Example sentences of "of the best [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the best documented cases concerns the so-called ‘ wolf-children of Midnapore ’ . |
| 2 | The flashcard is a simple example of one of the best documented principles of memory ; things that are stored together tend to be recovered together . |
| 3 | The 790s are one of the best documented decades in Anglo-Saxon history and this enables the years of crisis which followed the establishment of Offa 's dominant position to be comprehended in some detail . |
| 4 | Certainly at about the beginning of late Cretaceous times we have one of the best documented transgressions of all time . |
| 5 | One of the best documented tales of the sighting of a sea monster occurred in 1852 , when a whaling vessel , the Monongahela , netted and took aboard a creature which was rather like a cross between a snake and a crocodile . |
| 6 | Media is one of the best documented jobs around , but as well as being able to assimilate all these facts and figures , media people need to be good mixers , good talkers and skilled negotiators . |
| 7 | ‘ United are one of the best counter-attacking sides in the country . |
| 8 | Finally , one of the best kept secrets of the decade until its unveiling in 1988 was the Redland self-discharge aggregates train , a permanently coupled set of hopper wagons with a conveyor belt running underneath and a special unloading vehicle at one end . |
| 9 | This tacit admission that something had gone seriously wrong with the original expectation of atom-fired electricity ‘ too cheap to meter ’ has been one of the best kept secrets in the whole nuclear power debate . |
| 10 | The initiative was confined to a small circle — Churchill , Eden and the Chiefs of Staff — and I described the episode in The Times , after the 1952 papers had reached the Public Record Office in January 1983 , as ‘ one of the best kept secrets in the 1950s ’ . |
| 11 | SHEILA JORDAN — one of the best kept secrets in jazz , sings without a net . |
| 12 | The mournes are one of the best kept secrets of the British Isles , which is strange considering they are n't exactly inconspicuous , are celebrated in both song and verse and are featured prominently in every piece of literature ever published by the Northern Irish tourist boards . |
| 13 | The Partito Popolare continues its sniping with parliamentary questions about her plans : ‘ Whatever Corral may have in mind , ’ says the parliamentarian Miguel Angel Cortés , ‘ is one of the best kept secrets in the kngdom ’ . |
| 14 | She said : ‘ I can honestly say Pete 's work is one of the best received exhibitions we have ever staged . |
| 15 | Therefore , EF-1α is a multifunctional protein being it able to interact with nucleotides , nucleic acids , ribosome and other proteins ; furthermore , its comparison with Escherichia coli EF-Tu is stimulating since the latter is one of the best studied GTP binding protein ( 1 ) . |
| 16 | Although much of their business was conducted in Anglo-Norman ( which developed a literature of its own ) there is little to suggest that ‘ English ’ magnates were ignorant of the best written French . |
| 17 | A dramatization of stories in verse and prose for children from eight to eighty , featuring some of the best loved characters from children 's fiction : the Pied Piper of Hamelin , the Little Prince , Winnie the Pooh , Christopher Robin . |
| 18 | Scottish Opera promises a ‘ delightful evening ’ of music from Vienna — and that is putting it mildly , for they have chosen a stunning programme of the very best of the best loved highlights of Viennese operetta . |
| 19 | The Cork area still boasts some of the best rallying country in Ireland and I understand this year 's route includes many of the classic stages from the region . |
| 20 | Not only are they one of the best campaigning organisations around , keeping the welfare of British birds well up on the conservation agenda , their quarterly magazine is full of interesting information on different species as well as tips on the best places to go . |
| 21 | It will be the most modern in Britain and one of the best equipped centres of its size in the world . ’ |
| 22 | One of the best known approaches as to how decisions ought to be made is that of Simon , who developed the behaviour alternative model . |
| 23 | Scotswood Road and the Armstrong Vickers factory used to be one of the busiest places in Newcastle , ( it even earned a mention in one of the best known Geordie songs — hence the programme 's title ) with the factory employing most of the residents . |
| 24 | Lingula is one of the best known genera . |
| 25 | That is , the use of the royal prerogative as the legal backing for the management of the public service , the principle that a civil servant is a servant of the Crown and holds office at the pleasure of the Crown is one of the best known principles of constitutional law , hallowed by usage and sanctioned by the courts . |
| 26 | For those who do n't know it , the Haute Route runs from Chamonix to Zermatt in the Alps and is one of the best known routes in Europe . |
| 27 | a ) A UK classification of social class : one of the best known classifications divides the UK population as follows : |
| 28 | A Comedie Franaise actor , he joined the Underground and found his way to London and the B.B.C. to become one of the best known announcers on Les Franais Parient aux Franais , banned by the Nazis but heard throughout France . |
| 29 | One of the best known china shops in the world and holder of warrants to no less than nine royal houses before the First World War , the company commissioned and sold glass and china from different factories . |
| 30 | Abu Sueir , was a pleasant station , well-established and well-run by one of the oldest group captains in the RAF , and the adjutant was none other than " Happy " Day or " Wings " Day perhaps one of the best known officers of the pre and postwar RAF , " Happy " was indeed a character much larger than life , and even today when I meet a fellow student from my course in the RAF Club , he related with tears streaming down his cheeks an incident when " Happy " was taking the course on rifle drill . |