Example sentences of "to [art] [adj -est] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | In terms of norms associated with dress , awards are made by official bodies such as tailors ' organizations to the best-dressed men in Britain . |
2 | High oxygen levels permit life to extend to the deepest parts of both Ness and Morar . |
3 | In India , though the first stations appeared in the 1850s , the finest examples came later and the building of lines to the deepest recesses of the subcontinent went on until 1914 . |
4 | A SONOROUS voice from some unseen depth wafts the audience back to the darkest days of the Raj where murky affairs were afoot , when life was cheap , gentlemanly double-dealing was routine and deeds could be done and curses uttered which would pursue a man back to civilisation and England . |
5 | In Education and the Working Class they studied the attitudes and careers of eighty-eight working-class pupils in Huddersfield grammar schools : most of these had taken their A levels in the period 1949–52 , and belonged therefore to the earliest generations of those who had been liberated from the payment of fees . |
6 | In 1963 came the signing of the Anglo-French agreement to build Concorde ( or ‘ Concord ’ as it was at first spelled in Britain ) , and the video faithfully traces it right back to the earliest days of its conception . |
7 | This tradition goes back to the earliest days of the Ottoman state , to Molla Edebali ( d. 726/1326 ) , Osman 's father-in-law , and is based on statements in both the and the . |
8 | In a beautifully simple piece of writing Achebe transports us back to the earliest days of colonialism . |
9 | However , studies of children 's communicative abilities prior to the onset of spoken language have indicated that the origins of communication may be traced back to the earliest days after birth , and that full mastery of the morpho-syntactic devices for expressing complex meanings may not be fully understood until early adolescence . |
10 | On Dec. 26 , in an address to the nation , Ukrainian Premier Leonid Kuchma announced that direct payments would be made to the poorest members of society to protect them against the worst effects of the price rises . |
11 | Fickle it may be but , while in its intense form , it can lead to the greatest heights of courage and self-sacrifice . |
12 | Traditional management of the marshes was tuned to the finest nuances of the local water-table . |
13 | — You could have access to the finest minds in the business … men and women with vast development experience , who often literally wrote the book on the topics they specialize in . |
14 | For many black people , this is the only form of protest open to them in a society which is racist and discriminatory and which consigns them to the lowest positions in the class structure . |
15 | Many of the important ideas have been developed in the context of such applications , principally in relation to the lowest layers of the atmosphere as the wind blows over hot or cold ground . |
16 | The common complaint that luxury extends itself even to the lowest ranks of the people , and that the labouring poor will not now be contented with the same food , clothing and lodging which satisfied them in former times , may convince us that it is not the money price of labour only , but its real recompense , which has been augmented . |
17 | It was they whose immediate vision was one of attempting to escape from the grind of poverty , and whose children were confined to the lowest levels of education offered in the elementary schools and the secondary , or ‘ post-Hadow ’ , schools . |
18 | She descended , by all accounts , to the lowest levels of harlotry . |
19 | Some of the sites are enormously rich , however , and the history of palaeontology is punctuated by quite unscientific feuds between experts trying to find and hold on to the best sites for the most spectacular vertebrates . |
20 | On the other hand , there are those like Locke who belong to the best traditions of the Age of Reason and represent the ‘ meaning ’ theist position . |
21 | Those undertaking the drainage were quick to stake their claim to the best bits of land . |
22 | Erm by saying it 's a priority we 're not saying it 's our only priority , we have a number of priorities and it 's it 's up to us to in debate with the housing corporation er , to come to the best agreements for Harlow . |
23 | Their mutual affection was genuine and Mr Cubbage was overjoyed at his good fortune ; he entertained his young lady , who we will call Coleen , to the best things in life . |
24 | And , of course , there is a degree of ground interference which is not conducive to the best interests of the game stock . |
25 | As to the argument advanced by Mr. Barda on an analogy between ordinary and judicial parents , my understanding of the prerogative function of wardship , also applicable to the residual prerogative , is that it is a frequent justification for the exercise of such jurisdiction in the first place , that parents ' rights are insufficient and that the court 's greater powers are necessary for an objective decision as to the best interests of the child concerned . |
26 | Regardless of whether the minor or anyone else with authority to do so consents to the treatment , that practitioner will be liable to the minor in negligence if he fails to advise with reasonable skill and care and to have due regard to the best interests of his patient . |
27 | Team manager John Birch ( who shortly afterwards rocked the county by resigning , a few days after signing a new three-year contract ) explained : ‘ I have always felt that it was contrary to the best interests of a professional game to operate with a mainly semi-professional staff . |
28 | That negative , apprehensive , fearful , even sometimes hostile tone with which some Euro-sceptics approach and discuss the question is wholly contrary to the best interests of Britain . |
29 | There is also a legal question as to what costs and expenses the target can properly pay , having regard to the best interests of the company and the restrictions under s.151 CA 1985 on companies giving financial assistance for the purpose of the acquisition of their shares . |
30 | The Council is of the opinion that the proposals in the main set forth in the Department 's document … are inimical to the best interests of advanced art education . |