Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] the [adj] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing else was right , you had to go for the best in life , and I suppose we 've always felt that . ’ |
| 2 | The D12 has been designed to perform as the ultimate in digitally controlled amplification . |
| 3 | The day when McQuaid always used to come from the fair in Mohill and we had to make the big tea . ’ |
| 4 | Almost immediately after completing the poem , he began in the early months of 1941 to work on the fourth in the sequence ; it was entitled " Little Gidding " . |
| 5 | Toynbee Hall was designed as a residential settlement to be inhabited by young university graduates , who were to work among the poor in their spare time — offering art , music and education as well as material help and advice — with the aim of achieving mutual knowledge and respect between the classes . |
| 6 | But there is little to choose between the two in terms of overall performance . |
| 7 | Amongst all these fugitives seeking to surrender to the British in those first few days were the two groups whose fate is the particular concern of this report . |
| 8 | The founder of the theory of scales which is commonly used as the basis for social measurement is the psychologist S.S. Stevens , whose ideas began to crystallise in the 1940s in response to a challenge issued , in 1932 , by physicists and psychologists of the British Association for the Advancement of Science to " assess the possibility of " " quantitative estimates of sensory events " " . |
| 9 | Officials who get through the qualifying round will be able to compete against the best in the world and there will also be prizes by British divisions . |
| 10 | And finally , social citizenship rights , on a range from ‘ the right to a modicum of economic wealth and security ’ to ‘ the right to share to the full in the social heritage and to live the life of a civilized being according to the standards prevailing in society ’ were won in the twentieth century , especially in the post-war period when the welfare state was extended so that all were guaranteed education , health care and a ‘ safety net ’ of financial provision through what was then ‘ national assistance ’ . |
| 11 | If she is to go to the Superfinal in Cardiff in May as leading qualifier , she must at least return home with gold and silver from the 50 and 100m freestyle this weekend . |
| 12 | To go to the Mediterranean in summer , except in search of art and architecture , was still regarded as madness until well into the twentieth century , that era of the novel worship of sun and brown skins . |
| 13 | LENNIE Lawrence has promised to be ruthless in his Middlesbrough team selection in a bid to live with the best in the Premier League next season . |
| 14 | Limping slightly , she entered the lift , far more disturbed by the weight of Rune 's arm around her waist than the quickly diminishing pain in her ankle , but unwilling to dispense with the former in case she exacerbated the latter . |
| 15 | His total of 275 was 13 under par , four outside the record , and he also failed narrowly to become the first man to score in the 60s in every round . |
| 16 | Chartered secretaries have had to develop during the 1980s in much the same way as their nearest counterparts , lawyers and accountants . |
| 17 | The debts arose out of a ten million pound plan to build a village to care for the elderly in the grounds of the convent . |
| 18 | The debts arose out of a ten million pound plan to build a village to care for the elderly in the grounds of the convent . |
| 19 | Shaw 's book , however , did encourage Eliot to think of the modern in terms of the ancient , of ‘ creative evolution ’ , of ‘ Darwin' , ‘ biology ’ , and the ‘ ultimate questions ’ raised by ‘ the attempt to expose a panorama of human history ‘ as far as thought can reach ’ . |
| 20 | Almost imperceptibly the mood of the men began to change in the 1790s in favour of more continuous combination . |
| 21 | First , society may wish to take from the rich in order to give to the poor . |
| 22 | We are particularly grateful to members of the undergraduate years 1965 , who responded to the Librarian 's appeal for items to display at the Gaudy in June , and to Nina Bawden ( Mabey , 1943 ) who has supplied us with a complete set of her novels . |
| 23 | In the event that the continuing partners have outstanding claims against their insolvent former colleague , they will be able to prove for the same in his bankruptcy as ordinary unsecured creditors . |