Example sentences of "[noun sg] for the best " in BNC.
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| 1 | As an actor myself , I wanted a part , too , but there is n't a speaking part for the best man at a wedding ceremony . |
| 2 | They were used to seeing 3 × 80 oz. bottles put in with too much colour and a ‘ hope for the best ’ attitude . |
| 3 | just pushing it in and hope for the best |
| 4 | Stick yourself in the general direction of Manchester , and hope for the best ? |
| 5 | What I 'll just get on with my jibe and hope for the best . |
| 6 | The Category D Winner for the best individual effort in achieving targets and developing new markets was Nicholas Hutchinson Regency Marine Limited . |
| 7 | If so write and tell me all about it — I 'll be sending a bottle of Moet & Chandon Champagne for the best letter ! |
| 8 | Here well-dressed factory representatives show up once a week and sell their goods at 30 per cent discount to wholesalers who then sell them to people like Marta — but not before a hard haggle for the best deal . |
| 9 | It won the Royal Television Society 's award for the Best Drama Serial of the year , and a Silver Nymph for the screenplay at the International Television Festival in Monte Carlo in 1990 . |
| 10 | There was a magazine called Kine Weekly , which would give a showman 's award for the best stunt . |
| 11 | Then he announced the winner of the Lloyd George Memorial Prize , an annual award for the best novel by a handicapped person . |
| 12 | At the Novello ceremony , Mr May also accepted an award for the best television commercial theme for Driven By You , written for Ford . |
| 13 | Lady Bailey drew out the top letter of the other sheaf , almost teasingly , like an actress announcing on television the award for the Best Actress of the Year . |
| 14 | David Ottewill 's The Edwardian Garden ( Yale University Press , 1989 ) has won the Sir Banister Fletcher Award for the best book of the year on architecture or the fine arts . |
| 15 | The award for the best dog in the Alton and District Canine Society 's show at the Drill Hall went to an Old English sheepdog , Bleakdown Major , shown by Mr. T. Cass of Shalden . |
| 16 | The authors have tested 80 different varieties and awarded the Golden Whiskers Award for the best cat nosh to Safeways ' Sardines in Smoked Salmon Jelly . |
| 17 | Quattro Pro for Windows wins the award for the best ‘ conventional ’ spreadsheet to run under Windows . |
| 18 | Among those whose work was recognised was Mr K K Sampathknmar who received the award for the best television series . |
| 19 | An account of Sir Kenneth Cork 's contribution to the accountancy and charitable bodies reads flatly without some attempt to record , among other things , his involvement in the International Year for the Disabled and his encouragement to me when I instituted fro Accountancy the ( now ) annual award for the Best Report for the Accounts of a Charity ( writes Colin Cassie , former associate editor of Accountancy . ) |
| 20 | The shop 's three glass doors and old-fashioned set of windows were all adorned with window boxes and hanging baskets and for several years it won a Bath Festival award for the best floral shop facade in the City . |
| 21 | Our Secretary has received a letter from Mr. Doug Baird , Press Officer for I.O.M. Tourism , to the effect that Saddle Mews has won the Island in Bloom award for the BEST VILLAGE — no mean achievement , and even better than last year when we were awarded 1st prize in the ESTATE AND NEIGHBOURHOOD section . |
| 22 | The winner of the Queen 's gold award for the best architectural projects of the year , Mr. Stansfield Smith — for Hampshire county council schools as it happens , an authority that is proud of local provision by an in-house organisation — has described the programme as being as much about ’ cheap politics as about cheap buildings ’ . |
| 23 | The Coleraine Times won the Newspaper Society award for the best free newspaper in Northern Ireland with the photographer and sports editor on that paper picking up national awards . |
| 24 | The award for the best display went to a firm from Lenthall Starks in Herefordshire . |
| 25 | The award for the best display went to a firm from Lenthall Starks in Herefordshire . |
| 26 | Scottish visitors did well with Willie Sloan from Irvine taking the award for the best overseas angler . |
| 27 | They were named the best Scout and Guide band and took the main award for the best band overall . |
| 28 | There will also be an award for the best garden in town . |
| 29 | Tommy Howard , 48 , from Old Swan , won the Royal Liver Assurance award for the best picture of their head office , the Liver Building . |
| 30 | All morning the world 's top cyclists will have been reconnoitring the course , selecting their gear ratios and the most suitable of their many bikes , looking at the route for the best way through corners , testing the strength and direction of the wind — looking for anything that will give them that little extra in this first trial of strength , which will be clocked in tenths and hundredths of a second . |