Example sentences of "are in the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As end-user programming becomes more prevalent , these small tasks will shift largely to the user organizations , which are in the best position to make rational resource allocation decisions . |
| 2 | The permanent ward staff are in the best position to encourage learning . |
| 3 | Within that framework schools and education authorities are in the best position to judge the particular form which the curriculum should take in the light of each school 's individual circumstances and the needs of its pupils . |
| 4 | ‘ It is important that your bank knows everything about your business so that if you have to go to them for help they are in the best position to five assistance . |
| 5 | I would remind the surgeons involved in such instances that they , and not the duty psychiatrist , are in the best position to know if an operation is in the best interests of the patient . |
| 6 | The people who are in the best position to compare the costs , uses and potential of different national labour markets are often the decision-makers of Transnational Corporations ( TNCs ) . |
| 7 | What happens if these new powers are seized by those in power already — who , after all , are in the best position to seize them ? ’ |
| 8 | The TECs are in the best position to make informed judgments about the qualities of particular providers . |
| 9 | The Gracious Speech is that annual event when our Queen and her Government set out for this Parliament those national and international policies that are in the best interests of the United Kingdom , and only the United Kingdom , whether they relate to domestic legislation , to our defence commitments or to those foreign policy objectives which , to quote my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary , protect and promote the British interest . |
| 10 | There is no local opposition to trust status because people are beginning to understand that trust status means the devolution or delegation of decision-making power to those who are in the best position to make the decisions about how local hospitals should be run . |
| 11 | Please inform the parents that my brother and I are in the best of health . |
| 12 | With a timetable to them we are in the best place to do it now cause we 're still learning we have only done three jobs , four now have n't we ? erm the Kathy procedure is definitely needed . |
| 13 | Voluntary organisations er , can do this and are in the best place to undertake this . |
| 14 | The Whitburn side , who eased into the Royal Bank Scottish Women 's Cup final by beating Streamline Hazlehead on Saturday , believe they are in the best shape possible for the match . |
| 15 | The poorest tenants are in the poorest accommodation , starved of resources for self-help and political help , because their leaders are also their landlords . |
| 16 | St Andrews , Strathclyde , Aberdeen , Durham and Dundee are in the highest group in this category , reflecting a research orientation towards the sciences concerned , which include astronomy , materials science , climatology and meteorology . |
| 17 | He came , towards the end of the nineties , to believe that there are erm there must be things which are in the strictest possible sense non-mental , and which would be what they were , even if there had never been any minds that were conscious of them . |
| 18 | In a place like Kingston-upon-Hull in Humberside , 68% of homes are in the lowest ( £40,000 and under ) band , and fewer than 1% are in either of the top two bands ( more than £120,000 ) . |
| 19 | Whitlow 's survey also shows that non-agricultural land in Zimbabwe is not seriously affected by erosion , since 95.2 per cent of these areas are in the lowest erosion classes ( Fig. 7.3 ) , and that in Zimbabwe there are 1.83 × 10 6 ha of eroded land overall , of which 83 per cent occurs in the Communal Lands . |
| 20 | More boys than girls are in the lowest mathematics sets although quite a number obtained fairly high test scores on the GT4 test . |
| 21 | Engineers of this discipline are in the greatest demand , and receive the highest salaries at an early age , Imagine also that the raw material used by these engineers has been rapidly increasing in abundance and dramatically decreasing in cost over a period of 20 years . |
| 22 | It is generally true that people are in the greatest difficulties when the external world confirms their worst fears about themselves , and are at their happiest when it confirms their best fantasies . |
| 23 | ‘ Dicky 's remarks are in the worst possible taste . ’ |
| 24 | Theoretically , Poland are in the strongest situation — they have home advantage for their final match , after all . |
| 25 | Leaving aside for the moment differences in personal qualities and skills , which may or may not vary with the curriculum , it would seem that graduates who can offer both expertise and ability are in the strongest employment position , those who offer either one or the other may also find a job niche , but that those who offer neither are worst off . |