Example sentences of "[verb] the best [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next , Peter Jenkins , the respected political commentator of The Sunday Times , writing on the possible impact of such men as Kenneth Baker and Kenneth Clarke brought into the Cabinet in the September 1985 reshuffle ( in alliance with existing Cabinet members such as Douglas Hurd and Norman Fowler ) : ‘ It is not easy to reassert Cabinet government in the face of determined prime ministerial power but the new Cabinet contains a group of capable and ambitious men of political middle age who are not eager to sacrifice the best years of their careers for the sake of someone else 's ‘ conviction politics ’ . ’ |
| 2 | Do not barge in if you think you are in the wrong , be prepared to be a little late , or concede the best position , but do not be bullied by those who shout at you . |
| 3 | These could then serve as the basis for further testing , allowing the best candidate for a true representation to emerge . |
| 4 | I ca n't deliver these resources overnight but I can say that when we talk about building the Best Banking and Financial Services Group , we do n't simply mean the best for our shareholders . |
| 5 | The ES/9000 guys are interested in building the best data management engine possible . |
| 6 | ( 1977 ) have argued that resources should be shifted between spending heads and even between agencies , and Banister ( 1980 ) has argued for a total welfare perspective which involves the best use of all existing facilities , not just the transport-related ones . |
| 7 | If one could only graft the best aspects of Scimone and Devos onto one another , the roof would really lift off ! |
| 8 | In place of bureaucracy , revolutionary leaders would simply need to borrow the best models furnished by the advanced countries and employ existing functionaries in the service of the new state . |
| 9 | Students often object to the expense of textbooks , but remember that all your friends will be trying to borrow the best textbooks from the college library . |
| 10 | They agreed the best way to help was in a manner which was visible to the population of Russia . |
| 11 | Previous losses have fallen heavily on members of some syndicates , giving rise to claims that insiders have diverted the best business to selected syndicates and channelled the higher risks and charges to ‘ dustbin ’ syndicates , with a high proportion of investors with little or no knowledge of the business . |
| 12 | Oh great competition it was , in my day about who could build the best stack er you know both in the hay coles and the and the harvest time . |
| 13 | How do you build the best soccer team in the world ? |
| 14 | It is at this stage of the hob that the one-man band plays the best music . |
| 15 | The challenge to the Lord Chancellor 's Department is to preserve the best features of the tribunal system while providing the necessary advice and support needed by claimants to ensure that all of them put their cases at their best . |
| 16 | There 's nothing sinister or mysterious about wanting to preserve the best aspects of the working class tradition — the humour , the camaraderie , the sense of shared experience and shared hardships . |
| 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 | they made the best discovery . |
| 19 | They made the best discovery of all . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Tom Mann believed that they made the best pickets of all . |
| 23 | Rory made the best attempt she could at a dismissive laugh . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | When Chandler nearly scored himself near the end , Shaw , the former First Division goalkeeper with Bristol City , made the best save of the evening . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | St Aloysius ' John Timson made the best series break of 44 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Mr Clarke said social services departments would ‘ use their own , voluntary or private provision , according to which they judge the best way of providing the best quality service ’ . |