Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv prt] [art] [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ALSO , Liverpool wo n't want to write off the best part of £1 million spent on recruiting Souness : £500,000 a year salary and £400,000 compensation to Rangers . |
| 2 | Second , identifying other people 's best practices gives you the benefit of their knowledge and experience ; you do n't have to try to work out the best way of performing a particular task — you just learn from whoever is already doing it that way . |
| 3 | The Overseas Development Minister , Lynda Chalker , is to visit Russia to try to work out the best way to distribute British emergency food supplies . |
| 4 | X/Open Co Ltd has wheeled out the latest release of its XPG portability guide — version 4 — with president , Geoff Morris , claiming that end users have now procured some $7bn of systems and software based upon its open systems standards , and that over 500 branded products are now on offer from 50 or more suppliers . |
| 5 | Changing that attitude has brought about the biggest improvement in the team . ’ |
| 6 | Somehow working with a young cast in Dublin has brought out the best in Parker as a director to create the film that is already being talked about as the best rock movie in years . |
| 7 | TOG O' WAR ace Steve Churchill has pulled off the greatest prize — a world championship . |
| 8 | Mr Major has worked out the best way to do this is to read out lists . |
| 9 | He still wants to take on the best in the world , but the best do not seem to want him . |
| 10 | My mother could n't believe I 'd turned down the highest single accolade known to show business aside from This Is Your Life ( which I 've also managed to avoid by dint of a pact with the reclusive man with whom I share my digs ) . |
| 11 | They 'd got out the best china and crystal glasses , the damask napkins , the ebony-handled knives . |
| 12 | I do n't think he was fitted for the job as it seemed to bring out the worst in him and his language used to become very picturesque . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's a problem we still have to solve , ’ said a spokesman : it may want to look up the latest crop of hopefuls such as Covia Technologies Inc , Locus Computing Corp , and NobleNet Inc which have recently begun to offer just such solutions . |
| 14 | By not giving this to Athena , the Athenians were tactfully declining to cream off the best for the national goddess , thereby showing that all tribute that was collected was needed for utilitarian purposes . |
| 15 | IF ever there was a horse perfectly equipped to take on the best it 's Bradbury Star . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm not sure why , but you invariably seem to bring out the worst in me … ’ |
| 17 | It seems to me that very few staff are addressing themselves to the kinds of things ( e.g. resources , teaching style , subject content , and attitudes and the hidden curriculum ) that can be used to bring out the best of the pupils ' cultures and backgrounds . |
| 18 | And until we 've looked honestly at the mess you 've landed in , we ca n't hope to work out the best way out of it . ’ |
| 19 | When his pager bleeps , the members of staff being contacted picks up the nearest telephone and dials a prearranged number , such as the reception desk . |
| 20 | So this was done , and on the very next day fine grapes were found hanging on the youngest brother 's vine . |
| 21 | When he was an undergraduate at Christchurch in nineteen seventy-five , he and a friend , Tim Sanderson , decided to put up the biggest folly in the world in Christchurch meadow : |
| 22 | TAPPA ZUKIE 'S label always seems to bring out the best in Dennis Brown , and this gentle lilt through the miseries of ghetto life is Dennis ' best for a while . |
| 23 | Patients were asked to write down the highest of three blows for the paper and pencil diary and to enter the values of all three blows into the computer . |
| 24 | Try to work out the best solution to your background problem , then forget altogether about conventional seating ( one or two sofas , armchairs , occasional chairs ) . |
| 25 | While the tannery try to sort out the best hides before they 're sent , these flaws can not be helped , so Klondyke cut round them , since otherwise the scar might eventually open up and spoil or even split the strap . |
| 26 | Thus , if in a set of decimals to be compared , the longest one really is the smallest , it will attract such pupils when they are asked to pick out the smallest as well as those who select it for the correct reason . |
| 27 | Occasionally the Imperial forces try to clear out the worst of these foes , but the area remains wild and dangerous . |
| 28 | But if it is cold , a monarch can not work up the energy to fly and can only manage to crawl up the nearest sage brush . |
| 29 | An internal well-maintained will tend to suck out the worst of the loose detritus before it clogs the undergravel . |
| 30 | She thought of Jonathan , but decided that she must have been too angry and hurt , because she could only manage to summon up the blurriest of images of him . |