Example sentences of "best [noun sg] be [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In such cases the best course is for the lease to remain silent , leaving problems to be resolved as and when they arise . |
| 2 | On a wire launch the best hope is for the car or winch driver to build up extra speed to get the glider as high as possible . |
| 3 | The case would be pursued through the House of Lords , ‘ but we recognise that our best hope is in the European Court of Human Rights . ’ |
| 4 | The best route is through the Marktgasse , from which the full effect of the cathedral 's symmetry can be felt . |
| 5 | But his best work is in the past , whereas Greene kept up a continuous output over many years — there 's nobody like that now . |
| 6 | MacWhirter , though settled in London from his middle years on , was a Scottish painter whose best work was in the tradition of landscape painting traced back to the early seventeenth century . |
| 7 | This year 's best seller was Save The Earth by Jonathan Porritt which was published simultaneously in 17 countries in local languages and has so far sold more than 500,000 copies . |
| 8 | Now it happens that everyone 's instinctive belief that the best site is at the ‘ centre of gravity ’ of the sources and markets is incorrect in this problem — the best site tends to be at the source or at a dominant market in many cases : this point failed totally to emerge . |
| 9 | The best outing is to the neighbouring island of Lanzarote with its spectacular sandy beaches , extraordinary lunar volcanic landscapes , plunging cliffs , and white-washed villages . |
| 10 | His best finish was in the 1972 Italian Grand Prix at Monza when he finished second to Emerson Fittipaldi . |
| 11 | It was declared the best policy was for the ‘ sent down ’ youth to remain where they were so that they could make their valuable contribution to the motherland on the ‘ agricultural front ’ , as in previous decades . |
| 12 | If a guarantee is to be given , the best approach is for the parent company to become a party to your contract and it is desirable for the document to be under seal . |
| 13 | The best approach is for the patient to be totally independent if at all possible . |
| 14 | The yardage booklet advises : ‘ It demands a longish tee shot up the left , but the best approach is from the right . ’ |
| 15 | However , probably his best performance was in the Hennessy Cognac Irish Gold Cup at Leopardstown where he led for most of the trip before tiring and finishing fourth behind subsequent Cheltenham hero Jodami , Chatam and General Idea . |
| 16 | We looked into all sorts of different buildings , and that would be suitable , and we 've decided the best thing is on the shipping containers , they 're water proof , they 're vandal proof , and they 're recycled as well , which helps . |
| 17 | For society as a whole , as it were , the best thing is for the students to put all their money into the public account . |
| 18 | The best position is under the ferret 's throat — there it will stay in place and is unlikely to slip . |
| 19 | The best time was in the winter when the snow was so bad I could n't walk the mile across the fields to school . |
| 20 | So the word is that the best bet is on the appointment of another academic ( Sir Roger himself , though just due to become president of the Publishers Association , is expected to return to his chair of physics when he retires from the press in the summer ) . |