Example sentences of "best the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said you liked it best the way they did it in Derby . |
| 2 | To the extent that the rescues were ideologically inspired and the businesses ideologically managed , then at best the ideology distracted attention from the true nature of the problems to be faced , and at worst served as an excuse for purporting to resolve them by decisions which were patently perverse . |
| 3 | At best the idea of action as produced by the following of a rule is an icon or model of the process by which actions are really generated . |
| 4 | Eventually , however , they concluded that the best the Ministry could do was to prohibit a reduction of charges , though this limited only the most flagrant abuses . |
| 5 | The room was not the best the hotel had to offer , but it was still magnificent by any standards . |
| 6 | But the work they did was , as far as Theodora could see , amongst the best the Church could offer . |
| 7 | I heard this on my way home ( from playing ) on Sat afternoon … that the game was the best the commentator had seen . |
| 8 | At best the relationship was paternalistic , at worst it was authoritarian and dehumanising . |
| 9 | At its best the structure of one of his perorations follows this pattern : he begins with a general statement and summarises it with an accessible example ; then he moves to a narrower statement and concludes with a final example taken from everyday life . |
| 10 | Bernhard Langer , who has steered clear of New Orleans , is keeping his cards close to his chest while the best the rest can hope for is a high enough finish in order to be invited back next year . |
| 11 | Bernhard Langer , who has steered clear of New Orleans , is keeping his cards close to his chest , while the best the rest can hope for is a high enough finish in order to be invited back next year . |
| 12 | Phyllis Bowman said at the weekend that the best the society could hope for would be reducing the time limit to 18 weeks . |
| 13 | At best the existence of some checks and balances , or statutory tripwires , may serve to alert the wary as to how things are moving . |
| 14 | The best the Company could do was to send a 25-year old clerk and a force of 560 men off to Arcot , the capital of the Carnatic . |
| 15 | The early lithographs of J. C. Bourne , John Britton , A. F. Tait and others show us best the magnitude of the physical changes that the railways brought about in both town and country . |
| 16 | In recruiting the best the Profitboss gives his people the best ; the best opportunities to demonstrate their real skills , the best challenge they 'll ever have of making a key contribution . |
| 17 | It is felt that the best the taxpayer can do is to seek to pay out the monies in an income form to a beneficiary . |
| 18 | At best the thoroughness of the reviews must be in doubt . |
| 19 | But in the absence of direct evidence for the place of manufacture , or at best the source of the raw materials , there has been a degree of reticence about interpreting the distribution of such goods . |
| 20 | The answer , in brief , is the method of empirical inquiry , at its best the method of science . |
| 21 | The Defence scientists accepted the challenge and supported the Air Staff in making the best the enemy of the good . |
| 22 | This is an undoubted problem , but to use it to preclude registration of a charge of shares in a subsidiary is to make the best the enemy of the better . |
| 23 | At best the programme was rated no more than moderately effective , being considered completely ineffective in respect of home-school links . |
| 24 | At best the Unix business has three more months to get its act together , maybe 12 months at the outside , before irreversible damage sets in . |
| 25 | For organizations that want their employees to give of their best the conclusion must be that ‘ we can not afford not to have an effective communication policy ’ . |
| 26 | I doubt you want to buy parchment or vellum — though , Brother , I have the best the city can offer . |
| 27 | At best the faker can try and render the surface somewhat weathered and pitted by treatment with hydrofluoric acid , but the presence of fluorides in the surface can be easily detected . |
| 28 | Each episode of Sean 's Show ( Wednesdays at 10.30pm , Channel 4 ) contains enough ideas to sustain an inferior sitcom through an entire series , and at its best the writing achieves an admirable marriage between poignant experience and a cartoon concept for expressing it humorously . |
| 29 | At its best the combination is uniquely potent — a controlled conflagration which almost scorches the ear , a sense of communicative intensity not as an optional extra , or even as something to be striven for , but as a constant presence , only waiting to be channelled in the right direction . |
| 30 | At its best the show resembles a kind of collective autobiography . |