Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well would you like to know what the fourteen great achievements are then ? |
| 2 | In May 1953 the state Department told the British that the Shah wanted to know what the British expected of him . |
| 3 | We must , therefore , use such instances empirically to help to establish what the internal linguistic norms of the community actually are , and to do this is to be accountable to the data in quite a strong sense . |
| 4 | Matthew stumbled a bit on this question , trying to remember what the prevailing feminist attitudes were towards such things as parenting and families . |
| 5 | The Hexagonale regional grouping ( comprising Austria , Czechoslovakia , Hungary , Italy , Poland and Yugoslavia — see p. 38508 ) decided in Vienna on Jan. 28 to rename itself the Central European Initiative with immediate effect ; Yugoslavia did not participate in the meeting but Slovenia and Croatia were represented . |
| 6 | And before you leave us I want you all to hear what the Senior Medical Officer said to me half an hour ago . |
| 7 | ‘ My reward will be to give them the final yellow jersey in Manchester . ’ |
| 8 | We will endeavour to give you the best possible service to ensure a trouble-free and enjoyable holiday . |
| 9 | At Parcelforce , we aim to give you the best possible service and to be fair in all our dealings with you . |
| 10 | Whilst everyone in Parcelforce is working hard to give you the best possible service , we do sometimes make mistakes . |
| 11 | At Royal Mail , we aim to give you the best possible service and to be fair in all our dealings with you . |
| 12 | Everyone in Royal Mail is working to give you the best possible service . |
| 13 | It is important that I put myself in a position to be able to give you the best possible advice . |
| 14 | Real ale — or cask-conditioned beer , to give it the correct technical name — is the champagne of the beer world , a beer that reaches maturity inside its container in the pub cellar . |
| 15 | Only a handful of people , it had been established , had been near enough to the leading car of the funicular to have been able to give it the fatal extra push that had sent Woodleigh and Jilly Jonathan tumbling down the steep hillside . |
| 16 | The fact that the disturbing factors may be complex , and that the body tends to limit the symptoms of disease to the physical plane if at all possible , can make it difficult to determine what the basic underlying imbalance is . |
| 17 | Secondary aims are to study what the postlingual deaf feel about their state and others ' attitudes to it , and their lipreading skills . |
| 18 | We had intended to ask participants in our workshop to consider what the major constructive influences on their own teaching had been , whether training at college , advice from colleagues , intuitions from pupils or their own previous experience as learners . |
| 19 | ‘ Is a trial judge entitled to refuse to permit the Crown to discontinue a prosecution after the Crown has called evidence which in his judgment could properly sustain a conviction if the jury believed it and provided he has first ascertained in the absence of the jury that the Crown were not in possession of facts of which the judge is unaware , which would justify discontinuance : and when counsel for the Crown decides to take no further part in the case , to call himself the one remaining prosecution witness whose evidence was merely to produce signed and initialled notes of an interview the police had with the defendant ? |
| 20 | ‘ Is a trial judge entitled to refuse to permit the Crown to discontinue a prosecution after the Crown has called evidence which in his judgment could properly sustain a conviction if the jury believed it and before the case for the Crown has been closed , provided he has first ascertained in the absence of the jury that the Crown were not in possession of facts of which the judge is unaware , which would justify discontinuance ; and when counsel for the Crown decides to take no further part in the case , to call himself the one remaining prosecution witness whose evidence was merely to produce signed and initialled notes of an interview the police had with the defendant ? |
| 21 | On a sober note , I should also like to echo what the right hon. Member for Worcester said about Alick Buchanan-Smith . |
| 22 | We are committed to using the resources available to the health service to treat the maximum number of patients and to offer them the highest possible quality of health care . |
| 23 | ‘ The portacabin provided us with a way to offer them the best possible service under the circumstances . ’ |
| 24 | I would be grateful if you could confirm your acceptance of this proposal , and I will take necessary steps here to pay you the first overseas royalty . |
| 25 | We are constantly trying to improve our standards so that we can continue to offer you the best possible service . |
| 26 | We do n't just aim to offer you the lowest possible prices ; we also take great pride in the high standard of service you are given from when you make your booking right through until you arrive home again . |
| 27 | ‘ I trust you 'll have no objections if I use whatever influence I have with the airlines to get you the first available seat ? ’ |
| 28 | This proposition was also rejected by the revolutionary junta in Madrid , who were therefore obliged to continue their efforts to find someone willing to wear what the English Foreign Minister had described as ‘ that crown of thorns ’ . |
| 29 | As I left the peaceful sleeping village , the mist over the marshes was rising , to show me the great unknown world I was entering . |
| 30 | He was secure enough to turn his back , to show me the two foul moons of his backside , heaving up and down as he ground her into the floor . |