Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [prep] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I 'm sorry Mr Chairman if the report is doom and gloom but that is the situation that does prevail we will endeavour to work to the best of our ability , or the lack of it but please remember the constraints that we are under and if we have got any views , to stand , and if we do want to help the people in Dundee and we do want to stop the government pilfering the British Rail pension scheme |
| 2 | Do you do you want to comment on the lowest figure ? |
| 3 | the best , do n't mess with the best till ye passed your test , do n't need to mess with the best . |
| 4 | It is the hardiest breed of all , able to be productive where other cattle could not even survive , and , like other hardy old breeds , it is long-lived and can make do with the poorest of grazing . |
| 5 | To her chagrin he did not look hurt in the slightest . |
| 6 | Between the death of Jane Austen and the appearance of Sketches by Boz the emphasis does however begin to shift from the greatest houses to those below them . |
| 7 | Although that was extremely pleasant , and something I 'd like to repeat at the earliest possible opportunity , ’ he added , his eyes glinting brightly . |
| 8 | While Brian Cunningham , from Birmingham , made no bones about it : ‘ I would like to learn from the best , not the rest . ’ |
| 9 | I want to argue that partnerships should actively begin to research into the best of business practice , understand what it is about and create structured opportunities for education to learn , transfer and absorb . |
| 10 | ‘ If only it had been me I would have flown to the highest tree where they could n't catch me and then , and then into the sky to find the wind . ’ |
| 11 | Our shop at work has sold out of the Torygraph today , so we may have to wait for the latest standings . |
| 12 | I was hoping that Steinmark would be back on Monday but I 'm afraid that you will have to carry on the best you can . |
| 13 | Neighbours would surely have objected in the strongest terms to such a racket . |
| 14 | Wagner 's profession of sympathy for Schopenhauer at the November meeting could only have come as the happiest of coincidences , while , in general , this first experience of the composer 's powerful personality confirmed and added to his new status : Wagner was at one with Schopenhauer and he was ( to Nietzsche 's way of thinking ) an artist such as Schopenhauer himself would have wished him . |
| 15 | It is one thing to recognise that the interests of producers and consumers are likely to be opposed : for the first will wish to sell at the highest , the second to buy at the lowest price . |
| 16 | Small hospitals incinerators do not have to comply with the latest emission standards set by the Department of Environment until 1996 . |
| 17 | And they will tell you that you do n't necessarily have to fish on the priciest beats to find good sport . |
| 18 | It was so obvious that he would n't have cared in the slightest if she really had run off with the professor . |
| 19 | In an era which had great batsmen like Bradman , Hammond , Ponsford , Duleep and McCabe , Stewie would have ranked with the best . ’ |
| 20 | If she had been in a similar position she would also have called on the nearest colleague . |
| 21 | That would not have been the end of it , but it would have put off the worst , and Tutilo seldom looks beyond the day . |
| 22 | This theory is quite untrue , as Mr Hughes could have discovered from the simplest textbook . |
| 23 | But Chapman said later : ‘ If we had lost at Wembley , my opinion of Jack and his value to the Arsenal would not have changed in the slightest . |
| 24 | A heavy fixing may mean anchoring to the nearest joist |
| 25 | Getting that information released could also mean appealing to the highest courts . |
| 26 | Neither philanthropists nor speculators could solve the problem of the very poor ; there were too few philanthropists , and no speculator could make housing for the poorest pay . |
| 27 | If you can have an answer to that , so that if you do get zapped with the worst possible question , you have a confident answer to it , then all the other questions will be plain sailing . |
| 28 | In the afternoons there was little to see other than the skateboarders who came to clatter back and forth in the bowl-shaped space under the Festival Hall , making a sound that was somewhere between a roller derby and a kendo match ; but as evening came on , bags and boxes would start to appear in the best-lighted spots under the concrete . |
| 29 | The G M B must continue to fight for the best health and safety standards at the workplace . |
| 30 | But there are some levers SSDs might pull to stave off the worst : |