Example sentences of "[vb -s] for the [adj -est] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like Las Vegas money machines — where lights whirl , the jackpot flashes and the sound of cascading money plays for the smallest win — so the sprung plywood floor of the wrestling ring thuds and echoes with exaggerated effect . |
| 2 | The Profitboss goes for the best people , but never apes . |
| 3 | He writes and rewrites in long-hand , and endlessly checks for the smallest detail . |
| 4 | It checks for the latest bug fixes , cross-referencing bugs-to-source , reports of the severity and quanity of defects in releases and searches for defects based on the audit trail between bug reports and source code . |
| 5 | We 'll be taking a look around the scene here in a few moments , but first let's see how the people and town of Cheltenham prepares for the biggest invasion of the year . |
| 6 | All the testing at the Yamaha camp in Spain and in Australia , all the preparation , and all the homework are behind him now , and what he has left is the adrenalin pumping in his veins as he prepares for the biggest day of his sporting life . |
| 7 | Courageous Carina Hamlet prepares for the latest operation in 10 years of surgery , comforted by her mother Margaret Picture : TEGWYN ROBERTS |
| 8 | Benefits increases for the worst-off pensioners aged over 75 , or disabled , had come into effect this week and the earnings rule restricting eligibility for pensions had been abolished . |
| 9 | Hydrophane has kindly donated FOUR sets of polo wraps for the best ones . |
| 10 | Amongst these are the Turkish Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-10 at Paris , and the terrible collision on the ground at Tenerife between Pan American and KLM Boeing 747s which to this day accounts for the greatest number of fatalities in a single accident . |
| 11 | The votary of ahi sā strives for the greatest good of all , which means that he goes beyond utilitarianism . |
| 12 | The Geneva meeting used a clinical approach to health policy development which focuses on individual patients and their available treatment options , whereas the Copenhagen meeting used a public health approach which strives for the best mix of curative and preventive health services , given the existing resources , to maximise the health status of a population . |
| 13 | The modern school must , to my mind , stand or full by what it does for the worst-equipped children . |
| 14 | The winner is the one who jumps and crawls for the longest time , and he receives a blue ribbon to wear round his waist . |