Example sentences of "the best [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The season will be complemented by the best shorts in the British transport film unit 's archive . |
| 2 | Clearly , the best suits in which to make tricks are Spades and Hearts . |
| 3 | ‘ We 've discussed the idea of continental championships in each of the disciplines and bringing the best skiers together for a Masters final late in the season . |
| 4 | His friends were the best skiers on earth , too . |
| 5 | I think this is the best turtle . |
| 6 | It 's not the best turtle ever . |
| 7 | Do you know the best turtle ? |
| 8 | The best footballer of his year he was also regularly in trouble with one teacher or another . |
| 9 | He could have been the best footballer in the world if he 'd have bothered turning up and stuff , ’ Gedge told Sounds . |
| 10 | And he admits he cries when he sees film of the glory days in Italy when Gazza was ready to become the best footballer in the world . |
| 11 | I 've do It 's like it 's like practising for football I mean you might be the best footballer in the world and you say you know they say well you 've just won the cup say |
| 12 | not the best footballer . |
| 13 | Yeah , the best footballer in the world . |
| 14 | What they do have in common is that in all cases industry will be looking for the location where it can make the best profit . |
| 15 | In spite of the best efforts of the health service , we had been unable to persuade the public that by far the bigger danger was of children not being inoculated . |
| 16 | The best efforts of Tom Berenger ( as an American Indian who ‘ goes native ’ in the Amazon ) and Aidan Quinn ( as a well-meaning missionary ) are sabotaged by an unwieldy screenplay , adapted by Babenco and Jean-Claude Carriere from Peter Matthiessen 's huge novel . |
| 17 | A narcissistic concern with visual appearance accords with the best efforts of sales and marketing teams , and the design of any book is a vital factor . |
| 18 | However , despite the best efforts of the BBC and other giant mass publishing houses to clog the best-seller lists with the epitome of semi-literate publishing , literacy keeps breaking through in the most unlikely places , and nearly always from American rather than British programmes . |
| 19 | No curriculum , new or old , can be implemented or changed without the best efforts of very large numbers of professional people . |
| 20 | There is , as anyone in the racket knows , a kind of trap between the printer and the writer that will box things up if possible , in spite of the best efforts on both sides . |
| 21 | In spite of some very idealistic pronouncements and general high hopes , it soon became apparent that the best efforts of the League of Nations were to be frustrated with ease by the fundamental and unresolved differences of opinion as to the exact meaning of Free City status . |
| 22 | Shifts in population can soon make a nonsense of the best efforts of the boundary commissions and it is not at all unusual for the largest constituency to be over three times the size of the smallest . |
| 23 | Social workers and the courts are facing a problem which has defeated the best efforts of families and professionals ; whatever the wording , few courts will be willing to gamble on children whom they refuse to commit to security not returning to prostitution , burning down a house , or injuring themselves . |
| 24 | Indeed , health is a complex and multi-faceted entity which often defies the best efforts of researchers either to define or measure . |
| 25 | The action had also electrified the crowd who were pressing in on the ring despite the best efforts of the khalifas to keep them all back . |
| 26 | Despite the best efforts of responsible disk vendors , and the on-disk documentation , I am sure many still regard shareware as ‘ free ’ software . |
| 27 | The problem is that our managerial hierarchies are so badly designed as to defeat the best efforts even of psychologically insightful individuals . |
| 28 | Life for women in special hospitals is harsh , mundane , stereotyped , sexist and racist — despite the best efforts of some of those who work there . |
| 29 | Is he aware of the severe difficulties experienced in late December and early January when people in remote communities — often elderly people living alone — were without power for more than 48 hours , despite the best efforts of workers to reconnect power ? |
| 30 | Despite the best efforts of one or two of her hon. Friends , I do not believe that the debate has revealed a party political difference on anything other than the very narrow issue of an advertising ban . |