Example sentences of "[vb base] the [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , he must regain support abroad , stop the economy from re-entering the tailspin in which he found it and reconquer the two-thirds of the country lost to an undeclared civil war , without driving new recruits into the arms of the guerrillas . |
| 2 | ( Of course since we do not know what happens in the jury room — and it is illegal to find out — the likelihood is that the jury will disregard the law and convict the accused of one offence or the other , hardly the best possible outcome . ) |
| 3 | Transend source good quality shareware from all over the world , we then review the best of them for these pages every month . |
| 4 | I should add that we remain the best of friends . |
| 5 | ‘ I fear the two of you will leave me far behind . ’ |
| 6 | Falling donations have forced Greenpeace International to cut its 1993 budget from $36 million to $27 million , sell the largest of its seven ships , and make up to a quarter of its 500 campaigners redundant . |
| 7 | TITLE-CHASING Orrell make the first of two ‘ do or die ’ league trips to London in nine days when they face Wasps at Sudbury today . |
| 8 | Both linguistic and legal grounds make the second of these hypotheses the more plausible : the response seems to be tailored ( drastically ) to fit the preceding enquiry , in which only subsequent debts are considered ; there is no reason why this trust clause should be thought invalid , as other texts confirm . |
| 9 | Perkin , on her other side , murmured something to get her attention and for a while I watched Tremayne make the best of our table having been graced by the sponsor 's wife , a gushing froth of a lady in unbecoming lemon . |
| 10 | The first rule of surviving a disaster , I had written , was to accept that it had happened and make the best of what was left . |
| 11 | Most of the brains of the organisation , or those academics who were able to pull Establishment strings and make the best of college connections , were billeted fairly comfortably near B.P. or had private transport , and were therefore able to take part in the social life that was organised for the community . |
| 12 | You 've got to take what you can in this world and make the best of it . |
| 13 | We have got , each one of us , to take our place as we find it in this world and make the best of it , and pull together with the others around us … |
| 14 | You should ask yourself whether you make the best of what you have , however little . |
| 15 | He contrasts the moral ideas of humanity with those of the deity , who is described in terms reminiscent of Voltaire : ‘ Why have we sympathies that make the best of us so afraid of inflicting pain and sorrow , which yet we see dealt about so lavishly by the supreme governor ? ’ |
| 16 | However , if circumstances dictate using the post then make the best of it by : |
| 17 | My message is not that teachers ought to quit complaining and make the best of a bad job . |
| 18 | Much of the writing that followed the Act has borne this ‘ make the best of it ’ message , alongside attempts to muster the collective will to the task ahead : |
| 19 | ‘ I appreciate it , and if I get a nice sky in a picture then fine , I 'll manipulate it in the darkroom and make the best of it . |
| 20 | No , nobody 's ever asked me , but I did say yes , but only because I want to believe it , I do n't care if the rest of you do n't , but I think its very important that you , you 've got the body that your born with and I think its very important just to go on with it and make the best of it . |
| 21 | I think a medical problem different say for instance for myself I got an awful bash on the nose playing badminton and they thought it was broken , however it mended and I wished it had broken because its mended a bit , but I do not believe in spending money on cosmetic surgery because I think if you make the best of what you have and think of all the people were mutilated by disease |
| 22 | What can I do but make the best of it ? |
| 23 | Once one is in the right frame of mind , it is a relatively easy exercise to play spot-the-sexism within curriculum materials ; indeed both teachers and pupils now use this serious game to highlight gender biases in their books and , rather than toss them out , make the best of distorted material to act as a starter for discussion . |
| 24 | Make the best of it |
| 25 | I 'll finish with this about women : they make the best of friends and the worst of enemies ! |
| 26 | I 'll be talking er , to the writer of the article in She magazine in about twenty minutes ' time , and er we 'll discuss with her , how you make the best of these unwelcome guests . |
| 27 | It 's very amusing , and you 've explained it amusingly to us , but er , there 's a lot of truth , I think in er , what you say and er how can we , er make the best of these unwelcome guests who insist on turning up at the most inopportune times , when we 're trying to enjoy ourselves . |
| 28 | One complained in 1802 : " In the factory we can never work the hours we can at home , nor make the best of our time . |
| 29 | Make the best of it , she had said . |
| 30 | But the Command insisted that the Pathfinders must pathfind with what they had and make the best of it . |