Example sentences of "best [det] can [be] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We need periodically to consider whether existing methods are the best that can be devised for dealing with crime in the context of society as it is at a given time . |
| 2 | Apart , then , from those for whom the virtue of representative democracy is precisely that it restricts and restrains popular power , and even , as in Britain , involves the vesting of sovereignty in the representative institutions rather than in the people themselves the chief argument in defence of representative democracy has been an essentially pragmatic one : that it is the best that can be devised in the context of large societies where the citizens are too many and too scattered to be gathered together in one place . |
| 3 | This is the best that can be hoped for , even if it is a long way from a fully satisfying life . |
| 4 | The best that can be hoped for , on their behalf , is that human beings are kindly disposed towards them . |
| 5 | Secondly , issues of social policy are peculiarly sensitive and dependent on domestic policy and prevailing social conditions , so that even within the European Community the best that can be hoped for is a set of minimum standards . |
| 6 | The best that can be hoped for is that government intervention improves the social efficiency of resource allocation , rather than achieving optimality . |
| 7 | You know that from here on in the best that can be hoped for is a sufficient economic upturn , plus a helpful nudge from the boundary redistributions , to carry you back into power — again probably , with a modest parliamentary majority and all the headaches it brings . |
| 8 | Figure 6.3 is about the best that can be done with the lunar data at present . |
| 9 | The best that can be done in trying to meet the air quality standards is to persuade each emitter to reduce emissions to meet some emission standard , which will ultimately be based on someone 's judgement of what is ‘ good practice ’ . |
| 10 | The best that can be said about marriage laws is that some of the variation may be explained along the lines proposed here . |
| 11 | So indeed it might have pleased him , for as has subsequently become clear , the best that can be said about the debate , from the Prime Minister 's point of view , is that he had one facet of the truth while General Maurice had another . |
| 12 | The best that can be said of his success on that occasion is that it postponed the period of uncertainty that a split in the party would bring . |
| 13 | But ‘ not bad ’ is about the best that can be said for it . |
| 14 | The best that can be said for Manne 's argument is that as the risks of insider dealing increase , ‘ not trading ’ trading may become more popular . |
| 15 | The best that can be said for the education available for the children of the eighteenth-century poor is that it managed to maintain the levels of the later seventeenth century . |
| 16 | The four ships represent the best that can be bought in a European shipyard . |
| 17 | The original position seems to presuppose not just a neutral theory of the good , but a liberal , individualistic conception according to which the best that can be wished for someone is the unimpeded pursuit of his own path , provided it does not interfere with the rights of others . |
| 18 | Mostly these are the best that can be managed in what is basically an inequitable relationship . |
| 19 | This history of the Club 's competitions and trophies is rather fluid and imprecise , and the following list is the best that can be arrived at . |