Example sentences of "[vb past] the good [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | They made the best discovery of all . |
| 2 | Rutherford again made the best stand of the innings , for the fourth wicket , with the captain who was n't keen on having him in the team . |
| 3 | When Chandler nearly scored himself near the end , Shaw , the former First Division goalkeeper with Bristol City , made the best save of the evening . |
| 4 | That is because it is an area where Marx and Engels , misled by Morgan , went most wrong , yet where at the same time they made the best use of anthropology . |
| 5 | A panel of experts decided Kate 's winning menu made the best use of French cheese and awarded her the top prize a Concorde flight to Paris for a supersonic celebration . |
| 6 | Subsequent decisions on strategy concerned the best use of American resources in the European theatre of war , and here the British Prime Minister , Winston Churchill , played an important role in 1942 . |
| 7 | Lancashire rider Ian Newton produced the best performance of his career when he won the 250cc class in the second round of the European road-racing championship at Kirkistown , County Down . |
| 8 | It seems the French got the better part of the deal when the Eurodisney share price was announced in the City yesterday with all the overkill we have come to expect from the Americans . |
| 9 | At first Anne felt indignant with Joe , but when she thought it over , realised the good sense of his warning . |
| 10 | The beginning of the end : Australia provided the best race of 1992 |
| 11 | The management consultants who undertook this study concluded that , within the context of the two-tier system in administrative counties , area committees provided the best method of reconciling the rights of individuals with speed of decision , low cost and the interests of the wider community . |
| 12 | With hindsight it perhaps seems strange that one of the indisputably greatest figures in the whole of Western art devoted the better part of his life to sell-advancement , and to painting the King , his family , and their attendant dogs , dwarves and sycophants Certainly the irony of this , together with the fact that this inbred family of often considerable mental as well as physical fragility should have controlled the destiny of so vast an empire , is not lost on Gironella . |
| 13 | He and my hon. Friend the Member for Beaconsfield posed the best question of the debate when they asked whether it could apply to rail . |
| 14 | After lengthy negotiations , which kept raising the price , an over-extended General Motors paid $4.5 million for Cadillac in 1909 , and then used the good name of Leland and Cadillac to borrow more money to expand its empire further . |
| 15 | Reared by the pupils , all 12 and 13 , it was fattened and pampered , shampoo 'd and scrubbed — and then judged the best pig of all , Supreme Champion . |
| 16 | Loudon 's avowed objective , ‘ the amelioration of the great mass of society in all countries ’ , may appear to a modem reader grandiose , but to the Victorian reformer a bloodless revolution in housing seemed the best way of avoiding the carnage already witnessed on the European mainland . |
| 17 | It seemed the best way of unifying gravity with the other forces . |
| 18 | ‘ I played the best round of golf I 've ever played to get into the play-off , so rather than feeling disappointed I 'm feeling very confident . ’ |
| 19 | The engaged tone bleeping in Robyn 's ear confirmed the good sense of this judgement , but she put down the receiver reluctantly . |
| 20 | I think I can say I walked the best part of the rivers in my district . ’ |
| 21 | Self-isolated as he was , ‘ Uncle Pepi ’ none the less displayed the best kind of condescension , and was in fact unusually collegial — not so much with youngsters like myself , of course , but with more senior medical figures , like Thilo and Wirths . |
| 22 | Two of the institute 's researchers spent the best part of two years observing . |
| 23 | In all , he spent the best part of four hours in the water , before meeting up at Gloucester Cathedral with the Bishop of Tewkesbury ( above ) , who had walked the 10 miles along the river bank ( a much more sensible idea ) , the culmination of a week-long pilgrimage around his diocese . |
| 24 | Ward spent the best part of two decades living in Taylor 's shadow , initially as a player at Lincoln and Watford and then as his assistant at Vicarage Road and Aston Villa . |
| 25 | Redknapp spent the best part of six months recovering from serious head and leg injuries after the horror crash near Rome involving a mini-bus in which he and ex-Aston Villa star Tiler were travelling . |
| 26 | Shopworkers who spent the best part of a day locked out of work are sympathetic with the police , but angry with the terrorists . |
| 27 | The bravest of the brave : Fullback Jim Staples prepared to clear his lines as All Black skipper Sean Fitzpatrick — who lost the best part of two of his front teeth to an Irish fist — hems him in during the record 59–6 loss to New Zealand in Wellington . |
| 28 | By slow degrees , the world of the bloodstock sales lost the best part of its consuming interest for Dada . |
| 29 | However , for the last three seasons they 've been disappointed — unless like me , they were lucky enough to chance a late holiday and hit the best powder of the season . |
| 30 | Boswell needed the good opinion of the Establishment as a lizard needs the heat of the sun . |