Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] the best [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The results reveal little departure from the traditional view that applicants from large , old-fashioned institutions make the best employees , although UMIST and Loughborough are ranked highly , largely because of their more vocational courses . |
| 2 | The old axiom that hungry fighters make the best ones is countered by the quote from young , struggling players : " Eat beans , and play like beans … " |
| 3 | Now he , allied with Peter Thorburn and Earle Kirton , will have the chance to develop his playing methods using the best players in the land . |
| 4 | Together we spent many painstaking months refining the best features from all the entries into one package . |
| 5 | Managing director Brian Chamberlain asks his clients to negotiate the best terms they can , then ‘ come back to us . |
| 6 | Nor are most of our prisons overcrowded and some of our training prisons and young offender institutions match the best systems in Europe . |
| 7 | Public utilities such as electricity , gas , water and telecommunications provided the best examples of what were considered to be natural monopolies , although when technological advances are made , certain industries formerly classed as natural monopolies may cease to be so ( eg telecommunications ) . |
| 8 | Today 's vacuum cleaners have a confusing array of features , so GHI tested a range of models to find the best buys |
| 9 | Inadequate local health services for low-income groups and long queues of patients at hospitals have prompted health planners to explore the best ways of improving government health facilities . |
| 10 | Education secretary John Patten says the tables will help parents choose the best schools . |
| 11 | To establish a tropics-wide base for sustainable timber production , permanent ‘ forest estates ’ have to be established in the producer countries , with high public profiles and proper controls and more co-operation between the trade and environmental movements to create the best conditions for such management in appropriate forest lands . |
| 12 | It is not unusual to find that countries adopt the best parts of both strategies in order to tackle air pollution problems . |
| 13 | Single crystal samples with polished surfaces give the best results . |
| 14 | Visit Malham at mid-day on a sunny Bank Holiday and it will be " fair thranged wi' folk " , yet wait until evening when the charabancs have gone and the cars have motored their way back downdale , and Malham becomes again a quiet little place , the only noise coming from the Hikers ' Bar of the Buck Inn where legions of Pennine Way pilgrims have slaked their thirst ; or from the bar of the Listers Arms where Dalesfolk have been coming for years to taste the best steaks in the Dales . |
| 15 | Public schools have had hundreds of years to monopolize the best combinations of stripes , and T M Lewin & Sons will happily sell you anything you request by name — that you know what to ask for usually being deemed proof enough that you are entitled to it . |
| 16 | Single capacity was supposed to reduce conflicts of interest as brokers found the best prices from jobbers for their clients and jobbers competed amongst each other to produce fair prices . |
| 17 | Low-level ozone pollution is triggered by the action of sunlight on vehicle exhaust emissions , with still , sunny days providing the best conditions . |
| 18 | In practice we have found the combination ( i.e. mean ) of ranks to give the best results , but tends to produce tied combined ranks frequently . |
| 19 | This information is potentially very valuable for those in a position to help families to find the best ways of supporting the patient at home in the process of rehabilitation . |
| 20 | The latter are intended to offer a set of principles providing the best solutions to typical problems in contract law . |
| 21 | This work has made a great contribution to our understanding of the subject , although the structural diversity of port wine stains confounds the best attempts at mathematical modelling and there is no substitute for good clinical assessments and comparisons of different laser systems . |
| 22 | But Coun Paul Harford , leader of the county council , said : ‘ What must be made clear to Mr Robb is that the five local authorities in Cleveland the county council , Hartlepool , Middlesbrough , Langbaurgh and Stockton have jointly commissioned the Institute of Local Government Studies to investigate the best options for local government structures within Cleveland for the future . |
| 23 | We have developed rubber plantations , coal mines and other modern industrial amenities in cooperation with the hard-working Annamese , and all these ventures serve the best interests of both the French and the Annamese peoples . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'd like to see the best refs take the best games . |
| 25 | We hope that the new external verification procedures incorporate the best features of the old systems and , in addition , offer a harmonised approach which centres will find helpful . |
| 26 | This has sometimes been justified on security grounds but often the argument has been that disclosure is not in the public interest , that " secrecy is at all times the condition in which the best men make the best decisions . " |
| 27 | In a survey of carers and schizophrenia sufferers , the police got the best ratings for care of the mentally ill , followed by GPs , psychiatrists , and social workers |
| 28 | The lines on the graph show predicted population sizes using the best estimates of the parameter values . |
| 29 | Prost clocked a record qualifying lap time of one minute 21.179 seconds to eclipse the best efforts of team mate Damon Hill , and must now be a warm favourite to seal his fourth world drivers ' title with victory tomorrow . |
| 30 | According to these data , in most communities studied , those babies had the best chances to survive infancy who were born after a three or four year interval . |