatory convenience of egoism is the concept of the ‘ selfish gene ’ , through which the rational egoism which is so difficult to find in the hopelessly illogical world of men is finally tracked down in our ultimate genetic constituents . |