Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] the [adj -est] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have got to demand in the politest possible way , but in the most determined way , that they should be treated as responsible citizens whatever their walk of life People take others at their own evaluation . |
| 2 | ‘ I never saw a play before , ’ said Gabriel , to indicate in the politest possible way that he did not understand one word of what Lucie was telling him . |
| 3 | It does no harm to write to the nearest local residents and businesses , but generally this is a long shot . |
| 4 | On such occasions the airline needs to know at the earliest possible moment whether there is something inherently wrong with its equipment , procedures or training , and therefore the official investigators should keep the airline fully informed of the factual material it establishes as the investigation proceeds . |
| 5 | Brussels had framed the legislation under a section of the Treaty of Rome which authorises the Commission to aim for the highest possible levels of environmental protection and allows for majority voting in the Council of Ministers when member states are unable to agree . |
| 6 | Having just finished a talk to a class of candidates for the ministry in a major denomination I was ‘ verbally assaulted ’ by the principal of the theological college concerned who picked up on a brief reference I made to Creation and Evolution and proceeded to state in the strongest possible terms that many true Christians believe in the theory of evolution and reject the biblical account of a literal six day creation as recorded in Genesis . |
| 7 | On the sixth day , with the water supply exhausted and no hope of a patrol arriving , they decided to walk to the nearest British lines which they thought were 200 miles to the east . |
| 8 | But we have to look at the worst possible case . |
| 9 | Is he aware that next week my hon. Friend the Member for Motherwell , South ( Dr. Bray ) will visit the United States to look at the latest technological developments in steel production — thin slab casting ? |
| 10 | A Cabinet committee , expected to be chaired by the Prime Minister , will be set up soon to look at the broadest possible scope of environmental policy , taking in road traffic , housing , agriculture , the rural economy , energy , and industrial development , as well as the obvious ‘ green ’ areas of policy such as planning , waste disposal and pollution . |
| 11 | If there 's a choice , then , it makes sense to mate with the largest available individual . |
| 12 | The only Canadian station to vie with the greatest American examples was the remarkable Toronto Union station built between 1915 and 1930 with what one writer called a ‘ blessed sense of civic excess ‘ . |
| 13 | However , not enough was known of the biology of stocks to make control measures credible or effective , and whalers in international competition for declining stocks had no alternative but to press for the largest allowable quota , and hunt at maximum efficiency to attain the largest share . |
| 14 | That is the orderly and sensible way to proceed , which is why we are pressing and encouraging others to press for the earliest possible membership of the former Soviet republics in the IMF . |
| 15 | XVT also rejects the claim that such ‘ generic ’ windowing systems have to opt for the lowest common denominator approach in choosing a subset of common functionality between all the windowing systems . |
| 16 | While it makes much of the commitment to solving the Cyprus and Kashmir problems , presumably in deference to immigrant communities , it says rather less about what the Tory party plans to do about the greatest immediate challenge it will face , the level and duration of the commitment to the Iraqi Kurds . |
| 17 | Major hotels and restaurants are making the most of new ideas like these and , realising the need to invest in the best modern equipment available , they are increasingly relying on equipment manufacturers to fit out their kitchens with these innovations . |
| 18 | His first public act was to preach in the biggest white church in this segregated city . |
| 19 | You will have the chance to qualify for the highest civilian cookery qualifications available in Great Britain . |
| 20 | To start with the lowest common denominator , all sections of the Labour Party could agree that the object was to cement a good working relationship between the government and the trade unions , and thereby also to secure widespread political support , to develop a hegemony which would contrast sharply with both the Heath phase and the bitterness and disillusionment which followed compulsory wage restraint and ‘ In Place of Strife ’ in the late '60s . |
| 21 | However , it may be noted that overtly ‘ theatrical ’ pieces tend to have key schemes to match from the earliest French cantata collections onwards , copying now stage action scenes in helping to dramatize the text , now divertissements in functioning independently from it . |
| 22 | As I said before , the risk of collective action of this sort , which is regretted by many teachers ( as reflected in the rise and fall of the memberships of the different unions over the last few years ) , is that it tends to reduce to the lowest common denominators of more pay on the one hand and a narrow-minded , knee-jerk resistance to change on the other . |
| 23 | I had both radiators removed and transferred to the lorry and told the driver to go to the nearest large town and to contact the best plumber to help me repair the radiators . |
| 24 | It proposed that the minimum threshold for representation in the assembly should be " relatively low " to allow for the widest possible representation , and that decisions within the assembly should be by a two-thirds majority . |
| 25 | Although Chubb Security is now valued at £900m , with the shares at 320p against the 200p at which they floated last October , it may still be undervalued to judge from the latest 64 per cent rise in profits . |
| 26 | There is a tendency therefore for young teachers to be unwilling to go to a rural school ; and for over a third of headteachers to live in the nearest large town . |
| 27 | He suggested to our supervisor that we should read the ‘ new linguistics ’ coming out of the U.S.A. , in order to arrive at the best analytic categories and techniques for analysing the language of television . |
| 28 | Although that was extremely pleasant , and something I 'd like to repeat at the earliest possible opportunity , ’ he added , his eyes glinting brightly . |
| 29 | It seems to me that , in this respect , we have a great deal to learn from the best American schools . |
| 30 | Companies bidding for franchises must satisfy them that they will broadcast a sufficient proportion of ‘ quality ’ programming , a fair enough requirement perhaps , given the limitless temptations to pander to the lowest common denominator . |