Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] the best " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secretly , under layers and wads of protest , was her admission that he was right , that these things were for the best . |
| 2 | His motives , clearly , were of the best , but the court held that this was irrelevant . |
| 3 | But Toby wondered whether the old-fashioned theories it conducted itself by were of the best , or consistently applied . |
| 4 | This summer 's skate sessions were amongst the best but the endless rain was a drag . |
| 5 | In 1986 , three Olympic athletes were in the best field ever assembled ( according to Geoff Dowling ) , but they did n't win ! |
| 6 | The biogeographers were in the best position to appreciate the value of Darwin 's new evidence for adaptive evolution , and thus to adopt a genuine ‘ Darwinism ’ . |
| 7 | If the Latin Americans had their nationalist sensibilities ruffled by the refusal of the Comintern to recognise that they were in the best position to analyse the situation in their own countries , and were disappointed by the level of support received from Moscow , Comintern officials in their turn were unenthusiastic about the evolution of the Latin American Communist parties and their approach to revolutionary politics . |
| 8 | Apart from a Negro and a brace of Bavarians all the students were on the best side of thirty and they could run rings round us older men who saw only dubious advantages in agents who could run , jump and do forward rolls . |
| 9 | Overall oils were among the best performing shares with the sector 's defensive qualities in the present uncertain atmosphere drawing support . |
| 10 | High Street stores including Marks & Spencer , Boots and Argos were among the best performers in trading on hopes that consumer spending is at last picking up . |
| 11 | ‘ Her reports were at the best misleading and at worst untrue reports , ’ Mr McMillan said . |
| 12 | Whatever lay ahead , maybe it was for the best . |
| 13 | ‘ They said it was for the best , ’ said Gloria . |
| 14 | We were both sad , but it was for the best . |
| 15 | Dad did n't speak to Mum on the phone , and he did n't see her , knowing that this was for the best in the long run . |
| 16 | ‘ Father O'Neill has gone — it was for the best , ’ he told her . |
| 17 | Despite his brotherly teasing and criticisms , he was devoted to her and would not be speaking in this fashion unless he felt it was for the best . |
| 18 | ‘ But it was for the best that it did n't survive , ’ Cynthia said quickly . |
| 19 | I thought it was for the best . |
| 20 | I decided to decide that it was for the best . |
| 21 | Perhaps it was for the best . |
| 22 | All I can say is that it was for the best of reasons . ’ |
| 23 | Another winner from Newcastle was for the best overall score from the two rounds of golf which Steve Ridley , surveyor won . |
| 24 | As it happened , it was for the best . |
| 25 | ‘ So everything was for the best , Maggie ? ’ |
| 26 | Her soul , God rest it , it has left — People say " it was for the best " . |
| 27 | Well , maybe it was for the best . |
| 28 | Glass accepts this was for the best . |
| 29 | She was n't a pretty woman , but to Erlich 's eye she was about the best there could be . |
| 30 | Yeah , I thought it was about the best one ever . |