Example sentences of "[adv] the best [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 2.14 Lord Wright in Davies v Power Duffryn Associated Collieries Ltd ( No 2 ) [ 1942 ] AC 601 provided perhaps the best known expression of this fact . |
| 2 | Perhaps the best known play , and eventual film , about mental handicap was ‘ A Day in the Death of Joe Egg ’ based on the true-life story of Abigail , born to the playwright Peter Nichols , and born a spastic due to a difficult birth . |
| 3 | Daniel Lehrman is perhaps the best known critic , but there were ( and are ) many more . |
| 4 | The term ‘ blindsight ’ was coined by Larry Weiskrantz at Oxford to describe perhaps the best known example of this dissociation , in which patients with damage to the visual areas of the cortex deny being able to see a visual stimulus while behaving in some respects as if they are processing it , for instance by moving their eyes in its direction . |
| 5 | Perhaps the best known version is Shakespeare 's seven ages of man which is a poetic statement of what had already been received wisdom for centuries and was to remain so for centuries to come . |
| 6 | Perhaps the best known exponent of this model of general education in the UK is Hirst ( 1969 ; 1974 ) , but it is familiar in most countries , and results in the relatively academic type of secondary school curriculum that one finds in the English grammar school , the French Lycée or the German Gymnasium , with appropriate national differences of emphasis ( the English have always stressed ‘ process ’ rather than ‘ breadth ’ ) . |
| 7 | The statutory undertakings discussed above are perhaps the best known examples of the implied terms recognised in the common law and have been codified as such . |
| 8 | Trading in the shares of a target company on the basis of inside information is perhaps the best known form of insider dealing . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's still the best kept secret in Belfast , but the station will become a household name and it wo n't ever stand still , ’ he promised . |
| 10 | He is still the best equipped Chancellor on the Conservative front bench ; she is still the best Thatcherite Prime Minister we have . |
| 11 | THE Rev Robert Schuller is possibly the best known television minister in America . |
| 12 | On behalf of the Inland Revenue , not always the best loved department of Government , I accept the kind compliments that my hon. Friend has paid to it ; I am sure that they will be echoed in all parts of the House . |
| 13 | Pears is probably the best singing actor I have ever seen and heard , but the range of his abilities does not extend to playing a brutal fisherman . |
| 14 | The Battle of Hastings , 1066 — probably the best known date in English History — was fought in the grounds of Battle Abbey . |
| 15 | Magdalen Tower is probably the best known symbol of Oxford . |
| 16 | This is the best known part of Lochaber and indeed probably the best known part of the Highlands , familiar to most visitors to Scotland , featured in ballads and too often in newspaper headlines , a Mecca for adventurers and everywhere displaying spectacular scenery on a grand scale . |
| 17 | And Hardy 's were probably the best known fishing tackle shop in the world and it got into the hands of one of the Hardy 's brothers and he said , ‘ May we market it under your name ? ’ and I said , ‘ My God , I 'd rather have that than a knighthood ’ — this was some years ago — and then Hardy 's were rationalized , which means of course that everything costs twice as much and there was n't as much in the shop . |
| 18 | Zero-based budgeting is probably the best known aspect of this rationalist approach . |
| 19 | Moore 's ( 1936 ) work on Nucella lapillus is probably the best known example . |
| 20 | Probably the best known Madeira folk dance group is that from Camacha , which was founded in 1948 under Dr Alfredo Ferreira de Nóbrega . |
| 21 | When war broke out the best known suffragettes turned overnight from militant confrontation with the male establishment to enthusiastic participation in the crusade against Prussianism . |
| 22 | Lancashire , by contrast , have invested heavily in the daily earning potential of Old Trafford , now the best equipped ground outside Lord 's ; in deepest Rawtenstall even that qualification would be judged unnecessary . |
| 23 | Even the best constructed franchise package can not guarantee success and some have proved to be an expensive pathway to financial disaster . |
| 24 | We make intuitive assumptions based on the information we can see , and our brains compare the shape with what we have seen before , information stored in vast memory banks that far exceed the RAM capacity of even the best endowed PC . |
| 25 | In hostile territory a siege was not lightly undertaken ; if certain reasonable precautions had been taken , those who sought refuge inside a town or castle could reasonably hope to survive , in particular if their refuge were a town which , with its generally greater size and more generous ameneties which favoured the defender , presented a besieger with a greater challenge than did even the best defended castle . |
| 26 | Even the best trained staff can feel deskilled and devalued by increasingly disturbed numbers of residents to look after , and , over time , staff can also come to feel alienated by stress . |
| 27 | Even the best mixed methods are time-consuming and fallible . |
| 28 | In the period 1821–1825 , for example , the number of new appointments each year ranged from a low of 237 to a high of 494 , but even in one of the better years such a total divided into thirty shares was not going to permit even the best supplied politician to buy his election . |
| 29 | We do our best to give you an enjoyable , trouble free holiday , but occasionally even the best laid plans can go wrong . |
| 30 | Even the best laid plans sometimes go wrong and it may occasionally be necessary for you to overdraw your account . |