Example sentences of "have [to-vb] the best of " in BNC.

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1	One has to make the best of a situation , after all .
2	‘ Well , you 'll have to make the best of it . ’
3	She 'd just have to make the best of it .
4	Usually a limited number of offers can be rejected but there is no guarantee that a subsequent offer will be an improvement , so in many rural districts applicants may have to make the best of either inappropriate housing or housing not ideally located with regard to their workplaces or existing patterns of use of facilities .
5	You 'll just have to make the best of the situation .
6	‘ You 'll have to make the best of it , ’ were the Headmaster 's last words on leaving that morning to catch the 9.22 to Victoria .
7	This grandmother was a lasting influence , ‘ because she always insisted that you had to have the best of everything .
8	But whatever the reason behind it , if there was a reason and it was n't simply someone shaking up names in a box and picking one out here and there , it was like banging your head against a brick wall to attempt to fight against Movement Orders — here she was and she had to make the best of it .
9	But now the thing was out and he had to make the best of it .
10	The real limitation was time ; many students , although they enjoyed the projects , felt the pressure of looming final examinations and said that they were unable to complete their project to their own satisfaction and had to make the best of a bad job in order to work at other , equally pressing , aspects of the course .
11	Labour was in government and had to make the best of it , but the party was with a less numerous support bloc than even the Selsdon Heath of 1970 .
12	They just have to make the best of things and not confuse ‘ sorrow ’ with ‘ despair ’ ; even the hobbits ' schoolboy humour has a point .
13	Well , I mean to say you have to make the best of things .
14	We have to make the best of what we have . ’

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