Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] the [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Safrane 's design has been optimised to provide the best in passenger protection and the car has also been crash tested at 35 mph into an oblique barrier rather than the standard 30 mph ‘ head-on ’ impact test . |
| 2 | Left home earlyish for his visit by rail to London to see his publishers ; been picked up by taxi at about 7.20 a.m. , almost certainly to catch the 07.59 , arriving Paddington at 09.03 ; obviously with only some fairly quick business to transact since he 'd appeared confident of meeting his commitments with the tourists at lunchtime at The Randolph , and then again during the afternoon ; likely as not , then , he would originally have intended to catch the 11.30 from Paddington , arriving Oxford at 12.30 . |
| 3 | a share which pays an annual dividend of 30p which is expected to remain the same for the foreseeable future . |
| 4 | This exhibition is organised to promote the best of Scottish design . |
| 5 | Both media have differing advantages and disadvantages for generating and receiving sound waves , and cetaceans are designed to reap the best of both worlds . |
| 6 | Let us note , too , that coming as Marx did to English economics after he had studied Hegel 's philosophy of history , he could come with a mind predisposed to fit the first into a grand dialectical scheme such as the second propounded . |
| 7 | The two and three centre holidays in this brochure are designed to offer the best of both worlds and combine old favourites with one or two unusual ones . |
| 8 | ( 1992 ) report that these deficiencies of HMOs were well-known in the DOH , and the fund-holding scheme in Britain was designed to overcome the worst of the problem by limiting the potential risks . |
| 9 | OUR PROGRAMME WAS DESIGNED TO GET THE BEST FOR BRITAIN , TO BRING BRITAIN 'S ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE , OUR PENSIONS , PROVISION FOR PARENTS AND CHILDREN , ENVIRONMENTAL STANDARDS AND LEVELS OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING UP TO THE BEST THAT EXISTS IN EUROPE . |
| 10 | Frankie Dettori , smitten with his five-year-old mare , is expected to get the better of a battle for early supremacy with Willie Carson aboard inconsistent but occasionally very useful July Cup winner Hamas . |
| 11 | ( That the government was ready for a strike was a widespread interpretation of its appointment of Ian MacGregor to chair the NCB from September 1983 on ; MacGregor chaired British Steel in 1980–1 , a period encompassing its major dispute , and was believed responsible for the major cuts in job levels ; it was assumed that he was expected to achieve the same in the coal industry . ) |
| 12 | We have in place a framework that will ensure that this country is uniquely advantaged to make the most of the opportunities that will become available in the 1990s . |
| 13 | He can also be expected to make the most of whatever face-savers the mediators feel they can offer him . |
| 14 | Ranged around three sides of a large swimming pool in gardens of palm trees and tropical plants , these villas are brightly designed to make the most of their magnificent surroundings . |
| 15 | In 18 acres of tropical gardens on Teluk Bahang 's beachfront , the rooms are designed to make the most of the magnificent views over the sea . |
| 16 | Most of them were designed to make the most of the limitations of a character-based environment ; their procedures just do n't port easily into the Windows way of working . |
| 17 | Designed to make the most of your hair 's natural movement , it can be sprayed on wet or dry hair and will encourage any natural curls or waves that you have and add body and shine . |
| 18 | The house had been designed to make the most of natural materials , from the hand-hewn greenish slates of the roof to the cool grey stone walls which set off various shrubs and some of the roses he had spoken of . |
| 19 | What remains of the headquarters team should then be reorganised to make the most of computers , and exposed to the sort of cost-cutting techniques usually associated with the shop floor . |
| 20 | Structural and decorative work was undertaken to create the best in modern working environment while maintaining the traditional ambience of this ‘ grand old Bank ’ and its numerous objects d'art . |
| 21 | The embassy , suspecting infiltration of agents provocateurs from the Cuban security forces , had sought to isolate the seven from the rest . |
| 22 | These rugged peaks played a large part in determining Harlech 's siting as one of the so-called ‘ iron-ring ’ of fortresses , built to contain the Welsh in their mountain fastness . |
| 23 | Attempts were made to sell the PC-5 to the USAAC , but they showed no interest , due to the use of strategic materials . |
| 24 | Maybe ‘ The Queen Is Dead ’ is better ( only maybe ) but by then we had grown to expect the remarkable as a matter of course . |
| 25 | But it is one of history 's ironies that this castle , built to subdue the Welsh by an English king , was captured in 1404 by Owain Glyndwr . |
| 26 | The Church was built in 1863 by William Hall and might be said to represent the ultimate in Victorian Non-Conformist ‘ Chapel ’ building . |
| 27 | Mr. Walden ( builder ) was instructed to alter the same to an amended tone selected by the Committee ’ . |
| 28 | Bernard Arenson , Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs , claimed that the relaxation had been made to assist the poor in Haiti who had suffered unduly from the effects of sanctions depriving them of jobs and wages . |
| 29 | No effort has been made to investigate the tens of thousands of murders and ‘ disappearances ’ that have occurred over the past three years : in February , Sri Lankan human rights activists estimated that 40,000 people had ‘ disappeared ’ since 1987 . |
| 30 | Headteacher David Darlington said he had decided to ask the elderly to lunch after seeing how many lived by themselves when he was delivering harvest food parcels in the autumn . |