Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [art] best [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And 800 of the best fighters in Northern Ireland — including the holders of nine out of 11 Northern Ireland team titles — are to boycott this year 's provincial championships in November . |
| 2 | At 0-0 , they missed 2 of the best chances you 're ever likely to get in a cup tie against a premier league side . |
| 3 | the neighbouring people of Salcey Forest have appeared in such great strength in the forest that the keepers are unable to oppose their cutting down many trees there , and forty of the best trees in Whittlewood have likewise been cut down . |
| 4 | Around 280 of the best pieces comprise the exhibition ‘ The George Ortiz Collection . |
| 5 | We have six really tough games in a row — Norwich , Arsenal , Newcastle , QPR , Scum & Villa — probably six of the best teams around on current form . |
| 6 | NAME six of the best films ever made . |
| 7 | Paul Traynor outlines six of the best walks around Britain to tempt you off the peaks and into the valleys . |
| 8 | If there were one team in the First Division that Forest would not have wanted to face without Pearce it would be Manchester United , who have , in Lee Sharpe , Ryan Giggs and Andrei Kanchelskis , three of the best wingers in the country . |
| 9 | Friends say the singer , at No. 6 with The Best Things In Life Are Free , has dedicated herself 100 per cent to her role in the new movie Poetic Justice , leaving little time for Rene . |
| 10 | Cattle bred by Richard Tudor Jones , acknowledged as one of the best breeders and judges around , are widespread through registered herds . |
| 11 | One of the best resources you can use is a good listener who will allow you to verbalise your doubts and fears aloud and who is capable of listening to you without pressing home their own agenda . |
| 12 | Well , you 've obviously had some bad experiences , but I think one of the , one of the best defences is actually not to sell your wares , I mean who 's interested in your wares , but actually to try and state what you 're doing in such a way that it is of some interest . |
| 13 | The revelation came , if it can be accorded to any single event , when he was back in England , reviewing his collections with one of the best ornithologists in the country . |
| 14 | As one of the best records of 1990 it was actually a lucky escape that it sold so few copies , missed Top Of The Pops , slipped the chance of a slot on youth TV and lost the chase for Sunday newspaper publicity . |
| 15 | For Britain , the country with the most open market and one of the best records in implementing EC directives , the refusal by other member states to end these protectionist tendencies is very serious indeed . |
| 16 | Reviewed last week as the flip to the Maniac Street Preachers ' ‘ Theme From MASH ’ , but here again so that I can say it 's one of the best records I 've heard all year . |
| 17 | Here I go : it 's one of the best records I 've heard all year . |
| 18 | ‘ ONE OF the best records ever made . |
| 19 | I would also like to nail the lie that the Conservatives do n't care about nursery education as put forward by Chris as Mrs already said this morning , Hertfordshire County Council has one of the best records of nursery education in the whole of the country , something like seventy five per cent of the client group currently have part time nursery places . |
| 20 | Daphne came from one of the best families in London , certainly from what I understood to be the upper classes , so once I left St Paul 's I assumed we would never come across each other again . |
| 21 | Carey had , from the beginning , planned for the work to be extended through native evangelists and Krishna went on to become one of the best ambassadors for Christ to his own people . |
| 22 | His Excellency has been one of the best Ambassadors Spain has ever sent us , and his very dear wife has given him so much support . |
| 23 | Inner : one of the best inners I 've seen for a long time . |
| 24 | ‘ He 's one of the best headers of a ball in the League . |
| 25 | Alexei 's sword blade swept round in a great circle and Rostov turned it off with one of the best parries of his life . |
| 26 | There again , we had one of the best encouragements we ever had . |
| 27 | He was one of the best boxers in the school , and a year older than me . |
| 28 | Len was unquestionably one of the best defenders in the 3rd Division South in the mid-1950s , but in addition he was a talented fellow who could turn out in a surprising number of positions ( he actually played in seven different ones for us , and that in a day when ‘ utility ’ players were unusual ) and his Palace career spanned ten seasons . |
| 29 | TONY Scullion has earned an enviable reputation as one of the best defenders in modern day gaelic football . |
| 30 | They are one of the best teams in the world but we will certainly give them a game . ’ |