Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our shop at work has sold out of the Torygraph today , so we may have to wait for the latest standings . |
| 2 | ‘ But you ca n't be generous , you have to go for the best person for the job . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Nothing else was right , you had to go for the best in life , and I suppose we 've always felt that . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The next hurdle for Petrochemicals will be to go for the highest level Q1 Gold award which will involve another step up in performance . |
| 7 | Tools are expensive , but it is often a false economy to go for the cheapest . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Pepe , the best veteran , owned by Carol Stone of Rowledge , joined Kate Harbon and Bessie to carry off the best pair prize . |
| 11 | When pasting your template on the piece of veneer selected for the outline — usually a dark wood — try to arrange for the thinnest parts of the design to run along the grain . |
| 12 | I want to know about the nearest sports centre and the types of sport which go on there . |
| 13 | They want to know about the latest inventions . |
| 14 | On the radio link Richie reported that he had scored a net 69 , which was likely to stand as the best score of the day . |
| 15 | The BDA 's involvement in Europe is from a historical point of view likely to be seen in years to come as the finest achievement of the last few years . |
| 16 | The best consultants are as hard to find as the best managers |
| 17 | Should the marked chromosome constitute the inactive X , however , it is reasonably easy to observe as the darkest and longest chromosome in the cell . |
| 18 | The incentives to seek and follow advice , to think long-term rather than short , and to work for the best results at 16+ are all clearly set out . |
| 19 | Two lawyers are likely to differ about the best interpretation of the practices of legislation or precedent in a particular case because their general political and moral convictions differ . |
| 20 | Or perhaps she had sense to realise that in an entrenched battle she was likely to come off the worst . |
| 21 | Does he further agree that that needs to be a Europe which is not only open and ready to trade fully with the rest of the world , but also ready to grapple with the greatest danger facing European stability , a danger which was scarcely mentioned at Maastricht , and which must be faced by ensuring that the nations of eastern Europe make it all the way to open democracies and that the vast and scattered nuclear arsenal of the former Soviet Union is brought under proper control and we prevent a great proliferation of nuclear weapons in the successor states ? |
| 22 | India 's young idealists of the early Seventies gave up bright futures to work with the poorest . |
| 23 | A family with many sons could farm its land successfully without the burden of paying farm workers and could if necessary send a son to work in the nearest town or city to earn money to pay back debts or to buy more land . |
| 24 | Comedies continued to pull in the biggest audiences , followed by thrillers and adventure films . |
| 25 | They have got to demand in the politest possible way , but in the most determined way , that they should be treated as responsible citizens whatever their walk of life People take others at their own evaluation . |
| 26 | It would appear that there was some increase in the marriage rates among those in their early twenties during the early 1920s , perhaps because of the delays caused by the First World War , and after 1934 , when the domestic economy began to revive from the worst excesses of the slump . |
| 27 | When we seek a context for B , it may not be wise always to work within the largest parse tree containing B. The contexts found from large trees are too specific . |
| 28 | He says they ought to jump in the nearest river ! |
| 29 | ‘ I never saw a play before , ’ said Gabriel , to indicate in the politest possible way that he did not understand one word of what Lucie was telling him . |
| 30 | In the afternoons there was little to see other than the skateboarders who came to clatter back and forth in the bowl-shaped space under the Festival Hall , making a sound that was somewhere between a roller derby and a kendo match ; but as evening came on , bags and boxes would start to appear in the best-lighted spots under the concrete . |