Example sentences of "[prep] best [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Doctrine is at best a circular re-statement of the obvious : Why did I experience those vibrations in the air as sounds ? |
| 2 | This is at best a corrective belief , for whatever else Ulysses or The Waste Land are doing , they are also invoking for us the Dublin of 1904 or the London of 1921 . |
| 3 | When English was established in British universities criticism played at best a minor part in it . |
| 4 | Lewis was subtle enough to see that this was at best a half-truth , and perhaps he was beginning to sense that what Tolkien 's friendship had to offer him was something rather more important than a regress to me nursery . |
| 5 | When he plays Sibelius with the New York Philharmonic tomorrow , a rare appearance here , they expect at best a draw . |
| 6 | It strongly suggests that GPs ' concern for civil liberties was considerably outweighed by their concern for treatment : at best a conceptual inability to distinguish between treatment need and treatment requirements combined with curtailment of civil liberties ; at worst something more sinister . |
| 7 | … one can not begin to understand a number of contemporary English novelists unless one realises that to them Joyce 's way is at best a cul-de-sac . |
| 8 | At best a needlessly expensive chemical is used where a cheaper , equally effective detergent , would suffice . |
| 9 | Although dualistic it was quite different from Platonism : cosmic time was not the moving image of eternity but ‘ at best a caricature of eternity , a defective imitation far removed from its model ’ . |
| 10 | I had expected Gillis to be long since dead or at best a doddering ninety-year-old . |
| 11 | For everyone in higher education would agree that A levels are at best a very rough and ready guide to a pupil 's future development . |
| 12 | Publishers ' blurbs — i.e. the brief descriptions of books on the insides of dust covers — may sometimes be used as selection information by librarians , and are certainly a very important factor for readers selecting from library shelves , though they constitute at best a dubious selection instrument for librarians and readers alike . |
| 13 | When Springhall writes that adolescents gave their allegiance to ‘ society ’ , this is at best a half-truth . |
| 14 | They now recognised that their plan to send some intelligent lads for education in farriery to such continental schools would be at best a rather feeble stopgap measure , while in any case the revolutionary situation in France was not favourable to the original Odiham plan . |
| 15 | Indeed , time as treated in physics is at best a series of abstractions . |
| 16 | The over-used saying ( sometimes incorrectly attributed to Confucius ) that ‘ one picture is worth more than ten thousand words ’ ( see Stevenson , 1948 , for its actual derivation ) is at best a half truth . |
| 17 | At best a displeased kuei will overturn furniture or pinch children 's faces ; at worst it will bring sickness or death to the home . |
| 18 | Heralded by the media ( for whom it was largely designed ) , it was at best a mixed success . |
| 19 | For it would encourage a reliance on schematic knowledge and a corresponding avoidance of an engagement with the systemic features of the foreign language , or at best a tactical use of them which would not lead to their internalization as a more general strategic resource . |
| 20 | What was at best a speculative investment six months ago by five of the six major accountancy bodies , the BBC and accountancy trainers BPP , looks now as if it could turn into a roaring success . |
| 21 | If The Lord of the Rings should approach too close to ‘ Gospel-truth ’ , to the Christian myth in which Tolkien himself believed , it might forfeit its status as a story and become at worst a blasphemy , an ‘ Apocryphal gospel ’ , at best a dull allegory rehearsing in admittedly novel form what everyone ought to know already . |
| 22 | I told myself that my intention was maintenance of the status quo , but this was at best a half-truth . |
| 23 | Because nothing can travel faster than light , an object that can vary its output of energy within a period of a few days can be at best a few light-days across . |
| 24 | Elsewhere in the country , however , the idea met with at best a lukewarm response , and evidence of the existence of classes exists for only about a quarter of English counties . |
| 25 | The Estlins hoped that at best a merger of the BFASS and others could be achieved . |
| 26 | IBM has invested so much in the development of , and so much more in the marketing of , OS/2 2.0 that it has to plough on with it even if in 18 months ' time it becomes clear that it is becoming at best a respectable also-ran in the desktop stakes . |
| 27 | Dragons of Flame is at best a weak beat-'em up , and could never cut the mustard as a bona fide roleplayer . |
| 28 | This is so , because economics is at best a technique that is both partial and complementary to other disciplines . |
| 29 | Clearly such arrangements were not ideal — they could be exhausting for children and were at best a compromise among the law , the need for education , and the reality of poverty . |
| 30 | There are numerous difficulties in making an historical study which depends entirely on written evidence , which may not represent the experience of the mass of children , and is at best a distillation of the views of the literate classes . |