Example sentences of "[noun prp] [is] best [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Buchi Emecheta is best remembered for her first book , In the Ditch , an autobiographical account of life in 1960s London for a young Nigerian woman with five children . |
| 2 | O'Leary , for example , has argued that the abolition of the GLC is best understood as an act of ‘ policy folly ’ . |
| 3 | Mr Chandler is best known for his book ‘ The Visible Hand ’ , published in 1977 , which chronicled the rise of managerial capitalism in America and won him a Pulitzer prize . |
| 4 | However , it is as an active patron of architecture that Hope is best known , where he used his immense wealth to provide the tangible realization of his Gothic aspirations . |
| 5 | It is , however , for his accomplished monumental sculpture that William Stanton is best known . |
| 6 | CLIFF Burgess of Portchester is best known to Mid-Hants Railway members through his association with the Working Omnibus Museum Project which is creating a vintage bus collection in the former coal yard of Medstead and Four Marks Station . |
| 7 | For Norris the provocative sloganistic phrases by which Derrida is best known will make true sense only when restored to the contexts from which they have been taken . |
| 8 | Reading is best taught in the classroom when teachers build on this basis . |
| 9 | The 19th century explorer and illustrator , Walter Hood Fitch is best known for his flamboyant yet accurate drawings which have made a lasting contribution to our knowledge of the plant world and to the art of botanical illustration . |
| 10 | The 19th century explorer and illustrator , Walter Hood Fitch is best known for his flamboyant yet accurate drawings which have made a lasting contribution to our knowledge of the plant world and to the art of botanical illustration . |
| 11 | The Belgian-born Hepburn is best known for her roles in such classics as My Fair Lady and Breakfast at Tiffany 's . |
| 12 | ‘ Atkinson is best running at them and nobody is doing it better . ’ |
| 13 | Yet , ask the average mastermind of today what Priestley is best remembered for , the reply is usually ‘ He discovered oxygen ’ . |
| 14 | Upper Silesia is best considered through application of the usual principles relating to the conferring of benefits upon third parties ; the question is then whether the allies intended to confer benefits upon Poland , and whether they in fact did so . |
| 15 | Mr Sekula is best remembered as vice-premier in the same government . |
| 16 | Catherine is best seen , in the last analysis , in essentially the same terms as Frederick II . |
| 17 | Defending champion Malcolm Rigby from Newton-le-Willows is best placed to challenge the leader . |
| 18 | It was shown in Australia during the summer that Wigan 's Shaun Edwards is best suited to stand-off . |
| 19 | Meades is best known as a supercilious architecture and restaurant critic , and his prose is richer than foie gras with chocolate sauce . ’ |
| 20 | The Da Toto is best known locally for the local dishes served in its good restaurant and Citalia guests will dine on three or four courses each evening of rustic , Tuscan specialities , with the added attraction of unlimited wine and mineral water included in the price . |
| 21 | Just as America has diverse regional economies , so Britain is best seen as a series of distinct local markets . |
| 22 | Education in Britain is best seen in pyramidal terms . |
| 23 | Thatcher further stated that " … a stable security structure in Europe is best guaranteed by the maintenance of NATO and the Warsaw Pact " . |
| 24 | Floya flies with Virgin Atlantic , perhaps Europe 's best known independent airline . |
| 25 | Jaggard is best remembered as joint publisher and printer of the First Folio of Shakespeare ; printing was completed in late October or early November of 1623 , around the time of his death ; he is named in the colophon , but the title-page ( probably printed last ) names Isaac , who on 4 November became printer to the City of London ‘ in the place of William Jaggard his late Father deceased ’ ( Guildhall records : Letter Book JJ , fo. 51 ) . |
| 26 | Sir John Harvey-Jones is best known as a troubleshooter for multi-million pound companies . |
| 27 | Mr Peebles is best known as a film and television actor . |
| 28 | Aethelred is best known in his later years for his support for Wilfrid , exiled bishop of York . |
| 29 | DAAN VAN DER MEULEN is best known in English-speaking circles as the first reliable explorer of the Wadi Hadhramaut in South Africa , a little-known , wild region , riven by tribal feuds , hardly explored , and fraught with danger for the outsider ; though he himself would probably have liked to be remembered equally for his services in the Dutch colonial administration in Sumatra . |
| 30 | Val Taylor is best known in equestrian circles as the person every horse with a toothache wants to know . |