Example sentences of "to [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The idea is to give up the day job and retreat to darkest Suffolk , ’ he said wistfully . |
| 2 | ‘ Not only can we match any skin , from lightest to darkest , ’ he says , ‘ but we can give any woman the exact combination of texture , weight and coverage that she wants in a foundation or powder . |
| 3 | For everyone who lost his faith , there must have been at least another who went to outcast London or to darkest Africa to convert the faint and hungry heathen ; there was a great deal of Christian confidence , and not simply a Church in retreat before agnostic scientists . |
| 4 | On the personal side , there was very little about Cawthorne except that he was the son of a Colonel in the Parachute Regiment now retired to darkest Wiltshire . |
| 5 | When inadequate response occurs or there is difficulty in compliance owing to the need to ingest a large bulk of exchange resins , a further agent may be required ( e.g. , bezafibrate ) . |
| 6 | Someone eating an average diet and drinking unfiltered tap water is likely to ingest at least a hundred different synthetic chemicals every day — see pp 305–10 . |
| 7 | Its efforts to ingest the last scattered parings of modern existence seemed half-hearted , as its voice rose to a crescendo as if to bewail its incapability and incompetence . |
| 8 | As the campaign proceeded , I kept quiet as I began to have a vision of some grisly post-polling day ceremony in which I would be on a platform like a performance artist from the sixties , vomiting and gagging while attempting to ingest yet another page : ‘ You 're doing okay . |
| 9 | Two speechless simian Servitors attended him , one to ingest his waste and cleanse him , the other to nourish him with its own enriched blood and shift his cart from window to window — from which he gazed out , praying for an exploration vessel of his Chapter to pass this way . |
| 10 | Higher education was available at the University of Hanoi where some Vietnamese students were introduced to revolutionary nationalism/national communism : although many more were able to ingest ideology and political doctrines in France itself . |
| 11 | In fact , during pregnancy , she becomes able to ingest and utilise more of the necessary substance than is required by the child alone so that by the end of pregnancy she will be better off for such substances as nitrogen , calcium etc. than she was at the beginning . |
| 12 | The difficult time is immediately after metamorphosis , when they must have live food small enough to ingest . |
| 13 | I stared at it , conscious of the big man 's arm encircling mine with the coiled hunger of an anaconda about to ingest . |
| 14 | In those on parenteral nutrition ( n=12 ) we gave the maximum amount of milk the patients were able to ingest without symptoms , and at the end of the test we emptied the gastric content via their gastrostomies . |
| 15 | Her old scarf , purple rayon printed with black flowers , she would demote to second-best . |
| 16 | Marketing is a powerful management tool through which energy , resources and skills can be focussed to greatest effect . |
| 17 | And he wants to see a careful scrutiny to make sure that the existing money is used to greatest effect . |
| 18 | The task of management is to use these to greatest effect . |
| 19 | Video Guide for teachers , with practical suggestions on how to use the video to greatest effect |
| 20 | But much more needs to be done to co-ordinate effort if limited resources are to be used to greatest effect . |
| 21 | Committal proceedings are supposed to test the soundness of the prosecution 's case but , on the whole , nothing of the kind is achieved because defence lawyers prefer to reserve their probing of the police case for the trial , where they may deploy the tactics of surprise to greatest effect . |
| 22 | There 's also want more money to cheapest in the country and I say good and I hope we can fit it in this budget time and I hope we all support this , for this . |
| 23 | This synkinematic , footwall intrusive suite constitutes the northeastern part of South Mountains and includes ( from oldest to youngest ) South Mountains granodiorite ( Tsm ) , Telegraph Pass granite ( Ttp ) , felsic dykes ( Tfd ) and microdiorite dykes ( Tmd ) . |
| 24 | These tasks appear to be done better at night with a general decline throughout the daytime to lowest values in the early evening . |
| 25 | City : Nikkei slithers to lowest since 1986 |
| 26 | two compartment main body with zipped dividing panel and drawstring valance top — access to lowest compartment is by semi-circular zip ; large lid pocket with rear zip . |
| 27 | Reducing to lowest terms |
| 28 | unc We call this " cancelling to lowest terms " . |
| 29 | From pool path is less clear but continue forward heading to lowest point of shoulder ahead , from where clear path leads to another lake . |
| 30 | Modes of a particular symmetry species are numbered consecutively from highest to lowest frequency ; thus ν 1 is always the highest-frequency mode of the totally symmetric species . |