Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] the [adj -est] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sandy Seymour was among drivers , managers and police officers helping to publicise the latest aspect of Operation Blade , the campaign by Strathclyde Police to clamp down on knife crime . |
| 2 | Often sounding like there 's no one driving , Mark 's recipe for recording involves bringing the barest bones of a song into the studio , letting the musicians bend it , stretch it , squash it , cook it and generally rip it to shreds , before setting about trying to sort out the sparks from the farts . |
| 3 | The fed state replaces fasting activity during ingestion of a nutrient meal and this motility state was also examined using the MBEST scanning technique . |
| 4 | Cider makers and drinkers have been gathering to find the best farmhouse cider in Britain . |
| 5 | Such families have been well placed to secure the best contacts and the best education , and rising young stars have often married into them , so social prestige and heredity have continued to count for a considerable amount . |
| 6 | Especially when the usual Boys ’ Club up there can hardly wait to see the highest-ranking female in the industry 's history come a cropper . ’ |
| 7 | The hoist has a capacity of 50 tons for boats of FAB 3's dimensions and both it and the dock are designed to accommodate the largest lifeboats at present envisaged . |
| 8 | At the back of the hotel the army suddenly produced a generator designed to penetrate the deepest slumber and then added a searchlight which they shone , lighting up not only the surrounding countryside in their search for Red Brigade terrorists , but our hotel rooms as well . |
| 9 | In place of bureaucracy , revolutionary leaders would simply need to borrow the best models furnished by the advanced countries and employ existing functionaries in the service of the new state . |
| 10 | The Agency has painted the brightest picture of Wales around the world . |
| 11 | The District Council has accommodated the highest proportion of Greater York growth of all the districts surrounding York over the last ten years , and therefore I think it likely that it would expected to accommodate the largest proportion of the fourteen hundred dwellings that would be accommodated in the new settlement , erm I do not think that any of the settlements or that there is sufficient land within the Southern Ryedale area to accommodate that level of development without adversely affecting character of the settlements , or compromising greenbelt objectives , as I mentioned this morning , and also I question whether or not erm whether th most of the settlements in the Southern Ryedale area have only a minimal s minimal service base anyway on which to tack any large housing growths , and I do n't necessarily foresee any subsequent rise in the service base of those settlements as a result of the housing being added on to them . |
| 12 | Chancellor Kohl has placed the heaviest burden of paying for unification on the average wage-earner . |
| 13 | The British government has given the clearest signals yet that it intends to authorise the start-up of British Nuclear Fuels ' ( BNFL ) thermal oxide reprocessing plant ( THORP ) at Sellafield . |
| 14 | In its action plan to save threatened cetaceans the Cetacean Specialist Group of IUCN has given the highest priority to a study which would monitor the scattered gill-net fisheries in the Gulf of California . |
| 15 | Conservative management of the economy has stoked the biggest credit boom in Britain 's history . |
| 16 | KAREN MELLOR has located the best deals in London , Britain 's other major cities and in national chain stores . |
| 17 | We want to provide the best package and extend our services . ’ |
| 18 | It will not promise to provide the best price in between . |
| 19 | Since its introduction in 1989 , the campaign has earned the highest awareness ever for Harp advertising . |
| 20 | Recently , Harland and Wolff has attracted the largest orders in Europe . |
| 21 | Biotechnology has attracted the greatest attention in the last 3-4 years , despite its very ancient origins , and its potential impact on social life and the economy has been compared with that of the microelectronic processor chip . |
| 22 | Britain has attracted the biggest concentration of investment from Japan , and the Japanese feel comfortable with the Conservatives , even if they reserve their deepest admiration for Mrs Thatcher . |
| 23 | This analysis would be expected to provide the best chance of demonstrating a treatment effect , but no such response was found . |
| 24 | In practice a combination of teaching methods and media can be expected to provide the best basis for programmes of library user education , different methods being adapted to different parts of the programme and to the teachers and students concerned . |
| 25 | If Mr. Goldsmith would care to accept the invitation — clearly written in the bottom left-hand corner of our charts — to contact us , I would gladly explain to him in detail how we tackle the very complex task of chart production , and in particular how we go to the most extraordinary lengths to try to meet the highest standards of clarity and accuracy demanded by the wide range of our customers — when flying in UK ( not USA ) airspace . |
| 26 | Naturally you expect to find the highest quality construction in the world in a Mercedes , but the 500SL we tested had numerous faults that we thought ‘ undermined Mercedes ' quality image and appearance ’ . |
| 27 | However , George Earl 's oil painting ‘ St Bernards in a snow drift ’ , ( above ) is expected to attract the highest bid . |
| 28 | The retailer needs to know the best time to advertise seasonal goods — eg camping equipment will be promoted in the spring , ready for the summer . |
| 29 | The retailer needs to know the best time to advertise … goods . |
| 30 | B. Managers tried to find the best places for iron and steel works , in order to keep transport costs as low as possible . |