Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] the best of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , the academics ( or rather the best of them ) have caught up with the real world . |
| 2 | In spite of the fact that even the best of his songs can seem surprisingly flat on the page , his vocal performance compels a belief in the aptness of the words . |
| 3 | One can bludgeon them with facts , anecdotes and innuendoes about the ways in which land is being misused , show that even the best of intentions are misguided , and that most people who have to do with land and what it provides hold views which are wrong . |
| 4 | This means that even the best of gyros will always be a little too late to prevent any unwanted movement . |
| 5 | But if you think that money can ever pay me back for losing the little child — who came to the forge — and always the best of friends ! ’ |
| 6 | We have had a marvellous season with thankfully no major accidents and also the best of racing , particularly at the Ulster Grand Prix and the Tandragee 100 , so perhaps we can be forgiven for forgetting that racing needs not only the top line competitors like Joey Dunlop and Brian Reid it needs the newcomers to help the sport thrive and we are just not getting enough of them . |
| 7 | He described the mess over there , and how the Best of the West horse parade had ended ten minutes before the quake hit . |
| 8 | And yet the best of such monographs , despite the concentration upon a tiny range of human activity , will tell us more about the ordinary social behaviour of mankind than a whole shelfful of general textbooks labelled Introduction to Cultural Anthropology . |
| 9 | Probably the best song on ‘ Mighty Like A Rose ’ and definitely the best of the Costello collaborations with Paul McCartney that we 've heard so far . |
| 10 | The Champ 25SE combines tube and solid state technology to bring you , it maintains , the ultimate in versatility and therefore the best of both the valve and tranny worlds . |
| 11 | There are a number of good books on sampling , some of them now particularly aimed at the social scientist , but even the best of books can only deal with problems in fairly general terms . |
| 12 | But even the best of care may not help the worst affected . |