Example sentences of "best be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | postmodernism can best be defined as European culture 's awareness that it is no longer the unquestioned and dominant centre of the world . |
| 2 | I would suggest that a sexual problem might best be defined as an obstacle to the satisfaction of sexual need — that need which arises in us partly from innate instinct and urge , partly from the circumstances of any given time , and which is tempered by our personal upbringing and development , our moral outlook and the social norms to which we subscribe . |
| 3 | Regalism can best be defined as Erastianism and it represented little more than the modernization and systematization of the traditional claim of the crown to control what it considered the temporal aspects of church government . |
| 4 | The peasant economy , which is affected by these processes , can best be defined in Stavenhagen 's words : |
| 5 | But while its range of activities and interests was broad , its cultural identity can best be defined in a particular cultural form , which was in effect a new kind of novel . |
| 6 | It can best be expressed by reference to Walker 's ( 1984:6 ) definition of ‘ structural incrementalism ’ which : |
| 7 | Thus a person 's wealth or a company 's assets can best be expressed in money terms . |
| 8 | The ASB still takes the view that appropriate disclosures of this kind can assist users of financial statements , but in the light of the responses to FRED 1 concluded that the concept can best be developed within the ASB 's proposals for an Operating and Financial Review to support a company 's annual report — ie as part of a wider discussion of a company 's performance . |
| 9 | True creativity in any art can best be developed within the framework of a thorough understanding of the nature and history of that art . |
| 10 | What they are trying to buy are assets which can best be developed by Palatine itself , including some which can only be developed by Palatine as an independent brewery . |
| 11 | In his younger days his acquaintance with the anarchist Prince Peter Kropotkin had suggested to him that the fundamental principles of social order ( for Radcliffe-Brown , the ‘ structure ’ and ‘ function ’ of social institutions ) might best be discerned in simple self-regulating communities without formalized governmental authority . |
| 12 | Samuel strongly advised that MacDonald should be persuaded to stay on as head of the existing government or some " reconstituted " Labour Cabinet or , failing these alternatives , of a National government made up of members of the three parties ; the necessary but unpalatable economies affecting the working class could best be imposed by a Labour government . |
| 13 | This fear of the mob has continued to haunt the executive , who saw that control could best be determined by the installation of a professional police organization formulated on strict hierarchic , semi-militaristic lines , and possessed of discipline , obedience , and loyalty . |
| 14 | Revision of aseptic technique may best be covered by one-to-one teaching , whereas the care of the terminally ill patient may best be discussed at a tutorial . |
| 15 | For she had actually been engaged in the very pleasant task of deciding which room in her new house at Far Flatley might best be converted into a nursery when a messenger had come from Frizingley with the awful news . |
| 16 | Perhaps this position can best be tested by taking an extreme example — a crime which it would seem to be impossible to accept as being within the ‘ normal ’ range of human motivations : sexual abuse of children . |
| 17 | Dawyck Gardens could be an expensive taxi journey from Peebles as they are not on the back road to Innerleithen ; the Southern Upland Way is 212 miles long , not 202 ; Dunslair Heights can best be reached from Lee Pen by sticking to the ridge and taking a firebreak from the south ; and the suggested route from Byrness to Chew Green along Harden Edge saves no distance over the normal route outside the fence , while taking the walker one kilometre inside the MOD warning signs . |
| 18 | You must understand the habits and characteristics of the crops you plan to grow and how they can best be fitted to the potential of your land . |
| 19 | This relationship can best be explained with reference to Fig. 4.10 : the shape and position of the curve are determined by the following factors : |
| 20 | Reagan was supported by an exceptionally talented staff in his first term and it might be said that his legislative triumphs can best be explained by the quality of the team around him . |
| 21 | The relationship between Projects and Forum can , perhaps , best be explained by some examples . |
| 22 | University officers will be pleased to advise anyone considering this possibility on how such bequests can best be arranged in a way which will be of greatest benefit to present and future students . |
| 23 | From Deleuze and Guattari , Lecercle picks up the idea of the potential violence of the institution of language which , as they point out , is not so much a neutral entity that can best be analysed by looking at " normal " ( i.e. declarative ) sentences as a series of other people 's slogans organised into a system of power-relations . |
| 24 | JACQUES DELORS , President of the European Commission , told West Germany that its hopes for reunification would best be served by working for a more federal Community , implying that this might one day embrace East Germany . |
| 25 | But there was agreement on one simple point : that if diversity was really needed it would best be served by a quite different approach from that advocated by the CEGB . |
| 26 | The American Stock Exchange has changed its mind and decided not to suspend trading in the Class B and Class C common shares stocks of Wang Laboratories Inc at the close of business on March 31 , as had previously been announced : it says the decision reflects its view that investors will best be served by a continuation of the orderly trading provided by its auction market system , but warns brokers and prospective investors to review Wang 's public disclosures on its reorganisation plan thoroughly before leaping in , and to consider carefully the many uncertainties over the value — if any — of its present classes of common shares outstanding . |
| 27 | I replied that as far as I was concerned his terms and conditions of employment were best used as a rectal implant preferably without benefit of anaesthetic , which roused him to suggest that perhaps the whole matter would best be served by being turned over to the florid authority of Her Majesty 's Judiciary , via PC Plod , or at the very least to some banal tribunal vested with the right to dilly-dally over contretemps between master and servant . |
| 28 | Unstated was the belief that the American Central Intelligence Agency had a hand in the downfall and death of Lumumba who had appealed to the USSR , and thereby upset the United States and also Britain ( Macmillan wrote ‘ our long-term interests would best be served by … a Congo Government … largely depending on American rather than Russian aid and support ’ ) . |
| 29 | This interest can best be served by all responsible members of the scientific community beginning and sustaining an objective , scientific , honourable , and openminded face to face dialogue based on the actual and official tenets of clinical ecology/environmental medicine . |
| 30 | Finally , they consulted an educational psychologist who advised the parents that , in view of their constant travelling Emma 's needs would best be served by a boarding school to provide her with some stability . |