Example sentences of "as [verb] [art] [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The noted Maori boys college was not so much a rugby school as a school of rugby , fielding 13 rugby teams , one football side and one hockey team from its 350 pupils , as well as producing the best school XV in the country . |
| 2 | ‘ THE art of taxation ’ , wrote Colbert , Louis XIV 's finance minister , ‘ consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing . ’ |
| 3 | A modern settlement , which will usually be of personalty or of mixed fund of land and personalty , will be designed so as to attract the lowest possible tax liability . |
| 4 | The dye colour chosen should be complementary to the rock colour so as to provide the greatest degree of contrast . |
| 5 | China is regarded as possessing the largest untapped hydro potential of any country and projects to a capacity of over 6,000 MW are currently under construction . |
| 6 | The dilutions used were those previously established as exhibiting the best ratio of staining to background . |
| 7 | Admittedly , it was a rather small marvel , but one of such grotesque rarity as to excite the deepest interest , and to earn the highest possible commendation for its discoverer . |
| 8 | Because of this the government sees this work as providing the largest single contribution to its casualty reduction target for the year 2000 . |
| 9 | Generally , many advisers recommend index-linked gilts as providing the best net return to 40% taxpayers . |
| 10 | Moreover , the former often outperform the latter ; consumer magazines commonly suggest specific mutual companies as providing the best deal and there is some evidence that they are superior in performance more generally ( see , for example , Finsinger , 1983 ) . |
| 11 | The optimal technique was perceived by a majority of subjects as providing the best solution , this result being supported by the analysis of solutions actually obtained . |
| 12 | Interestingly , the manuscript regarded as providing the best text of the poem , Bibliothèque National fr.19152 , labels the work a " " fable " " in the first line while the other copies read " " fabliaus " " or " " fableaus " " , suggesting that the category of fabliau may not have been so clearly defined and recognized at this early date as it was later to become . |
| 13 | The following sectors have also been identified by the British Embassy 's Commercial Sections in Ankara and Istanbul as holding the greatest potential for UK exporters : hospital and medical equipment and pharmaceuticals ; tourism/hotel equipment and leisure ; shipbuilding and marine equipment ; telecommunications ; natural gas distribution equipment ; water and sewerage treatment , and pollution control equipment . |
| 14 | The text of the cable was : Bodyline bowling has assumed such proportions as to menace the best interests of the game , making protection of the body by the batsmen the main consideration . |
| 15 | It means that we can be involved straightaway with patient 's management when they 're admitted to hospitals within the Oxfordshire region , and so decisions can be made between the referring doctors and ourselves as regards the best policy of treatment . |
| 16 | The test was tried first on the horse who was regarded as having the lowest intelligence : a mare who lived around the family home . |
| 17 | Search literature refers to the best path as having the lowest cost . |
| 18 | At the end of the year the Bank received the prime accolade as having the Best Corporate Arts Programme in Great Britain . |
| 19 | Among the countries of South East Asia , a recent World Bank report regards the Philippines as having the highest level of poverty and the lowest calory supply per head . |
| 20 | NORTHERN Ireland stands out as having the highest number of long-term unemployed . |
| 21 | Votes are successively transferred from candidates who have a surplus of votes over and above the quota and from candidates excluded as having the smallest number of votes in the relevant count . |
| 22 | The fourth item in table 9.7 shows the five Authorities identified as having the worst housing conditions under the ACORN scheme , which includes multiple criteria and identifies four mutually exclusive groups of housing areas associated with particular deprivation , each of which could be treated separately in the allocation of resources : poor terraced housing , the poorest Local Authority housing , areas with a high concentration of multiple — occupancy and of people of Asian origin , and areas with a high concentration of multi-let property with a significant proportion of people of Afro-Caribbean origin . |
| 23 | Greece was criticized at the conference as having the worst record among participating countries . |
| 24 | What Wieman has done — as well as reaching the lowest temperature on record — is to simplify what has been an immensely complex piece of laboratory apparatus . |
| 25 | They will sometimes also provide a member of their management team as a co-opted member for the governing body , allowing the manager time to visit during the normal school day so as to develop the strongest possible links . |
| 26 | That apart , the book is as encyclopaedic a work on homebuilding and homebuilts as you could hope to find , as befits the fastest growing sector of general aviation , and the one where the greatest innovation is now to be found . |
| 27 | The problem is that our managerial hierarchies are so badly designed as to defeat the best efforts even of psychologically insightful individuals . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's like a terrorist attack , you know , splashing around rifle fire and bazookas and even nerve gas indiscriminately so as to get the highest death toll in the shortest possible time . ’ |
| 29 | The core is aligned with one coil picking up the north-south field and inclined at roughly 67° to the horizontal and adjusted so as to produce the largest positive output from the amplifier . |
| 30 | This utility allows you to alter images in such a way as to produce the best possible hard copy from your printer . |