Example sentences of "can best " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously , sorting out the courses which are on offer can best be done by writing for the prospectus but with any application the question that will be of overriding importance is how you are going to finance your training . |
| 2 | He is unable to ‘ switch off ’ his analytic mind , for he becomes possessed of something which can best be described as ‘ special knowledge ’ . |
| 3 | He was one of the first to design TV campaigns : you know , the super-hero voice advising the daffy housewife how she can best clean his clothes ? |
| 4 | Now experiments at the Welsh Plant Breeding Station near Aberystwyth on the Cardigan Bay coast are under way to find which strain of millet can best withstand the intense heat . |
| 5 | But Oxford match secretary Steve Pipkin , who is pegging the length , reckons the team who can best sort out a method for the small fish will win on the day . |
| 6 | The Force welcomes visitors , because its primary role is deterrent , and the Force can best fulfil its mission by showing how effectively a multinational , integrated force can operate in isolated locations on the flanks of Europe . |
| 7 | Since that can best be done by bringing the war to a speedy end , he has begun a new round of diplomacy aimed at a ceasefire and peace negotiations . |
| 8 | Japan 's Matsushita and Sony have each invested more than $5 billion over the past few years in America 's entertainment business , while Time and Warner have merged in the belief that big companies can best exploit a proliferating array of new media . |
| 9 | ‘ But we believe a secure future can best be achieved by continuing to take full advantage of the collective marketing strength of producers , whether acting voluntarily or through the current statutory scheme , ’ he said . |
| 10 | One can best describe their position , in contrast to that of Paisley and Beattie , as being one of reluctant and short-term involvement in politics . |
| 11 | The Tabernacle , he wrote , did not hold ‘ a high-class congregation ’ , and , in a passage quoted earlier , he added that , ‘ the preacher knows that its understanding can best be opened by metaphors and parables taken from the customs of the retail trade , with similes taken from the colloquialisms of the streets ’ . |
| 12 | The need to build hypotheses into pattern-recognizing programs can best be illustrated by referring to the many programs that have been written to interpret line diagrams ( see Figure 12 ) . |
| 13 | The party 's decline can best be traced via the decline in the proportion of people who ‘ identify ’ with it — that is , think of themselves as being Labour supporters even if they occasionally vote for some other party . |
| 14 | It is in islands like the one I have been talking of that one can best speak to the emergent nations about their problems in a relaxed , a hospitable and an egalitarian atmosphere , and against the background of a shared experience . |
| 15 | Values in social policies can best be grasped through a consideration of models of welfare . |
| 16 | Instead the AEC can best be understood as an example of a non-punitive paradigm of probation practice . |
| 17 | As a facilitator of management activities this imposes an opportunity — cost framework in that it encourages the reappraising of how differing expenditure patterns can best make a contribution to achieving organisational objectives . |
| 18 | The peasant economy , which is affected by these processes , can best be defined in Stavenhagen 's words : |
| 19 | Those members of staff who have reservations about the value of a genuine partnership with parents can best be convinced by the successes of many small actions . |
| 20 | Parents are not concerned about other children but their own and the photo may well stir up some resentment which can best be countered by inviting the press in on a regular basis and ensuring that as many children as possible get their picture in the paper . |
| 21 | We can best examine their character as two competing principles of neutrality in the context of objections to political neutrality on the ground that it is impossible or even incoherent . |
| 22 | This can best be done if you are an expert in descriptive geometry . |
| 23 | The change can best be appreciated by comparing Meadville , Pennsylvania , depot of the Atlantic and Great Western ( 1862 ) , with the interiors of the great stations of the 1880s and 1890s . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | That the winning of a British Open championship is a two-man team even can best be illustrated by two of the great tournament 's champions of the past — two immortals who owe a little of their immortality to the men who strode beside them when they made history : when Henry Cotton won his first Open in 1934 , he paid tribute to Ernest Butler of Sandwich , a caddie who was ‘ uncanny with his advice concerning the line of the hole ’ . |
| 26 | Fundamentally this consists in locating the appropriate level of organization at which any issue can best be resolved . |
| 27 | This point can best be illustrated with a couple of size-frequency graphs . |
| 28 | Walkers who have no desire to locate the potholes of Newby Moss and refuse to be deflected from their intention to reach the top of Ingleborough can best achieve their objective by continuing upwards , guided by Grey Wife Sike across the rough and rising terrain of Ingleborough Common . |
| 29 | The aim of this chapter is to show that you are often your own worst enemy in learning and to look at how you can best go about teaching yourself . |
| 30 | For some purposes the action project in operation can best be described directly by the development officers and their support workers ( see for example Murphy and Rapley , 1986 ) . |