Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj -est] " in BNC.

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1 The Wilhelmshaven dockyard had been , in its day , the largest naval yard in Europe , and is likely to go down as the largest purely naval yard in history .
2 The panel will be asked to come up with the best all-time team on earth after viewing Pele 's new six-part , 12-hour range of football films .
3 The professor said that the plans , which will not involve incineration , followed the region 's appointment of consultants to come up with the best environmental option for the disposal of the region 's sewage sludge without excessive cost .
4 The UK 's Solutions with Workstations Show at London 's Olympia between May 11 and 13 will be a good chance for the UK and Europe to catch up with the latest Common OpenSoftware Environment developments : Peter Idoine of IBM Corp , Steve Raby of Sun Microsystems Inc and Mike Shelton of the Santa Cruz Operation Inc will hold interactive sessions on COSE at 11am on each of the three days of the exhibition .
5 But she just looks at me pityingly , like I was behind the times and needed to catch up with the latest ideas . ’
6 There 's a chance to catch up with the latest Scottish news in our evening bulletin .
7 The statement reported the summit 's decision to establish a " special commission to consider the suggestions of the countries on the key aspects of co-operation within the CMEA framework and to work out in the shortest time drafts of new fundamental CMEA documents " .
8 I want James in the front today because the buggy is easier to tip up with the lightest one in the front .
9 Miss Probst points out that the law gives the private sector a strong incentive to clean up at the lowest possible cost .
10 If a pump is not already in use , clearly an extension cable , with a weatherproof connector , will be required to reach back to the nearest electric point .
11 Publishers must be able to reach out to the widest possible audience .
12 Notwithstanding the merit and extent of his achievements , Gavin Hastings still retains the desire to reach out for the best of which he is capable with as yet undiminished zest : ‘ Unless you set yourself tasks and ambitions , unless you have new targets , there is n't much point in playing .
13 When a colleague had some treatment , a tape was played and he was made to look up at the highest point of the ceiling .
14 ‘ First , because other insurers have intermediaries who are forced by competition to look around for the best price .
15 Not only are the most disadvantaged on the receiving end of most crime , argues Harrison , they also have to put up with the heaviest police presence .
16 Companies cluster together anxious not to miss out on the latest developments and the growing pool of scientifically-skilled labour .
17 As a source of information , the return collates much that should have been delivered for registration when the relevant transactions occurred , so that a searcher may find it unnecessary to search back beyond the latest annual return on the file .
18 It is possible to start off with the simplest possible system with a few reports and then add to it as new requirements are uncovered .
19 The course machinery was also increasingly sophisticated , and was supposedly superior , and the Club was obliged to keep up with the latest ideas , as both members and staff expected it .
20 Harry Hawke recalls that it was the aim of skinhead devotees of this music to keep up with the latest releases and consequently white-label , i.e. pre-release , copies of records were the mark of a skin who knew his music .
21 If you work in the EFL profession , it is in your interest to keep up with the latest developments in the field .
22 This jockeying for the truth may be fine for doctors engaged in expensive research , but where exactly does it leave the rest of us , constantly struggling to keep up with the latest medical thinking and changing our diets accordingly .
23 Client areas may be keen to be at the leading edge in the use emerging technologies , often for all the best reasons , but sometimes to keep up with the latest toy .
24 BRITAIN 'S struggle to climb out of the worst recession since the 1930s has seen Ministers return to the old ‘ belt-tightening ’ rhetoric of more than a decade ago — a move less than popular with Liberal Democrat Steve Cawley .
25 On the other hand there will be a greater onus to shop around for the best home for whatever spare cash you may have .
26 Have the flexibility of being able to shop around for the best possible deals and get the best professional advice ;
27 Unless something is done , dealer margins will continue in free fall and the customers will continue to shop around for the best price in the belief that service is universally lousy , and that 's in nobody 's interest .
28 FREE-market economics took on a new meaning last week as schools received an invitation to shop around for the cheapest General Certificate of Secondary Education exams .
29 As Britain 's largest electricity maker , NatPower has to shop around for the cheapest fuel available .
30 It was now becoming increasingly clear that the French were determined at least to hold on to the richest party , namely Cochinchina : or at least this was the unmistakable objective of the new French High Commissioner , the implacable Admiral Thierry d'Argenlieu .
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