Example sentences of "[art] good [conj] [art] [noun sg] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The best that a practitioner can do is to have regard to the sort of multiplier which has in the past been adopted by judges in similar circumstances to those with which he is concerned . |
| 2 | ‘ They are boyars , the crème de la crème , the best that the country can do . |
| 3 | In the absence of a concrete policy towards the pound , the best that the Government can hope for is to ride out the crisis until the next set of trade figures , due on 24 October . |
| 4 | The best that the Government can do is propose to bring the worst regulator up to the standard of the inadequate , when we need regulation aspiring to the standards of the best . |
| 5 | Rutherford was in a poor humour , because the best that the pool could provide was a two-year-old Astra with 70,000 on the clock , and a ticket on the windscreen . |
| 6 | It 's the very essence of human beings to call in question every form of life , every form of thought , and to raise the possibility of thinking and living in some other way , and perhaps just for this very reason , some final and definitive formulation of the , of human nature , of human knowledge , of human conduct , is in principle unobtainable , and that the best that the philosopher can ever hope to do , is to show that this formulation , that formulation or the other wo n't work . |
| 7 | It is not necessary to suppose that the design of a body or organ is the best that an engineer could conceive of . |