Example sentences of "make 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 Full-back Wadsworth 's ‘ remarkable accuracy ’ turned defence immediately to attack by the way he could ‘ take the ball from an opposing forward and send it to the forward he thinks will make the best use of the pass ’ ( Examiner ) .
7 I 'd be the first to admit that we do n't always make the best use of our review space from the manufacturer 's point of view , because we mention what we feel is important to our readers and not what the manufacturer wants us to promote , though the two will often coincide .
8 To help you make the best use of our services , we have a network of Customer Care Units who will be pleased to give you advice or help , and also handle any complaints you may have .
9 How can you make the best use of lecture notes ?
10 As the Archbishop of York observed : ‘ they have shown that it [ planning ] should embrace the whole country , and that without it we can not make the best use of the limited space in our small island ’ ( p. 160 ) .
11 Always keep a dishwasher in the kitchen rather than the utility room , so that you can make the best use of it .
12 To meet these aspirations we must make the best use of our human , technological , material and financial resources and this must be done within the framework of a well planned and a well managed system .
13 Do schools make the best use of external agencies ?
14 We hope the following few paragraphs will help you make the best use of the services available .
15 In the case of the powerpack they have been greatly influenced by the work of Professor Thring and his colleagues , and have proposed a hybrid powerpack which would make the best use of an internal combustion engine and electric motor and would reduce fuel consumption by some 50% and toxic emissions by 80% .
16 However , it is probably the students themselves who , through the experience of a wide variety of modules , can make the best comparison of demands , workloads and standards .
17 ‘ There is some irony in the fact that helping other companies make the best use of their existing premises — by installing mezzanine floors or space-saving racking systems — has meant that we have had to move to new premises to cope with the workload , ’ said Mr. Jeary .
18 While other options were being carried out , and before the text was ready to receive entries for completely new words and meanings , it might well be desirable to begin to assemble these new entries and hold them ready in advance , so as to speed production and make the best use of the system 's storage capacity .
19 Get the truth from Piper , make the best use of it , then unload a few unnecessary encumbrances .
20 Linked to the mobility allowance is a voluntary organization called Motability , which helps disabled people make the best use of their allowance to acquire a private car by leasing on hire purchase .
21 Er other big issues are how we actually make the best use of European money .
22 What is questionable is whether they make the best use of this information , particularly of that which , if they were competent to extract it , could be deduced from the companies ' published accounts .
23 Reflecting the property market changes , surveyors are moving back to helping property managers make the best use of their assets .
24 Within the limits imposed by the descriptors , ie mandatory learning outcomes and performance criteria , centres are free to implement PSD modules in a variety of ways to meet local needs and make the best use of existing resources , including the expertise of teaching staff and others .
25 You 'd feel you had n't made the best use of your time here .
26 But they have made the best use of their resources .
27 Mildred dived for Ethel 's bench , knowing that Ethel would have made the best potion of all , and there it was , dark green and bubbling in the cauldron , with a half-full test-tube conveniently spilling a puddle of the liquid onto the bench .
28 I should still have thought that in securing him from Bolton Wanderers I had made the best bargain of my life . ’
29 Food was still rationed and it was very much a question of making the best use of available resources and we had absolutely unlimited demand — a very false situation as it turned out when you think about what happened to British industry afterwards .
30 Perhaps the most important regular question to keep asking yourself , even have it up on your wall where you can see it often , is : Am I making the best use of my time right now ?
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