Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] the [adj -est] " in BNC.

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1 The next hurdle for Petrochemicals will be to go for the highest level Q1 Gold award which will involve another step up in performance .
2 Reintroduction of food after elemental regimens must nevertheless be undertaken with the greatest of care irrespective of whether or not elimination diets are used .
3 Advice could also be given on the best alternative routes .
4 Three hundred years later he is remembered as an honourable man , an epithet to be prized above the highest awards attainable .
5 Of course the country may be riveted by the latest video release or the latest Nintendo game .
6 They seemed to be pandering to the silliest stereotypes .
7 Given that this work has been done , the draft schedule can then be examined in the closest detail — and probably torn to shreds .
8 Like the War Wagon ( featured in White Dwarf 149 ) the Steam Tank is a spectacular model and powerful gaming piece and should be painted to the highest possible standard .
9 The independent Phoenix Cinema in Oxford is set to play to packed houses over the next few weeks with a film that 's bound to be listed among the greatest successes of British Cinema in recent years .
10 The rains may disappear as suddenly as they arrived ; the pond may dry out within a few days , and so the whole cycle of breeding activity must be completed in the shortest possible time .
11 A third god said it should be hidden in the deepest and darkest abyss ; and another suggested the dark side of the moon .
12 Originally the scheme allowed for pensions to be calculated on the best twenty years of earnings , which at least went some way towards enabling women , who spend some rime out of the labour market caring for dependants , to maximize their future pension .
13 The edges of woven machine knit cloth are neat and firm and can be joined with the narrowest of seams and a single row of double crochet along the opening edge will be sufficient before inserting a zip fastener .
14 These were military followers apparently of considerable social status and influence , though probably to be distinguished from the greatest magnates of the realm , many of whom had military followings of their own , and might be expected to fight for the king both inside and outside his kingdom .
15 EEB members believe that subsidiarity ( the principle that action should be devolved to the lowest competent level of government ) has always applied to the EC 's environmental policies , which are among the most popular achievements of the Community .
16 The chartered company continued to be regarded as the best type of organization for carrying on overseas trade , but a grant to an individual proprietor began to be seen as the best way to set up a new colony to which settlers would come to cultivate the land .
17 Many databases include terms from controlled indexing languages and also support searching on the text of the record , thus offering what might be regarded as the best of both worlds .
18 Forsyth came to be regarded as the greatest Congregational theologian of his day .
19 Except in regions of very low rainfall April should be regarded as the safest month for sowing herbage seeds .
20 On October 9 , Smash Hits published what must be regarded as the strangest pop cover story of all time , an interview , conducted by the experienced Ian Cranna , with Morrissey and Pete Burns , and headlined ‘ The Very Odd Couple ’ .
21 In the hierarchy of Community legal texts to which I have alluded , the founding treaties may thus be placed at the highest level , in a position comparable to that of a written national constitution .
22 The Orphists were not adequately represented at this Salon , since Delaunay himself refused to show there , but at the Indépendants of 1914 the Orphist canvases were so numerous and of such large dimensions that they had to be placed in the largest and most important hall on the ground floor .
23 Overall , these families frequently tend to be placed in the worst housing or on the worst estates , partly perhaps because of their inability to pay higher rents , and partly because local authorities have always been inclined to allocate poor people and slum dwellers to particular estates ( Gray , 1979 ) .
24 Parental responsibility should be treated as the greatest and most important undertaking of human life , albeit the one potentially holding out the promise of the greatest happiness .
25 This shows that the Bristol & West is behind you , and says you 're a genuine , serious house-hunter , with real buying power — to be treated with the greatest respect !
26 Whatever the explanation in this case , it is obvious that such claims must be treated with the greatest scepticism .
27 The kind of information which a long-term participant observer receives must be treated with the greatest circumspection , for it depends ultimately not on whether he or she is carrying a tape-recorder , but on the degree of trust , mutual confiding and general affinity which has developed between researcher and subjects .
28 All entries will be treated with the strictest confidence and on November 30th , we will pick our winner from the bag of completed surveys .
29 I can assure you that any information given during the interview will be treated in the strictest confidence .
30 I would like to ask your readers if they would write to me concerning their experiences in trying to get an idea developed to the production stage , all of which will be treated in the strictest confidence .
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