Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [adj -est] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the kingdom of the Franks which was to exercise most influence for the longest period of time . |
| 2 | But as soon as Nate heard about the latest strike , that was it . |
| 3 | The mixture fizzed like mad , you swallowed the concoction and with little delay sprinted for the nearest lavatory , hoping that your speed would be faster than the deadly powder . |
| 4 | Like Las Vegas money machines — where lights whirl , the jackpot flashes and the sound of cascading money plays for the smallest win — so the sprung plywood floor of the wrestling ring thuds and echoes with exaggerated effect . |
| 5 | ‘ But you ca n't be generous , you have to go for the best person for the job . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | Top awards are given for the best net and best gross scores with over £200 in cash prizes . |
| 9 | Its body is sheer muscle , it could double as the severest whip . |
| 10 | Those of a pike have become elegant filmy sculls , rotating slowly back and forth from a joint within the body , so that the fish can compensate for the tiniest variation of current and hang above a rock as though it were suspended from an invisible wire . |
| 11 | ( a ) 25% to 50% of library users use the catalogue ; ( b ) students account for the greatest proportion of the user population ; ( c ) the catalogue is used predominantly for known-item searching and use increases with users ' educational level ; ( d ) public library users do more subject searching than academic library users . |
| 12 | The net result is that enterprises with some form of linkage to the global market now account for the largest part of the global production structure — in raw materials , manufactures and services . |
| 13 | Key resources are technical personnel and aircraft spare parts which account for the largest share of the maintenance budget . |
| 14 | Teachers ' salaries account for the largest proportion of education spending in all types of school , though this varies from around 70% in primary and secondary schools to 59% in special schools . |
| 15 | Surely she had n't almost fallen for the oldest trick in the book ! |
| 16 | As he asked for the latest report , Marshka thought about the policeman and the Englishman . |
| 17 | When I could make it , I got up and made for the nearest shelter . |
| 18 | She inched towards him , daring him to move before she had shaken off the latest man to accost her . |
| 19 | But which of us , locked behind a desk or in a queue at the supermarket check-out , has not had an overwhelming desire to drop everything , run into the street , hail a passing cab and make for the nearest airport to catch a plane to anywhere ? |
| 20 | Journalists blame this on the fact that Mr Heseltine , David Mellor and the other ‘ dogs of war ’ who make for the best viewing concentrated on attacking Labour . |
| 21 | All these levels may be seen as controlled by the relationship of the people involved in the discourse , which we may regard as the highest level . |
| 22 | It is not long ago that Mr Milken was being lionised as the greatest revitaliser of American business since J. Pierpont Morgan . |
| 23 | Today , nearly 20 years after his death , Jim Clark is still remembered , and generally regarded as the greatest driver of the post-war era . |
| 24 | Will the Home Secretary expedite his consideration and either grant a posthumous pardon or at least instigate a public inquiry , so that what is regarded as the greatest injustice of our post-war criminal justice system left unremedied will be put right before the last member of the Bentley family dies without knowing the result ? |
| 25 | Certainly the Devon , in the late eighteenth century , was described by William Marshall ( 1796 ) as being ‘ in size somewhat below the desirable point for the heavier works of husbandry ’ , making up for this deficiency with its agility and exertion so that it was regarded as the best worker in Britain . |
| 26 | Since the dominant conception of pollution control work is utterly pragmatic , doing the job is regarded as the best way of learning the job ( cf. |
| 27 | Word of mouth is regarded as the best kind of advertising . |
| 28 | The chartered company continued to be regarded as the best type of organization for carrying on overseas trade , but a grant to an individual proprietor began to be seen as the best way to set up a new colony to which settlers would come to cultivate the land . |
| 29 | The Board held that , on the somewhat complex facts of the particular case , it mattered not whether the subsequent promise was regarded as the best evidence of the benefit intended to be conferred or as the positive bargain , the benefit on the faith of which the promise was given . |
| 30 | Just down the road is the fantastic club , ‘ Future Pace ’ , which is regarded as the best disco on the island , with its ritzy piano bar and restaurant on the roof terrace . |