Example sentences of "[noun] to [noun] [prep] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Commenting on its most recent losses ( page five ) Advanced Logic Research Inc , Irvine , California said that more price competition reduced its turnover , and that its gross margin for the latest six months was just 14% compared with 22% in the year-ago period ; the impact of the reduction was partially offset by cost-cutting programmes , and its cash position improved by $5.5m to $35.1m during the latest six months while the company simultaneously cut bank debt $7m . |
| 2 | The key to success in the best practice approach is the involvement , and subsequently the commitment , of as many people as possible . |
| 3 | Racing is held at York during six meetings from May to October with the biggest gathering during the three days august event . |
| 4 | Racing is held at York during six meetings from May to October with the biggest gathering during August |
| 5 | There are no real features — a low relief gangway here , a slashed crack there , a stiffening of angle at two thirds height seize the imagination of the guide-writer more than that of the viewing climber , who will want to go from bottom to top by the smoothest and straightest way . |
| 6 | It was developed to keep all aspects ‘ under one roof ’ in view of the fact that , outside London , Belfast is second to Manchester as the largest cargo airport in the UK . |
| 7 | If either of these sentences were true , the story would not have been worth telling , since the conversion would have been a purely fanciful affair which bore no relevance to Lewis at the deepest levels of his being . |
| 8 | ‘ Consumers have the right to food of the highest standards , and farmers ’ interests are surely best served by producing such food to meet consumer demand , ’ she concluded . |
| 9 | It is not too much to say that , throughout the last three critical years in China , it is to Dr Morrison that the British public has looked from day to day for the earliest and most accurate intelligence concerning events in which the interests of this country have been so largely involved . ’ |
| 10 | If properties let on long leases to tenants of the highest covenant are sold for cashflow or balance sheet enhancement the substance of the group will have been sacrificed for short-term advantage . |
| 11 | All of those things were barriers , discouraging and preventing access to education for the poorest people in our society . |
| 12 | Simon Patiño , the family 's patriarch , who rose from being a clerk in a mining supplies store to owner of the largest known tin deposit , accrued revenues from the manufacture of nearly every tin can and piece of tin foil and was ultimately appointed a representative of the Bolivian government in Paris . |
| 13 | Tylers the Company that won the tender when Crawley District Council put it out of a bunch of gangsters and on the first of February Crawley District Council awarded under C C T their refuse contract to Tylers as the cheapest tenderer . |
| 14 | So the angels sang the Gloria : ‘ Glory to God in the highest , and on earth peace among men with whom he is pleased ! ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Glory to God in the highest , and on earth peace , good will toward men . ’ |
| 16 | Glory to God in the highest ’ |
| 17 | I gave a short address with one foot on each side of the peace-line [ a sleeping policeman — concrete ] basing my theme on the marvellous passage in the second chapter of the Gospel according to St. Luke — the song of the angels , seen and heard by the shepherds , ‘ Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace and goodwill to all people ’ . |
| 18 | The angels then sing : ’ Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace , good will toward men . ’ |
| 19 | That has been changed in the Revised Standard Version as follows : ’ Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace among men with whom He is pleased . ’ |
| 20 | The 11th ‘ Accent on Design ’ October Seminar will take place on 11th and 12th , with interesting speakers , informative master classes , a fashion show and an extensive exhibition with the opportunity to purchases from the smallest button to the latest machine , accessory or publication . |
| 21 | He then grabbed the reins and drove back along the road , leaving the wounded post-boy to stagger to the nearest village . |
| 22 | The proportion of good degrees remains larger for the universities in relation to students in the highest A-level score range , but is larger for the CNAA graduates in the other A-level score ranges . |
| 23 | The company would retaliate with a double gang , one gang to decoy the landlords ' men to drinks in the nearest pub , the other to put back to rails to let the train through . |
| 24 | This might be because two schools were below average size for a secondary comprehensive ; the instruction to offer tests to pupils in the lowest sets rounded up to a complete set could have resulted in more higher ability pupils being included than was the case in larger schools with more sets . |
| 25 | A game that shrugs its shoulders while figuratively dropping Exhibits A to Z down the nearest grid . |
| 26 | That girl in the photos did n't look as if she ever did more than totter from A to B on the highest of spindly heels . |
| 27 | And then I was face to face with the biggest , and ugliest lad ever . |