Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [verb] [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tyndall 's Managed Deposit Account gives corporate and individual investors the opportunity to obtain best money market rates of interest on their funds . |
| 2 | Spent the afternoon watching youngest son 's team holding out for a draw while rushing to and from the car to get the latest score from Lord 's . |
| 3 | ‘ We must always involve the user to develop best practice . ’ |
| 4 | Fig. 10 : The toroid exhibits greatest sensitivity at right angles to the pickup coil |
| 5 | The waiter brought best malt whisky straight away . |
| 6 | Cycle triumph : The bicycle voted Best Bike of 1993 at the Harrogate Cycle Fair has taken its place at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum , Cultra , alongside some of its illustrious predecessors . |
| 7 | The strike received strongest support in the provinces , where up to 90 per cent of workers were reported to have stayed away . |
| 8 | A specialist nursery has the advantage that it can advise on the growing conditions in which the herb does best and advice may be available on the various ways of using it . |
| 9 | The monarchy fared worst — 85 per cent thought its standing had decreased in the past ten years ; 76 per cent thought the Government 's standing had decreased , followed by the law ( 65 per cent ) , the church ( 59 per cent ) , journalists ( 59 per cent ) , the police ( 57 per cent ) , the family ( 55 per cent ) , teachers ( 50 per cent ) and social workers ( 49 per cent ) . |
| 10 | To abide by the refusal may be difficult for the doctor ; but it is required by law , the principle of self-determination overruling any notion that ‘ the doctor knows best ’ or some vague notion of there being a public policy in favour of preserving life . |
| 11 | Paternalism in the guise of ‘ The doctor knows best ’ or ‘ You do n't really mean that ’ provides the social justification , and necessity the legal justification . |
| 12 | If the firm intends to ask the customer to waive best execution , that should be referred to as well . |
| 13 | The category of trade customer allows a firm to treat a company or partnership which is otherwise a small business investor as an ordinary business investor in relation to any particular transaction if : ( 1 ) It has a main business which is not investment business ; ( 2 ) It enters into the transaction as an integral part of its main business ; this term will need to be clarified by SFA in due course ; ( 3 ) The firm reasonably believes that the customer has sufficient experience and understanding to waive the private customer protections and can produce evidence of that ; ( 4 ) The firm has given the customer a clear written warning of the main private customer protections that he will lose ; the key ones are listed by SFA ( and include , for example , derivatives risk warnings and suitability of advice ) but if the firm intends to ask the customer to waive best execution that should be referred to as well ; ( 5 ) The firm notifies the customer in the warning that he can ask to be treated as a private customer ; and ( 6 ) The customer has not informed the firm that he wants to be treated as a private customer , either generally or in relation to the particular transaction . |
| 14 | In one was a fat , broad-faced man ; the body perfect and soft , as if just dead ; the lid had been glewed together , lengthways , and the weight of the earth had prest down his nose ; his beard was about half an inch long ; the winding-sheet was crape , tied with black ribbons ; and the thumbs and toes with the like ; the date was composed of small nails ( 1665 ) by which it appeared he had been dead seventy-two years ; as were also the figure of an hour-glass , death 's head , and cross bones . |
| 15 | They play , too , the games of husbands and wives , and build little models and cattle-pens with the material lying nearest to their hands . |
| 16 | The pope came nearest to a characteristic post-conciliar viewpoint over social justice ; here indeed his major encyclicals could be regarded as constituting a high-water mark in ‘ progressive ’ concern , even adopting elements of a Marxist analysis beyond any of his predecessors ; he was also , very moderately , ecumenical , though he showed little interest in the theological implications of an ecumenical agenda . |