Example sentences of "[art] good [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first half was best forgotten , although Preston did have the better of the early chances . |
| 2 | The Dons had enjoyed the better of the early exchanges with Scott Booth in particularly lively form . |
| 3 | However , at NZRFU level there is also the feeling that the sooner the better for the All Blacks to go to South Africa . |
| 4 | Peter Smith , of Aberdeen was the best of the surviving Scots , finishing with 70 for 291 alongside O'Connor , jnr to win £3,169 . |
| 5 | UltraFAX was the best of the bundled packages I looked at , by a long way , and made using the Ascom AM2496F a joy . |
| 6 | In the longer term , the best of the regional banks , such as Banc One ( based in Columbus , Ohio ) , First Wachovia ( North Carolina ) and NBD Bancorp ( Michigan ) , ought to prosper . |
| 7 | Watford had the best of the early exchanges , but Leeds should have taken the lead after 16 minutes . |
| 8 | Maidstone had the best of the early exchanges but the Seasiders were under little real threat and seemed to be on course for at least a draw . |
| 9 | Strickland enjoyed the best of the early exchanges and with 12 ends led 14-7 . |
| 10 | The fourth import into New Zealand , again from Australia , was probably the best of the early imports . |
| 11 | Probably the best of the early imports was Hambraugh Perfect Choice , bred by Linda Baughan and imported by Mrs J. Tucker . |
| 12 | However , they can do no more than recommend the best of the available options and even in expert hands the treatment of anorexia nervous must still be considered unsatisfactory . |
| 13 | They were not outstanding , however , as technical innovators , preferring simply to adopt , or in some cases adapt , the best of the available designs and put their efforts into efficient manufacture , a high standard of materials and workmanship , and competitive marketing . |
| 14 | As far as the build quality is concerned , you 'd expect it to be up there with the best of the Japanese instruments , and you 'll be pleased to know that Jackson have not compromised their reputation here at all ; there 's nothing in the slightest ‘ second rate ’ about the Infinity . |
| 15 | THE season 's last issue of Darlington 's great value fanzine Mission Impossible re-titled Mission Mathematically Impossible for the gloomy occasion concurs with our long-held view that Ferryhill 's is the best of the non-leaague fanzines . |
| 16 | Andy plays forward for Englands U21 — Frank for Norway — and Norway is the best of the two teams . |
| 17 | The lexicon and the clustering allusions in the second half of the poem confer upon it a gravity , a sadness not wholly predictable from the opening , which seems to herald a piece on the theme of gathering rosebuds , drinking wine , and making the best of the good times before the infernal walls close in . |
| 18 | March turned out to be the best of the six months with £5,438,860 of ‘ new money ’ being introduced . |
| 19 | In fairness , it should be said that the best of the regionalist novels were considerably more complex and accomplished than they are usually given credit for , but , nonetheless , the regionalist novel as a whole came to be identified with a type of writing against which later writers reacted , one which , in its concern to document and to convey a message , was artistically clumsy and simplistic in its presentation of reality . |
| 20 | In 1988 , Oulton moved to the Marlborough Gallery , which was busy assembling a stable of the best of the new painters . |
| 21 | To get the best of the Arthurian sites of Snowdon ascend the mountain using the Watkin Path which starts at Nant Gwynant to the south . |
| 22 | Ormesby 's Nick Simon , the Welsh international , is probably the best of the unseeded players . |
| 23 | William Marshall , the best of the agricultural writers of his time , describes the landscape of east Norfolk as it was in 1787 in his Rural Economy of Norfolk . |
| 24 | We believe it will be necessary to develop new methods of testing reading comprehension which build on the experience of the best of the existing tests and of the APU 's work , but which should also meet the following criteria . |
| 25 | Although the Apache is remarkably docile its accident record in the USA is not among the best of the light twins , possibly because the type is so often employed in the training role . |
| 26 | He was a active member of the Society , which he described as ‘ the best of the local Societies ’ , and had addressed their meetings . |
| 27 | The best of the human figures are lithe and graceful with slender necks and delicate hands . |
| 28 | But , of all times , it is in dead , dark winter that the best of the variegated evergreens come into their own . |
| 29 | The subject of modern poetry coming up , which it might have been expected to do , D'Arcy put forward the view that the best of the younger poets was Louis MacNeice , because he had had a classical education . |
| 30 | To illustrate the excellence , the brothers Underwood combined to produce the best of the seven tries . |