Example sentences of "be the best " in BNC.

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1 His British menu of Welsh Cheddar soufflé , English gammon platter , and baked fruit in puff pastry with caramel sauce was judged to be the best overall of the six menus prepared by finalists in London last month .
2 She looked , I do n't know , determined , that would probably be the best way of putting it .
3 Crab apples and wild cherry grow in company with blackthorn , hawthorn , elder , and wild rose along a verge near my own garden , forming what must be the best natural autumn bird larder for miles around .
4 In some circumstances it may be the best thing to do .
5 I feel sort of fixed that it would be the best thing … you know it would . ’
6 The children were expected to do well , carefully encouraged , but never laid under strain to do or be the best .
7 You 'll be the best judge of that .
8 And it 's supposed to be the best in the World .
9 To be No. 1 you have to be the best ; fast pace on court , quick thinker , footwork spot on , lob the ball , serve well .
10 ‘ I want to be the best ’ she explains proudly , ‘ it does n't matter how long it takes . ’
11 Following horses with a run under their belt may be the best advice for armchair punters retreating from an unprofitable Flat campaign .
12 The US Masters champion said : ‘ To be the best in the world you 've got to play around the world , but I do n't expect to see Americans playing over here .
13 DAVID FEHERTY played what he considered to be the best golf of his life in the BMW tournament in Munich yesterday , thanks largely to a tip from a friend .
14 A draw would probably be the best result .
15 Clearly the RAF would be happy to show me their trophy-winners — while my cunning instincts told me that this would be the best place to do food-tasting !
16 For an unintelligible speaker to learn to speak intelligibly , it may not be the best training , and certainly it is not the only training , to send him to the pulpit of Boston parish church .
17 This is the Japanese giant 's exhaustively researched and meticulously executed ‘ best shot ’ at luxury saloon design — a car which seeks to be the best , and very nearly succeeds .
18 It was not enough to be the best in the world at your chosen sport , as Joe Davis found to his cost .
19 In 1980 , the owner approached a local architect , John Wharton , to provide him with a design that could be easily executed by direct labour and it was immediately apparent that exploitation of the high volume of the main east-west wing of the building would be the best way of obtaining the maximum accommodation .
20 A parcel from London recently landed on my desk with what turns out to be the best analysis of it , Soviet History in the Gorbachev Revolution by Professor R W Davies of Birmingham University 's Centre for Russian and East European Studies ( Macmillan , hardback £29.50 , paperback £7.99 ) .
21 The old fogies tend to be the best .
22 It was a wonderful show , ‘ Diamond Dogs ’ , but it was n't practical for a tour so we all thought that if we got the Broadway experts to put it together , it would be the best thing possible — but it was n't .
23 Ayatollah Taqi al-Mudarrisi , spiritual leader of the radical Islamic Works Movement which claims to have organised three assassination attempts on the Iraqi president , says internal change in Iraq , without war , would be the best outcome for the whole region .
24 Should the current recession or events in the Gulf turn truly nasty , selling stock short could also be the best way to make money in 1991 .
25 A quick and clean military victory for the American-led alliance ( or , even less plausibly , a sudden withdrawal of Iraq from Kuwait ) would be the best outcome both for the market and for the economy .
26 But lending directly to private businesses may not be the best way to help them .
27 At the wicket he is a Roman general , unquestioning of his own ability to defeat the barbarians ; yet because the pride and haughtiness are justified by having repeatedly proved himself to be the best , one can not resent them , especially since he usually leaves them on the field of combat .
28 Nigel meditated on whether smashing her trophy might be the best way to make a clean break .
29 It 's a new technology , but it does n't have to be the best technology … ‘
30 He 'd be the best boy with a 'fro ! ’
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