Example sentences of "[verb] make the best " in BNC.
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| 1 | She realised he could provide her with some top-class partners and she has made the best of them . |
| 2 | We are confident that the RIBA has made the best decision available to protect the future well being of the Journal . |
| 3 | That low , dishonest decade was when we broke free of our parents , banished the Fifties , discovered that we 'd missed the Sixties , and tried to make the best of it with an orgy of revolting clothes , tasteless music and formless anomie . |
| 4 | ‘ We tried to make the best of it but it was so bad that was impossible , ’ said Brian . |
| 5 | Against critics who had accused him of choosing to write of the sea and lonely islands in order to have greater freedom for his imagination , he protested that his own youth had worn ‘ the sober hue of hard work and exacting calls of duty , things which in themselves are not much charged with a feeling of romance ’ and that if he had any ‘ romantic feeling of reality ’ it was disciplined by ‘ a recognition of the hard facts of existence shared with the rest of mankind ’ , a recognition which , he believed , tried to make the best of the hard truth and to discover in it ‘ a certain aspect of beauty ’ . |
| 6 | One has to make the best of a situation , after all . |
| 7 | In a team where mutual respect exists , the leader will be trusted to make the best decisions , even if they go against your views . |
| 8 | The plan is designed to make the best use of these resources and to protect that best use into the future . |
| 9 | The Flagship Collection , consisting of modular units , was designed to make the best use of space against a wall , or free standing . |
| 10 | Dorothy Hardisty , General Secretary of the RCM , knew the problem and advised making the best of it : |
| 11 | I think we 've all gradually come to terms with Jennifer 's condition and learnt to make the best of it … but … ’ she stared at her telephone as it suddenly rang , her thoughts obviously far away ‘ … but I do n't think I 'll ever forgive David Markham for the way he treated her , ’ she said at last as she stretched out her hand to answer the phone . |
| 12 | It was our first home , and we were going to make the best of it . |
| 13 | However , if you are going to make the best use of your Z88 , you need to understand what you are doing . |
| 14 | A supportive infrastructure is needed to make the best use of the land . |
| 15 | European companies provided the managerial and entrepreneurial services needed to make the best use of existing resources . |
| 16 | The result is that [ such copy ] is given to the piece work comp and he has got to make the best of it . |
| 17 | Erm yes , they er , they felt they 'd been let down by the Railway men , I think , or someone else at the beginning at the Strike , and they were out on a limb but er they 'd got to make the best of it . |
| 18 | But it did n't happen like that and you 've got to make the best of it . ’ |
| 19 | We 've got to make the best of a bad job we 've got to find a way of training both C P O's |
| 20 | A worthwhile accessory for the home woodworker aiming to make the best use of a router . |
| 21 | Mildred dived for Ethel 's bench , knowing that Ethel would have made the best potion of all , and there it was , dark green and bubbling in the cauldron , with a half-full test-tube conveniently spilling a puddle of the liquid onto the bench . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , you 'll have to make the best of it . ’ |
| 23 | She 'd just have to make the best of it . |
| 24 | Usually a limited number of offers can be rejected but there is no guarantee that a subsequent offer will be an improvement , so in many rural districts applicants may have to make the best of either inappropriate housing or housing not ideally located with regard to their workplaces or existing patterns of use of facilities . |
| 25 | You 'll just have to make the best of the situation . |
| 26 | ‘ You 'll have to make the best of it , ’ were the Headmaster 's last words on leaving that morning to catch the 9.22 to Victoria . |
| 27 | If a new Prime Minister were needed for an emergency coalition and no obvious successor existed , the Sovereign would have to make the best choice possible . |
| 28 | Miss Huntley asked anxiously , and he decided to make the best of a bad job . |
| 29 | But they 're driven to make the best of the future . |
| 30 | Survival means continuity through time … and success means making the best of your opportunities within a given time-frame . |