Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] the [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This exhibition is organised to promote the best of Scottish design . |
| 2 | Both media have differing advantages and disadvantages for generating and receiving sound waves , and cetaceans are designed to reap the best of both worlds . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ( 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He can also be expected to make the most of whatever face-savers the mediators feel they can offer him . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ The impetus for change has been driven by the charities rather than the City , but the City recognised this and has sought to make the most of it . ’ |
| 16 | Where I come from , we were taught to prefer the best of everything . |
| 17 | Honestly , Rachel , you 've only got to see the two of you together — you 're just made for each other . ’ |
| 18 | Will he consider the staffing levels needed to cost the billions of pounds of wholly uncosted pledges made by the Opposition day after day , week after week ? |
| 19 | Although my household and ARP duties did not allow of a visit to the Western hospital some folk came to see us at the main post , and laugh at the fact that the Steward of the hospital had had to send the last of his well-trained clerks to Egypt to help count the number of prisoners and try to get the provision for them in some sort of order . |
| 20 | He suggests the army could no longer be used to drain off the unemployable proletariat by conscription , nor could the newly independent colonies be used to dump the troublesome of society ( see also Hughes 1987 ) . |
| 21 | The National Trust was founded to protect the best of our heritage for ever . |
| 22 | The explanation was that the vessel had been electrochemically cleaned to remove the worst of the corrosion at some time after its excavation in the nineteenth century . |
| 23 | The result is that [ such copy ] is given to the piece work comp and he has got to make the best of it . |
| 24 | Erm yes , they er , they felt they 'd been let down by the Railway men , I think , or someone else at the beginning at the Strike , and they were out on a limb but er they 'd got to make the best of it . |
| 25 | But it did n't happen like that and you 've got to make the best of it . ’ |
| 26 | We 've got to make the best of a bad job we 've got to find a way of training both C P O's |
| 27 | You said I 'd got to make the most of it this week end . |
| 28 | Around 20 industry chiefs , including David Sainsbury , chairman of J Sainsbury , and John Towers , managing director of Rover , have been summoned to attend the first of a series of ‘ round table ’ meetings on May 25th . |
| 29 | A fine , traditional establishment , with marble staircases and floors , and intricately carved ceilings , the hotel has recently been renovated to provide the best of modern comforts in an elegant , graceful setting . |
| 30 | But they 're driven to make the best of the future . |