Example sentences of "made the [adj -est] " in BNC.

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1 A serious blow , of course , was also dealt to the reputation of the Labour Party , which controlled many of the councils with the greatest needs and which made the heaviest demands on the public purse , and whose members were least apologetic about doing so .
2 The museum made the best of a bad job .
3 This suited Peter Buckton and Simon Tipping admirably ; they made the best possible use of the loose ball , punching holes through the Durham defence so that , as the final quarter was reached , Yorkshire led 25-6 .
4 The Club , however , made the best of it and handed the Station Commander RAF Gatow a cheque for DM10,000 that was to be split between SSAFA and RAFA .
5 That is because it is an area where Marx and Engels , misled by Morgan , went most wrong , yet where at the same time they made the best use of anthropology .
6 When Chandler nearly scored himself near the end , Shaw , the former First Division goalkeeper with Bristol City , made the best save of the evening .
7 He constantly proclaimed that the sons of blacksmiths and grooms made the best veterinary surgeons — a general proposition supported by Percivall in 1842 — although he denied that he ever said surgeons made the worst .
8 He maintained that an interest in chemistry was inborn in Germans , who also possessed a ‘ cold-blooded spirit of research , slow but accurate reflection and unremitting patience ’ , which made the best chemists .
9 It was universally accepted that no man married merely for love , and many men and women no doubt made the best of the circumstances , and fell in love with their partners .
10 If hesitating between a peach and a pear you languidly inspect sniff and fondle the fruit before deciding for the pear , and eat it slowly with a look of bliss , no one who has left behind the absolutism of childhood ( ‘ Anyone can see that a peach is nicer than a pear ’ ) will doubt that you made the best possible choice between the flavours ; the rightness of the choice , and the objective fact that in the fullest awareness of the two flavours you were spontaneously moved to take the pear , are two sides of the same coin .
11 It can not be easy to be the partner of a genius , and Constanze certainly made the best of it .
12 The ones who made the best records with the least effort , took the most drugs , gatecrashed the best parties and got involved with the strangest people .
13 You made the best of it .
14 Rutherford again made the best stand of the innings , for the fourth wicket , with the captain who was n't keen on having him in the team .
15 I remember a little boy , I 've got on a picture with me he was a very very poor child and he made the best gloves in the class and it was a real sort of accolade for him .
16 Tom Mann believed that they made the best pickets of all .
17 ‘ I 'll make the bread sauce if you like , ’ said Betty selflessly ; so Lydia let her , which was fairly unselfish of Lydia who made the best bread sauce in the world with a great deal of butter , nutmeg and black pepper .
18 Next door , the Archdeacon 's shower was not quite hot enough , but he made the best of it .
19 Whether Gould greeted all of his contacts with a similarly gauche introduction or not , he made the best of his time in Sydney and called on , among others , the missionary Bishop of Australia , William Broughton , and Alexander MacLeay , first President of the Australian Museum at Sydney .
20 Jack made the best of his bad luck at being captured and found plenty to occupy his time .
21 Rory made the best attempt she could at a dismissive laugh .
22 We made the best of it .
23 As 18 bewildered , yet relieved Bosnian refugees made the best of their new physical conditions in Kettring , questions were being asked about their mental well-being .
24 St Aloysius ' John Timson made the best series break of 44 .
25 A panel of experts decided Kate 's winning menu made the best use of French cheese and awarded her the top prize a Concorde flight to Paris for a supersonic celebration .
26 Mr Lamont clearly had his hands tied by the Public Sector Borrowing Requirement figures and made the best of a bad job with £1.5bn in tax cuts and other incentives mainly for small businesses .
27 Arbroath made the best possible start to the second half .
28 But he still made the best of his big moment by bounding on to the podium to collect his medal after the official ceremony was over .
29 Initially many central banks made the best of a bad job by loaning the dollars to borrowers in Europe via the so-called Euromarkets , where a premium over US interest rates could be obtained .
30 they made the best discovery .
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