Example sentences of "[be] [adv] the best of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tabitha Zu , The Hinnies and The Cuckoos are Stollercoaster 's featured bands and , to be honest , they 're not the best of the new bunch . |
| 2 | Well we 're not the best of friends , she just takes the piss . |
| 3 | Dally goes as far as to state that it indicates a bad prognosis for the disease , but I am glad to be able to report that although my jealousy continued into my adolescence , including the anorexic period , it did not deter my recovery , and that my sisters and I are now the best of friends . |
| 4 | Late in 1988 I purchased a second-hand Toyota KS901 ( we are now the best of friends but it did take a while ) . |
| 5 | By the time you 've finished , if you are n't the best of mates and invited down for a vair long weekend in the cuntrair , I can only say — Air nair . |
| 6 | Special mention simply must be make of the members of the Cathedral 's Catholic Mothers group who helped Mrs Roberton with the lynches , and who were perhaps the best of all the many good things that happened to our 1981 Christian Aid programme . |
| 7 | Luckier still , out of the British pot pourri , Scots were definitely the best of the lot . |
| 8 | And now in the firelight there is only the best of music to play . |
| 9 | ‘ He 's easily the best of us , technically , ’ Alison went on . |
| 10 | ‘ Although he is not the best of our cooks , ma'am . |
| 11 | At the best of times , the industry is very competitive , but this is not the best of times . |
| 12 | It is not the best of assignments , says one experienced blue-beret wearer , but it is still better than Lebanon . |
| 13 | Newsome is not the best of defenders i agree . |
| 14 | fjortoft has not scored a single goal in the premiership yet ( he kept them coming at a very steady rate at rapid vienna ( under manager Hans Krankl — one of my favorite strikers — favorite striker of all times has to be Der Bomber , Gerd Muller , who scored something like 60 goals in 50 internationals ! did he in fact score against us in our 2–0 defeat vs Bayern Munich ? ) ) — i guess Fjortoft has problems adjusting to the english play and swindon is not the best of teams anyway . |
| 15 | Griffiths trains just three horses at Nantgaredig , Carmarthen , and Norton 's Coin is easily the best of them , supplying the permit holder with all his three wins last season . |
| 16 | It 's not the best of the campaigns but it sets the parameters , ’ he says.The message from the ‘ Mouth ’ is far more strident and inspiring . |
| 17 | It 's not the best it 's not the best of roads though . |
| 18 | And he 's not the best of chums with the Yorkshire Dales National Park , who he criticises for favouring the car driving tourist over the locals with the absurd blocking of planning permission for goal posts on Dent 's football pitch . |
| 19 | This is hardly the best of reasons for planting , and not the right attitude . |
| 20 | This is probably the best of the range to date and includes Log Cabin and Shopkeeper ( basic maths ) , Library and Basketball ( logic and sorting ) , Opposites and Typing a basic word processor with spelling features and sentence construction . |
| 21 | Ormesby 's Nick Simon , the Welsh international , is probably the best of the unseeded players . |
| 22 | Martin Pipe 's gelding is clearly the best of those with Flat form , stays well and is suited by this very testing surface . |
| 23 | It 's also the best of the bunch for multi-processing , he says . |
| 24 | The quality of output from the DeskJet Portable is very high , and in my view is marginally the best of all the machines tested . |
| 25 | The panel could support such a project contrary to the county structure plan and the south Buckinghamshire local plan only if satisfied on three counts : first , that the need is abundantly clear ; secondly , that the way of tackling the flooding problem as set out in the application is undoubtedly the best of all possible alternatives ; and thirdly , that a wide variety of outstanding issues are each resolved in the best possible way . |
| 26 | But Rangers , after their 2–1 European Cup triumph at Elland Road , proved that the best of Scotland is indeed the best of British . |
| 27 | ‘ Mladenov is certainly the best of a bad bunch , ’ said a respected biologist , Mr Petar Beron , a leading member of the dissident environment group Ecoglasnost . |
| 28 | Alexander was not the best of men , certainly not the ideal Christian knight but , as a king , he ruled Scotland well . |
| 29 | He is the first to admit that he was not the best of patients . |
| 30 | Seb was not the best of patients . |