Example sentences of "[conj] is best [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Properly used , such a file provides an excellent compromise between the extremes of sequential processing with very rare enquiries that is best handled by sequential files , and direct processing with very infrequent sequential processing , for which direct files are most suitable . |
| 2 | It is not a ‘ how to do it ’ text but rather one that is best read in conjunction with an RYA Level 1 course . |
| 3 | Norwegian Jacquard : This stitch design option will allow you to knit many different colours in a design style that is best described as based on the traditional Scandinavian type of pattern , where small designs are laid on to a multi-coloured striped background . |
| 4 | The attitudinal use of intonation is something that is best acquired through talking with and listening to English speakers , and this course aims simply to train learners to be more aware of and sensitive to the way English speakers use intonation . |
| 5 | But the bird that is best known for extracting insects from wood by means of a tool is the woodpecker finch of the Galapagos Islands . |
| 6 | It is scarcely feasible for the communes to set up the apparatus to assess local household incomes ; this is a matter that is best left to the republics and provinces . |
| 7 | The waterfall , however , is a hundred yards downriver and is best reached by walking back along the road for fifty yards to the end of a wall , where a step down in the undergrowth discloses a good path high on the river bank above a deep gorge , the waterfall soon being seen through a canopy of foliage . |
| 8 | Free discussion about the quality of the work of the learner is also necessary , and is best done away from the bedside . |
| 9 | Making improvements to existing , uninsulated , timber or concrete floors is likely to be highly disruptive and prohibitively expensive , and is best done as part of a major renovation programme . |
| 10 | The most difficult operation is transferring the ants to the housing , and is best done out of doors . |
| 11 | Holborn Viaduct is decorated with assorted figures and the arms of the City , and is best seen from Farringdon Street . |
| 12 | It has very low surface brightness , and is best seen with low powers as an oval blur . |
| 13 | Most of this happens in three dimensions and is best seen from this canal as roads snake through the air in all directions . |
| 14 | The sternocoxals are the sternal promotors and remotors of the leg while the lateral intersegmental muscle runs from the sternum to the pleuron or tergum of the succeeding segment and is best developed in larval forms . |
| 15 | The diagnostic purpose is particularly important and is best exemplified by a discussion of miscue analysis . |
| 16 | A worn braid feels rough and is best cut away and the line joined by a blood knot . |
| 17 | It has a specific gravity of about I .4 , a refractive index of about 1.55 and is best detected by the van Wisselingh test — treatment with concentrated potassium hydroxide at 160- C for 20 minutes converts it to chitosan which gives a rose-violet colour with 0-z per cent iodine in 1 per cent sulphuric acid ( Campbell , 1929 ) . |
| 18 | Workers ' behaviour , he argues , is really a response to managerial control , and is best understood as a counter-attempt to assert workers ' own control ( 1963 , p.6 ) . |
| 19 | This problem may be seen as the converse of the one discussed at the beginning of this section — defining a complete set of alternants for a variable — and is best demonstrated by example . |
| 20 | Watten is the largest Caithness loch , three-and-a-half miles long by up to three-quarters of a mile wide , and is best fished from the boat . |
| 21 | Excessive fading can occur if a rug is exposed to long periods of strong sunlight , and is best avoided by either relocating the rug or putting it in storage for the summer . |
| 22 | The conflict between efficiency and effectiveness , particularly in sensitive services like education and social services , is extremely difficult to resolve , and is best left to individual judgments , which really means the judgment of those most concerned with the development of the service . |
| 23 | Signals are mainly detected by observing behaviour to see which activities predictably lead to changes in the behaviour of others , but this kind of evidence is philosophically unconvincing , and is best supplemented by experiment . |
| 24 | As for MTM ( which took its name from US actress Mary Tyler Moore , its founder , and is best known in Britain for Hill Street Blues and Lou Grant ) Mr Gatward said it would take between 18 months to two years before the company was turned around . |
| 25 | As for MTM ( which took its name from US actress Mary Tyler Moore , its founder , and is best known in Britain for Hill Street Blues and Lou Grant ) Mr Gatward said it would take between 18 months to two years before the company was turned around . |
| 26 | Mlle Adjani , who made her first film , Faustine , at the age of 16 and is best known for The Story of Adele H , is now working on new film projects and promoting Christian Dior . |
| 27 | American Technologies set up shop in Warsaw in 1990 , and is best known as one of two local distributors of printers from IBM Corp spin-out Lexmark International Inc . |
| 28 | Birthright is a charity which funds research projects to improve the health of women and their babies , and is best known for its work on pregnancy and childbirth . |
| 29 | We have found that this sort of discussion requires a certain amount of structure , but a great deal of flexibility , and is best carried out in environments other than our normal working environment . |
| 30 | There is an increase in risk due to irradiation of the breast , but this is likely to be small and is best estimated from a woman 's age and dose of irradiation . |