Example sentences of "[adv] best [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps best to let it go at that . |
| 2 | It was this — you have now , or should have , at least a sovereign left out of your monthly pay & what survived of the 15/ from the Bank ; so is it not best to send it all to me at once ? |
| 3 | The festival is opening to the public until the end of the week but if you are not an ale fan its probably best to give it a miss . |
| 4 | This history should be looked on as my attempt to explore the history of the College so as best to understand why it has become what it is today . |
| 5 | Many examples of animal behaviour can be seen as evidence supporting the assertion , ‘ Animals are designed so as best to fulfil the function for which they were intended ’ . |
| 6 | Compacts also provide an invaluable forum for dialogue between teachers and employers to discuss and clarify ways in which the curriculum should be developed so as best to provide for the needs and interests of students in and beyond school . |
| 7 | In our natural history ( as elsewhere later in science ) it turned out best to adapt an existing language ; but the man who did it , Ligneous , in the middle of the eighteenth century , came from Sweden . |
| 8 | Given that it would be unsatisfactory to have a single offence , then the question is how best to divide up the forms and degrees of physical violation and of sexual assault . |
| 9 | These sets of analysis are based on empirical attitude research , and the agencies that have constructed them use them to advise their clients on how best to design and position existing and new products on target segments made up of people who have similar life-style patterns . |
| 10 | I can give him the assurance that both he and the local authority in his constituency will have ample opportunity to express their views on how best to design the line to reduce the environmental impact . |
| 11 | But the analyst needs to know how best to design the database and the information systems that use it . |
| 12 | A Labour movement looking to the 1990s would have been been debating single union , no-strike deals and profit-related payment systems rather than how best to call strikes and whether a system of labour tribunals was needed to compensate for the supposed bias of the capitalist courts . |
| 13 | He had something he wanted to say to the Christian world and the question was how best to say it . |
| 14 | The inspector coughed apologetically and placed his hands together , uncertain how best to say what had to be said next . |
| 15 | Peeling potatoes and worrying how best to retain their vitamin C , Scarlet has plenty of time to worry about other things , such as why she is so much more timid than her best friend Constance and what she can do to improve relations between her dour , monotonic husband and Camille , her daughter from her first marriage . |
| 16 | The only question with the Masai seemed to be how best to translate benevolent intentions into administrative actuality . |
| 17 | Not all have agreed on how best to tackle the problem . |
| 18 | It was decided to enlist the help of East Hampshire District Council in an attempt to assess how best to tackle the problem . |
| 19 | It is not easy to decide how best to tackle these questions , and the difficulties that we came up against in discussing the problem of individuation of particulars partly explain why . |
| 20 | A somewhat more difficult question facing the economic reformers at the end of 1989 was how best to tackle the problem of chronically unprofitable state companies . |
| 21 | We will now be considering how best to progress this challenge . |
| 22 | It was one thing to accept the assumption that the state was the dominant actor , but quite another to agree to how best to explain that unit 's behaviour . |
| 23 | Recognising the importance of this issue , we 've been able to develop a three year project , to provide training , advice , and information to voluntary groups , about how best to respond to the contract culture . |
| 24 | A salesperson can therefore usefully spend time considering how best to respond to these recurring situations . |
| 25 | Positive action is therefore needed to encourage the delivery of more flexible support which takes account of how best to support and maintain the role of informal carers ( Griffiths , 1988 , p.7 ) . |
| 26 | Thus policy-makers need to consider not just how to open up employment for lone mothers , but also how best to support those who are not employed . |
| 27 | The particular challenge for donors has been how best to support the fragile but vital process of transition to a pluralist democracy and market economies in the region . |
| 28 | Plans are underway as to how best to display this treasure trove . |
| 29 | Local Management of Schools was introduced to allow schools to decide for themselves how best to spend money to meet their pupils ' needs . |
| 30 | He kept the sack hidden behind hay bales in his Uncle Will 's barn and passed his evening in Mother Russell 's alehouse figuring out how best to spend it . |