Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [verb] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To provide a stimulus for schools to make the best possible use of all the available learning resources inside and outside the school — money , people , space , equipment and learning materials — in meeting their objectives . |
| 2 | To provide a stimulus for schools to make the best possible use of all the available learning resources inside and outside the school money , people , space , equipment and learning materials — in meeting their objectives . |
| 3 | So disrupted were the TV schedules that day , with viewers switching between channels to glean the latest news from America , that Verity Lambert won permission to have ‘ An Unearthly Child ’ rescreened the following Saturday , before ‘ The Cave of Skulls ’ ( the story 's second episode ) to enable more balanced viewer ratings to be established . |
| 4 | A competition for companies to follow the cheapest labour could well ensue and the loser , the labour force , both East and West . |
| 5 | It is for skilled management developers to use their expertise in the management of change to mitigate the worst effects . |
| 6 | In practice we have found the combination ( i.e. mean ) of ranks to give the best results , but tends to produce tied combined ranks frequently . |
| 7 | The term Arte Povera was coined to express the idea of artists exercising the greatest possible freedom to explore , not to serve as a definition . |
| 8 | The symphonies of Haydn and Mozart of course provide the simplest ( and hence some of the very best ) models since , even when the score contains trumpets and drums , these are nearly always used simply for ‘ noise-making ’ purposes , and the bulk of the work is allotted to strings , woodwind , and horns . |
| 9 | In principle , we believe that independent employer-led arrangements which have the full support of employers offer the best way forward for industrial training . |
| 10 | It is a matter of experience to judge the best time to remove a peel , but flicking the edge upwards immediately releases the peel slightly when ready , producing a diagnostic ‘ dry ’ sound . |
| 11 | You thus have plenty of opportunity to achieve the keenest interest rate and save money . |
| 12 | You thus have plenty of opportunity to achieve the keenest interest rates . |
| 13 | This collection of demands gave the widest scope for an agitation against the government on several issues thought to appeal to radical Liberals and Left Labour alike . |
| 14 | The north London borough of Haringey offered the best show in town . |
| 15 | However , it is considered that during the first stage of the expansion of GIS use the largest group of new users are non-computer-literate professionals who frequently have a highly developed insight into spatial data . |
| 16 | The Royal Bank of Scotland had the worst score of any Scottish company with a negative rating of -218 . |
| 17 | ‘ The statistics also show that property in the North of Scotland fetched the highest average prices during the year . ’ |
| 18 | The east of England had the lowest number of beef herds and the smallest numbers in the herds . |
| 19 | In September 1991 , the Bank of England issued the latest of a number of additional amounts ( tranchettes ) of this stock . |
| 20 | Closer yet , and the clustered spires of each hive soar from the wastes of ash to pierce the highest clouds . |
| 21 | The Mentawai Islands off the west coast of Sumatra represent the highest parts of the outer-arc ridge of the Sunda Arc and this structure can be traced northwards as far as the Indoburman Ranges in Burma ( Fig. 3.9 ) . |
| 22 | The Districts of Bedfordshire had the largest increase of any in the first period ( 10.3 per cent ) , followed by the second largest decrease ( -9.0 per cent ) in the second period , and a middling change in the third . |
| 23 | We , as a society , could learn from that , and , if we regarded the birth of every disabled child as a precious gift and were prepared to provide the necessary resources to the children and their parents to allow these gifts to develop , then perhaps we would be spared the distressing sight of individual and groups of parents pursuing the latest fashionable cure for their child 's blindness , deafness or other disability at whatever cost to themselves , their families and friends . |
| 24 | By deciding in late 1987 to take my daughter to Budapest 's Peto Institute for a spell of conductive education I ‘ contributed to the distressing sight of individual and groups of parents pursuing the latest fashionable cure for their child 's … disability ’ — ; in her case , cerebral palsy . |
| 25 | Today 's vacuum cleaners have a confusing array of features , so GHI tested a range of models to find the best buys |
| 26 | Labour 's stronghold of Strathclyde has the worst schools in Scotland . |
| 27 | The legalisation of euthanasia offered the best solution to the dilemmas posed by the ability to keep alive people regarded as hopelessly ill , according to Prof Sheila McLean of Glasgow University 's institute of law and ethics in medicine . |
| 28 | The death of a spouse and loss of job merit the highest stress rating , and the low end of the scale includes holidays and Christmas ! |
| 29 | According to the Global Environment Monitoring System , the city of Xian has the highest levels measured anywhere , at an average density of over 500 micrograms per cubic metre ( Shenyang and Beijing are third and fourth , with around 400 mcg per cubic metre . |
| 30 | A man of vaulting ambitions with the talents to match , passionately devoted to his house and ambitious for his favourite grandson , the twelve-year-old Robert , making no secret now that Alexander III was dead that the House of Bruce had the best claim to the Scottish throne . |