Example sentences of "best a [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | … one can not begin to understand a number of contemporary English novelists unless one realises that to them Joyce 's way is at best a cul-de-sac . |
2 | Mr. Pannick , for the Secretary of State , reminds us that a prisoner serving a sentence of life imprisonment has no right to be released on licence ; he has at best a hope that the Secretary of State will release him in the exercise of his discretion under section 61(1) of the Criminal Justice Act 1967 . |
3 | There are numerous difficulties in making an historical study which depends entirely on written evidence , which may not represent the experience of the mass of children , and is at best a distillation of the views of the literate classes . |
4 | It was not merely a matter of correction here and there — these were ashes ; at best a discord such as some chained bear might pound on a piano . |
5 | The over-used saying ( sometimes incorrectly attributed to Confucius ) that ‘ one picture is worth more than ten thousand words ’ ( see Stevenson , 1948 , for its actual derivation ) is at best a half truth . |
6 | Lewis was subtle enough to see that this was at best a half-truth , and perhaps he was beginning to sense that what Tolkien 's friendship had to offer him was something rather more important than a regress to me nursery . |
7 | When Springhall writes that adolescents gave their allegiance to ‘ society ’ , this is at best a half-truth . |
8 | I told myself that my intention was maintenance of the status quo , but this was at best a half-truth . |
9 | Clearly such arrangements were not ideal — they could be exhausting for children and were at best a compromise among the law , the need for education , and the reality of poverty . |
10 | It is at best a standstill and does not measure up to the problems of dereliction and rising unemployment . |
11 | Although dualistic it was quite different from Platonism : cosmic time was not the moving image of eternity but ‘ at best a caricature of eternity , a defective imitation far removed from its model ’ . |
12 | This is so , because economics is at best a technique that is both partial and complementary to other disciplines . |
13 | But a track record of success is at best a measure of past management expertise in fair times . |
14 | Like the legendary biographies of the Romantic poets , realism is at best a by-product of art and not its raison d'être . |
15 | The Estlins hoped that at best a merger of the BFASS and others could be achieved . |
16 | When he plays Sibelius with the New York Philharmonic tomorrow , a rare appearance here , they expect at best a draw . |
17 | Without it , we would have been left with the feeling that natural selection is only a destructive process , or at best a process of weeding-out . |
18 | With the current growth of interest in Briggs ' work , it is intriguing to note that Briggs only ever published one paper on Sanskrit which , at the time , was poorly received and thought to be a cul-de-sac or at best a side road . |