Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [verb] [art] [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Doumen 's six-year-old had already won most of France 's top chasing honours including the big one , the Grand Steeplechase de Paris , and had all but beaten the best of the British at Cheltenham back in March 1991 when only the nose of Garrison Savannah denied him in the Gold Cup . |
| 2 | A modern settlement , which will usually be of personalty or of mixed fund of land and personalty , will be designed so as to attract the lowest possible tax liability . |
| 3 | Even the domestic cat , when it first sees a mouse , does not immediately rush to capture its prey ; instead , it waits until the appropriate moment so as to achieve the highest chance of success . |
| 4 | The output level usually needs to be set fairly high to drive distortion pedals etc. , so as to achieve the best signal-to-noise ratio . |
| 5 | Technique , first of all , is the ability to use a stroke in the simplest way so as to achieve the best stroke . |
| 6 | In other words , the principle is that ‘ within a fixed budget , health care resources should be allocated so as to achieve the greatest aggregate of well-being for patients . ’ |
| 7 | They will sometimes also provide a member of their management team as a co-opted member for the governing body , allowing the manager time to visit during the normal school day so as to develop the strongest possible links . |
| 8 | The dye colour chosen should be complementary to the rock colour so as to provide the greatest degree of contrast . |
| 9 | When one considers Godwin 's illustration ( Fig. 38 ) and Disraeli 's description in Sybil of such a room , where the loom is placed centrally ‘ so as to gain the best light which the gloomy situation could afford ’ , and the ailing wife and children lie on mattresses in the comers , it is not difficult to see why many , as well as Dickens , might have thought such a separation an improvement . |
| 10 | One practical goal must be to marry these two styles of computation so as to gain the best of both . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's like a terrorist attack , you know , splashing around rifle fire and bazookas and even nerve gas indiscriminately so as to get the highest death toll in the shortest possible time . ’ |
| 12 | The core is aligned with one coil picking up the north-south field and inclined at roughly 67° to the horizontal and adjusted so as to produce the largest positive output from the amplifier . |
| 13 | Always choose a permanent ink rather than buying the cheapest you can find . |
| 14 | Codes of practice set out by bodies such as the RYA to avoid the effects of contaminated waterways are all very well , but should n't we be taking direct action upon the problem itself — rather than making the best of a bad job ? |
| 15 | Hickson take pride in their ability to solve technical problems quickly while maintaining the highest safety standards . |
| 16 | The noted Maori boys college was not so much a rugby school as a school of rugby , fielding 13 rugby teams , one football side and one hockey team from its 350 pupils , as well as producing the best school XV in the country . |
| 17 | What Wieman has done — as well as reaching the lowest temperature on record — is to simplify what has been an immensely complex piece of laboratory apparatus . |
| 18 | To ‘ mother ’ a husband , ‘ parent ’ a parent , or offer ‘ professional ’ nursing care to a spouse may each at times seem abnormal , even though offering the best solution to the circumstances . |