Example sentences of "best [conj] [art] [noun sg] " 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 | Thus , it was thought best that the development of the linguistic framework should parallel the development of the workshop activity . |
| 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 | ‘ They are boyars , the crème de la crème , the best that the country can do . |
| 6 | It was described as a goal which epitomises the best that the scum are at the moment ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | If the rent is payable monthly it is usually best that the tenancy should begin on the first of the month . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Volunteers are naturally eager to know how well the event has done so it 's best that the cash is totalled before they leave then either banked straight away or placed in the safe keeping of the headteacher or the deputy until the bank opens on the following day . |
| 11 | It is not necessary to suppose that the design of a body or organ is the best that an engineer could conceive of . |
| 12 | ‘ I thought it best if the Director of our operations in New Orleans gave you a run down of what has taken place up to now . ’ |
| 13 | Buster Watson was expected to win the 100 metres , but I came through and clocked 10.4 seconds for a personal best and a county record , which still stands . |
| 14 | The aspirations of the knightly class at its best and the sense that Christendom must go over to the offensive against Islam are nowhere more succinctly expressed than in this poem , written when the Christian reconquest of Spain was well under way , but when the crusades had only just begun , shortly before or shortly after the launching of the First Crusade . |
| 15 | Just as surely the sponsors will only want to pay the best and the number of highly paid players may fall . |
| 16 | He did not seem to appreciate the contradiction between his virulent denunciations of parliamentary democracy and the increasingly close economic ties being woven between Spain and the western democracies ; nor between his belief that economic nationalism was best and the fact that unless Spain liberalized its economic policies , it would remain isolated from the growth then beginning to be enjoyed by the rest of Europe . |
| 17 | They took trouble to make sure our rooms in the hotel were the best and the result was that this was a very happy film to make . |
| 18 | Their father died when George was three years old , and the strongest influence on him , until she died when he was thirty-four , was his mother Magdalene , the patroness of John Donne , who wrote a well-known poem to her : Donne , in preaching her funeral sermon , described how , ‘ as her house was a court in the conversation of the best and an almshouse in feeding the poore , so it was also a hospital in ministering relief to the sick . |
| 19 | They were n't expected to win at Franklin Gardens , but then again Gloucester are at their best when the challenge is toughest . |
| 20 | Black ink is best as the interviewer may want to take photocopies . |