Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] the best [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Television offered either live coverage or by editing down the best moments presented a particularly dramatic version of events .
2 He ensures that they get to the best conferences and from time to time will organize his own , bringing in the best speakers .
3 ALSO , Liverpool wo n't want to write off the best part of £1 million spent on recruiting Souness : £500,000 a year salary and £400,000 compensation to Rangers .
4 Gary Shandling , host of the ceremony in Los Angeles , warned the audience after Clapton had picked up the Best Album Grammy : ‘ If you are up in any other categories against Eric Clapton , I would go home now . ’
5 And David Goldsmith has also sorted out the best buys in powder snow equipment , so you are prepared for the exhilaration .
6 The hot rocks technique holds out the best hope for exploitation of geothermal energy .
7 Second , identifying other people 's best practices gives you the benefit of their knowledge and experience ; you do n't have to try to work out the best way of performing a particular task — you just learn from whoever is already doing it that way .
8 Forget the original lecture situation and sit down with the speaker to work out the best way of communicating his or her message on the video screen .
9 And until we 've looked honestly at the mess you 've landed in , we ca n't hope to work out the best way out of it . ’
10 The Overseas Development Minister , Lynda Chalker , is to visit Russia to try to work out the best way to distribute British emergency food supplies .
11 Pausing a moment to work out the best route , the Doctor set off to find a stair leading down .
12 Try to work out the best solution to your background problem , then forget altogether about conventional seating ( one or two sofas , armchairs , occasional chairs ) .
13 In keeping with these objectives departments were ‘ called upon to examine the way they managed all aspects of their programmes and to work out the best pattern of managerial responsibility , financial accounting and control ’ ( ibid. , para. 14 ) .
14 Whenever universities hand out degrees on the basis of who will bring in the best publicity and therefore the biggest cheques , they dishonour their own honours system .
15 We tend to think that it is a modern problem , trying to set up the best lifestyle so that the need for personal commitment to the home is balanced with other social and career activities .
16 While the tannery try to sort out the best hides before they 're sent , these flaws can not be helped , so Klondyke cut round them , since otherwise the scar might eventually open up and spoil or even split the strap .
17 While the two aircraft commanders get their heads together to sort out the best approach to the problem we have been set , the two pilots sort out the flying side of life .
18 If you are avoiding fried food , it follows that you should be seeking out the best methods of cooking noted on the menu .
19 The identification of the farm worker with his fellow villagers was reinforced by this , and even local farmers , who also had an interest in securing skilled labour and ensuring that the farm ran as smoothly as possible , contributed to the process by seeking out the best workers according to their reputation in the locality .
20 They had to ford these hazards , Travis going first to pick out the best route .
21 And it will even map-read for you ; if you tap in your destination the computer will work out the best route for you , giving you a read-out on the screen . ’
22 The package is designed to help you work out the best way of controlling your finances over the period of a year .
23 Anybody who want 's to take part , and ca n't get today 's Torygraph , send me another mail and we 'll work out the best way to get the stuff to you .
24 Sukman Hui , director of Soho 's Chinese Community Centre , says local groups welcome the team and will work out the best ways of cooperating .
25 She 's sure to have got out the best china and baked a meat pie or something .
26 They 'd got out the best china and crystal glasses , the damask napkins , the ebony-handled knives .
27 Charles , who had been criticized as increasingly authoritarian during her 10 years in office , dismissed opposition complaints by claiming that " we have always realized that elections do n't throw up the best people " .
28 National literatures , like writers , get along the best way they can , and with what they can .
29 With borrowed money he took advantage of an opportunity that presented itself in the 1930s when Oscar Deutch set about forming a third circuit of cinemas — after those of the Rank Organisation and ABC — by buying up the best sites .
30 The idea is that , if you pick out the best bits from the past , combine them , mix and match them , dust them down and restore them fondly , then the result will be something better .
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