Example sentences of "best [noun sg] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The consensus , however , is that we are moving in the right direction and the further 1% cut in base rates and its knock-on effect on mortgages is the best tonic the country could get . |
| 2 | As a delinquent nine-year-old at his prep school , he had once been required by the headmaster to write out in his best handwriting the whole of the third chapter of Ecclesiastes , old Gumboil , economical in this as in all matters , believing that writing lines should combine punishment with literary and religious education . |
| 3 | The death sentence is the best sentence a court of law could have imposed under the present circumstances . |
| 4 | ‘ If you 're the best lay the platoon has to offer , I can only hope the Germans win this bloody war . ’ |
| 5 | Often that money is the best investment a company can make . |
| 6 | Perhaps not the best saint the church should have chosen for such a profession . |
| 7 | The Prince rose and waved him round the table to the chair next to his before serving them both with the best wine the clerk had tasted in months . |
| 8 | ‘ The best husband a woman could have . |
| 9 | And Mr Ashdown has been projected in photo opportunities across Britain as the best leader the country will never have . |
| 10 | " Officers had instructions from their employers that no English need apply and that the best chance a man could have to get employment would be that he could not speak the English language ; then he was sure to get a situation " . |
| 11 | You really are the best friend a person could ever have . ’ |
| 12 | Dear old Charlie , he thought sentimentally , the best friend a man ever had . |
| 13 | So forget Guns N' Roses and all the other pretenders , the Black Crowes are the best fun a rocker can have with their clothes on . |
| 14 | The best method the Mafia can think of for distributing its heroin in America is a chain of pizza parlours , where the sons of top mafiosi are frequently offered jobs as a favour to their fathers . |
| 15 | george Best said ‘ You 're my best mate pal so you are , hic , you and me against the f**cking world , hic , f**cking best mate a bloke ever had , hic , do you want a fight or what , hic ’ George then vomited and began coughing up blood so I grabbed hold of Dennis Law who said ‘ Younaaaa theeeerm Maanchessterr Uuuniitedd younaanarr ’ . |
| 16 | Best brass THE sound of music will take over at Rhyl 's New Pavilion Theatre when 36 brass bands compete in the second annual Rhyl Festival of Brass , on the weekend of June 19–20 . |
| 17 | If on the basis of the best information the system is seen to be heading for some sort of catastrophe then people not unnaturally lose confidence in it . |
| 18 | Mada Joyce also told the truth , which Martha considered the best virtue an adult could possess . |
| 19 | In a way , I suppose , it seems rather illogical to dismiss the value of the brochure altogether , for all types of customer , and at the same time suggest that the best way a customer can get the information s/he needs is to use a list of telephone numbers printed in the very brochure that is being dismissed . |
| 20 | Especially when he was the best fly-half the club had ever had . |
| 21 | His hearing is being handled by top defence lawyer Alan Dershowitz and King , Tyson 's manager and boxing 's most flamboyant promoter , declared : ‘ As soon as he gets out Mike is going to set about proving he is the best heavyweight the world has ever seen . |
| 22 | For their best treatment a place with grounds for walking in , and space to develop occupational therapy , away from the atmosphere prevailing in a well-run general hospital , was probably necessary . |