Example sentences of "best [noun sg] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Best part of breaking up , you making up , best part of breaking up |
| 2 | Best part of breaking up , you making up , best part of breaking up |
| 3 | Breaking up , you , best part of breaking up |
| 4 | Even if you do n't like to fiddle with curlers and tongs you can show off your cut to best advantage by adding more volume and body to your hair . |
| 5 | With experience you will learn how to use bias to best advantage in allowing the nylon to ‘ billow ’ with a curvature that helps to create an aerofoil . |
| 6 | But we also need Conservative policies because those are our best hope for getting the economy into the sort of condition that will ensure that we have real job opportunities in the future . ’ |
| 7 | And the TARDIS is our best hope of getting out of here . ’ |
| 8 | If the squeeze on consumers prevents them from spending more in the next three years , and the government is committed to cutting public sector spending , the best hope of getting the economy growing and refilling the Chancellor 's revenue pots seems to lie with exporters . |
| 9 | Phillip Gates sees the use of surplus agricultural land to make ‘ wildlife corridors ’ as our best hope of helping the natural world adapt to the changes we have set in motion . |
| 10 | The British nuclear industry 's best hope of capturing any slice of the export action would depend on the UK getting experience in building several PWR 's . |
| 11 | The best hope of exporting industrial products is in the developing countries , some of which ( eg the newly industrialised countries ) may also be able to help in the Soviet modernisation programme , particularly the provision of consumer durables . |
| 12 | A Convention , similar to that in England , which met in Edinburgh on 14 March 1689 , eventually decided to offer William the throne , though many Scots , especially the chieftains in the Highlands where the old religion remained strong , still regarded James II as their king , and others , not necessarily Catholic , saw in the dispossessed Stuarts the best hope of regaining Scotland 's lost independence . |
| 13 | But privatisation offers the best hope of producing even bigger gains in the years ahead . |
| 14 | The best hope of breaking the current deadlock may lie in a threat by the European Parliament to take legal action against the Council of Ministers in the European Court of Justice . |
| 15 | Her best hope of surviving it successfully lies in your maturity and willingness to act as a temporary crutch for her and as a quiet stabilising influence until she learns how to walk alone and unaided . |
| 16 | Either way , the best hope of predicting such events , and mitigating their impact , lies in a better understanding of the southern oscillation and its role in the circulation of the southern hemisphere . |
| 17 | Bourgchier may well have thought , as Mancini implies in a narrower context , that to co-operate with the duke rather than opposing him still offered the best hope of warding off disaster . |
| 18 | Bourgchier may well have thought , as Mancini implies in a narrower context , that to co-operate with the duke rather than opposing him still offered the best hope of warding off disaster . |
| 19 | Unless share prices revive , their best hope of keeping up their yields and thus remaining competitive with other savings instruments comes from higher dividends . |
| 20 | Wasps pressed on with another penalty from Young while the students ' best hope of winning possession came from their 6ft 9in lock Derwin Jones . |
| 21 | Stockton South is probably the centre party 's best hope of winning a seat in Cleveland . |
| 22 | ‘ For many tumours of the eye , proton beam therapy is the best hope of preserving useful vision . ’ |
| 23 | A SHOCK call has been made to Wirral Council to jettison plans for a ‘ flagship ’ site which offers the area 's best hope of attracting industrial investment . |
| 24 | IN a shock move Wirral Council is being urged to abandon plans for a flagship site which offers the area 's best hope of attracting new industrial investment . |
| 25 | I think that 's best bit of helping them . |
| 26 | The other best bit about sleeping with Marie is waking up and seeing if she 's awake . |
| 27 | Years of moving from one home to another , having meals cooked for you , never having to think twice about leaving lights on or taps dripping is hardly the best preparation for surviving in a bedsit on a YTS wage of £29.50 a week ( trainees do n't qualify for income support ) . |
| 28 | A committee may be pardoned for insisting on hearing candidates they had never heard , but it is scarcely pardonable that they should expect one who is not a candidate , and whose qualifications they had the best opportunity of knowing , to stake his reputation in any such way . |
| 29 | Work work with your pair , erm , for now , and overnight , what we 'd like you do is , obviously decide for yourself your strategy , but also if you can brief your other half , as to how they need to play that role , to get you the best opportunity of practising the skills . |
| 30 | In many cases , nonetheless , it offers the best opportunity of optimising the use of hill land resources for the nation ( 25 ) . |