Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] the [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It then takes a further two minutes to suspend the inner under the fly . |
| 2 | Compact Co-ordinators should convene regular meetings to include the following of their colleagues : — Careers Teacher , — representative Head of Year , — representative Head of Department , — Compact Schools/Industry Coordinator . |
| 3 | Come on our trips to see the best of Rhodes . |
| 4 | They turned into a quieter street where open shutters gave a view of craftsmen bent over worktables placed at the front of their shops to catch the best of the morning light . |
| 5 | The walk combines a fun day out with the important business of raising funds to help the millions of animals who suffer each year in laboratory tests . |
| 6 | The sponsored walk combines a fun day out for all of the family ( especially the four-legged members ! ) with the important business of raising funds to help the millions of animals who suffer each year in laboratory tests . |
| 7 | These include strict fiscal and monetary policies to avoid inflation ; deregulation of domestic goods markets ; reform of the trade regime ; measures to remove constraints on factor employment , saving and investment , and to strengthen private and public institutions ; and steps to protect the poor during the transition . |
| 8 | He was also a brave man , taking personal risks to comfort the sick during an outbreak of plague . |
| 9 | The Cluanie Inn is a fine hotel in a splendid old building , which has been extended in recent years so sensitively , soon it will be difficult for passers-by to tell the old from the new . |
| 10 | Since it enabled employers to replace the two-shift with a three-shift system in the mines , it produced little real improvement in miners ' living standards . |
| 11 | At the moment there are no plans to sell the AZ-1 in the UK . |
| 12 | The ploughs and gritters do their best , of course , but it 's not at all uncommon for the elements to get the better of them for a little while . |
| 13 | Christ 's Hospital had been founded in 1553 for the ‘ orphaned , aged and sick poor ’ , but by the time of Coleridge 's arrival it had long outgrown its origins to become the foremost of England 's charity schools . |
| 14 | Our comprehensive Discovery Holiday ( supplement £30 ) includes a fascinating range of visits to make the most of your trip to Amsterdam , yet allows you the flexibility to choose the itinerary that suits your individual taste . |
| 15 | This series attempts to combine the best of traditional and modern mathematics , and is based upon many years of experience teaching both approaches to the subject . |
| 16 | Rocky outcrops ( ‘ edges ' or ‘ rigs ’ ) on the fells were the only landmarks to guide the knowledgeable around the boggy patches of moss or flow . |
| 17 | REPLY WITHIN SEVEN DAYS TO MAKE THE MOST OF ALL THE PRIZE-WINNING OPPORTUNITIES OFFERED YOU ! |
| 18 | All of this should also help social workers to distinguish the important from the trivial . |
| 19 | Silent Scream attempts to do the same for Larry Winters , a Glaswegian murderer who waxed poetic behind bars before topping himself . |
| 20 | Even if the courts had the resources to perform the first of these tasks , the latter involves value judgments of a kind inappropriate to the judicial function . |
| 21 | Mayor David Dinkins expressed his sadness over the incident and promised more resources to tackle the hundreds of unlicensed clubs thought to be operating in the city , many of which were violating safety regulations . |
| 22 | They have been collecting tins from their customers to help the needy in the Russian town of Kostroma , which is twinned with County Durham . |
| 23 | Milkmen have been collecting tinned foods and medicine from their customers to help the needy in the Russian town of Kostroma , which is twinned with County Durham . |
| 24 | Electronics designers will need to follow some rules of thumb , many of which will be familiar , such as mains filtration , adopting a sensible grounding policy , minimising ground impedance , minimising cable lengths , screening cables which are carrying high frequency , large magnitude signals or which contain sensitive signals , and grouping cables to separate the sensitive from the interfering . |
| 25 | It is the plan of agitators and the way of sensational writers to confound the two in one , to talk of ‘ starving millions ’ and to tack on the thousands of the working classes to the tens or hundreds of the distressed . |
| 26 | I allowed my feelings to get the better of me . |
| 27 | Although no country would choose to be without indigenous energy resources , a number of countries lacking access to significant gas , oil , or coal resources have avoided much of the divisive and damaging controversies which have afflicted successive UK governments in their efforts to make the best of being an island built of coal , surrounded by oil and gas and one of the pioneers of nuclear engineering . |
| 28 | I am confident that we are well able to meet any of today 's challenges but this does not mean we can ever relax our efforts to achieve the best in every possible respect . |
| 29 | Hedge your bets with a foreign currency fund : Martin Baker reports on the best ways for investors to make the most of a falling pound |
| 30 | Particular care was taken to get the patients to contract the sphincter for at least 20 seconds . |