Example sentences of "[verb] be the good " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the injunction to directors is that they must act bona fide in what they , and not the court , thinks are the best interests of the company . |
| 2 | The women 's game is much more open today and Gabriela Sabatini has been the best player on the women 's tour this year . |
| 3 | ‘ I think Neville Southall has been the best goalkeeper in England for a long time , but now he has been joined by others like David Seaman , Tony Coton and Chris Woods . |
| 4 | The ones you want are the good long ones are n't they ? |
| 5 | Bassett said : ‘ What directors and fans sometimes forget is the good times a manager has given them . ’ |
| 6 | He said : ‘ What directors and fans sometimes forget is the good times a manager has given them . ’ |
| 7 | What I want is the best government for Rhodesia . ’ |
| 8 | I am trying , within the context of the debate , to identify how we can move forward from the 1990s to the 21st century , the problems that we as a nation will have to face , our relationship with Europe and how we can learn from the nations that we have said are the best , such as Germany , and develop a sound strategic regional policy . |
| 9 | The size and volume of the contracts secured is the best safeguard for the future of the coal industry . |
| 10 | And yet above that and beyond that what you were seeking to do was not just to serve the Board of World Mission and Unity , it was to serve what you believed was the good and right for the church of god which you have sought to serve and to support and to take further . |
| 11 | At the age of 77 he still trains regularly , keeping fit he says was the best part of his career . |
| 12 | Idea-having is the best antidote to the common problem of going round in circles ( see Going round in circles on page 76 ) . |
| 13 | He was another butcher , you see , he bought the other cart and my father kept the best , this cart you 've got was the best cart , yeah . |
| 14 | Late risers always exasperate early risers like myself , who hate to miss what they know is the best part of the day . |
| 15 | ‘ Streamline is the best beginner 's course on the market . ’ |
| 16 | He added : ‘ Short term relief or a good night 's sleep to help you recover is the best you can expect . ’ |
| 17 | Being lunged is the best possible way to establish an independent seat . |
| 18 | I was still not allowed out of doors , except on the lawn on fine days , and it must not have been the good luck of many ‘ fishy ’ characters to have had their letters posted by one of ‘ Their Lordships . ’ |
| 19 | In the circumstances I should have been the good daughter , studious and uninterested in boyfriends . |
| 20 | He could have been the best footballer in the world if he 'd have bothered turning up and stuff , ’ Gedge told Sounds . |
| 21 | ‘ It should have been the best holiday of our lives but it was terrible , ’ said Deborah , also 24 . |
| 22 | It was a big house , at least four good bedrooms , and the garden must have been the best part of two acres . |
| 23 | ‘ He was the worst leader of what should have been the best cause in the world . ’ |
| 24 | With Senator McCarthy 's campaign against treason in the State Department having just got under way this may hardly have been the best time for dispassionate analysis although , if it is not too academic a point , one can not help comparing these propositions with an earlier assessment ( 13 October 1948 ) . |
| 25 | Those nerve-racking hours , with the armies drawn up in battle array in sight of each other , can hardly have been the best of times for a calm discussion of the problem of the succession . |
| 26 | ‘ It would have been the best thing you could ever have done for me . |
| 27 | It should have been the best day of my career but it turned into a nightmare . ’ |
| 28 | He declared that the ANC and its allies wanted " peace and democracy " and that " if the government … responds in the same spirit , our action will have been the best thing that could have happened to the negotiations process " . |
| 29 | Well presumably with , what we 're trying to do is create some sort of alternative family units , we do n't want , although , er , laudable what the youth service does , is , we would n't want , if they do n't want to plugged , clubbable together , if , if , if , if the , the unit could provide that , or provide alternatives to pick up the , the correlation between that and , and ordinary normal family unit , I would hope that that would have been the best way forward , erm , er , because often some youngsters are in this situation because they , they have n't found the , that sort of provision has been helpful for them . |
| 30 | Even though its evolutionary course was eventually destined to lead it into the complicated and probably costly distortions involved in having two eyes on one side , even though the skate way of being a flat fish might ultimately have been the best design for bony fish too , the would-be intermediates that set out along this evolutionary pathway apparently did less well in the short term than their rivals lying on their side . |