Example sentences of "best [noun] of [v-ing] " 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 | And the TARDIS is our best hope of getting out of here . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But privatisation offers the best hope of producing even bigger gains in the years ahead . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Unless share prices revive , their best hope of keeping up their yields and thus remaining competitive with other savings instruments comes from higher dividends . |
| 17 | Wasps pressed on with another penalty from Young while the students ' best hope of winning possession came from their 6ft 9in lock Derwin Jones . |
| 18 | Stockton South is probably the centre party 's best hope of winning a seat in Cleveland . |
| 19 | ‘ For many tumours of the eye , proton beam therapy is the best hope of preserving useful vision . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I think that 's best bit of helping them . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In many cases , nonetheless , it offers the best opportunity of optimising the use of hill land resources for the nation ( 25 ) . |
| 26 | What is the best piece of driving you 've ever seen ? |
| 27 | The members of the Board have to decide on the best methods of bringing work and money into the region . |
| 28 | Let us clear the alternatives out of the way ; while they are often brought into discussions on the best methods of sharing knowledge with undergraduates , they have but limited scope , and there is no doubt that you must learn to handle lectures as the first step towards a fruitful co-operation with the staff at your college . |
| 29 | It seems irresponsible and morally indefensible to intervene in clients ' lives if you are uncertain about what can be achieved and the best methods of doing so . |
| 30 | One of the best methods of understanding the functions of a bank is to analyse its balance sheet . |