Example sentences of "know best " in BNC.
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| 1 | Politicians must never make the mistake of thinking the state must always know best , or that it is entitled to the lion 's share of people 's money . |
| 2 | He may even live the kind of life he does not really like simply because he feels that because everyone else is so much wiser than he is they must know best about what is right for him . |
| 3 | Did Essex know best ? |
| 4 | Did Essex know best ? |
| 5 | It 's interesting that gay men on Switchboard found it much easier to accept that they did n't automatically know best for lesbians than white people on Switchboard find it to accept that they might not know best for Black people . |
| 6 | It 's interesting that gay men on Switchboard found it much easier to accept that they did n't automatically know best for lesbians than white people on Switchboard find it to accept that they might not know best for Black people . |
| 7 | She advised him that-parents sometimes do know best , and to ensure the best they sometimes have to insist that children do as they say . |
| 8 | ‘ What do you know best ? ’ she asked , slipping her arm round Beth 's slim waist as the two of them sauntered to the door . |
| 9 | They followed Lily ; sometimes , as detective , your feet do know best . |
| 10 | And in most cases , mum and dad do know best . |
| 11 | They do n't have the experience or wisdom to know best . |
| 12 | Someone here once commented that she gives the impression she always seems to know best . |
| 13 | There are some people who know best all the time . |
| 14 | But they are also a world away from the technology the major car manufacturers know best — the cutting , press-forming , welding and painting of metal . |
| 15 | ‘ I can now concentrate on getting back into commercial brewing and doing what I know best — making fine , traditional Yorkshire ales , ’ says Theakston , who has set up his new business next door to T&R Theakston and expects to be making 12,500 barrels a year by 1995 . |
| 16 | The new reading freedom , she said , is stimulating , but part of it is a huge wave of cheap crime and sex novels , a far cry from the stories by the Western crime writer Russians know best : Agatha Christie , with all those tales of capitalists murdering each other in country houses . |
| 17 | It is in the management of effective communications that ‘ parents know best ’ and this is the area where we need to be giving them the very best of our attention . |
| 18 | Modern architects were to take a savage and unimaginable revenge on the average man for his rejection of their ‘ we know best ’ anti-humanist ethic . |
| 19 | The people who know best where crime can and does occur are your employees . |
| 20 | The vehicles that we know best are individual bodies like our own . |
| 21 | If their opinion differs to mine , I believe that they know best . |
| 22 | Parents and teachers are the leaders , and the child is expected to obey them because they ‘ know best ’ what is right for the individual and the society he/she is being prepared or ( as some would have it ) fitted for . |
| 23 | They do not encourage verbal give and take , believing that the child should accept unquestioningly that they know best . |
| 24 | When a football career ends and reality tackles back , many footballers are attracted like a magnet to the world they know best . |
| 25 | ‘ You know best about that . ’ |
| 26 | From eight months onwards they are likely to protest loudly about being passed around , and cling to the person they know best . |
| 27 | There is a tendency for church planting groups to assume they know best what is liturgically best for that area and , sometimes , out of the window goes any recognizable Anglican liturgy with the incumbent who , unrobed and in open-necked shirt , introduces the choruses in front of the now universal overhead projector … |
| 28 | The area of Washington I know best lies around Dupont Circle , its streets now ablaze with pink , purple and white azaleas , the pavement cafes now opening up , and where for the past two decades the left think tank , the Institute for Policy Studies , has been loc-ated . |
| 29 | The politicians do n't want to listen to the nation 's voice because they believe they know best and are scared that the people will vote against . |
| 30 | ‘ I know it may seem a trite remark , ’ he answered , slowly , and there was a harshness in his voice she had never heard before , ‘ but mothers usually know best . ’ |