Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] best [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this sense they are perhaps best viewed as strategic clusters employed to help in the scrutiny of curriculum changes and conflicts . [ … ] |
| 2 | These are perhaps best illustrated by the workmen who , for example , seem to be incapable of doing anything without 20-minute tea breaks , management which seems uninterested in providing proper supervision , or boards which seem more interested in finding ways of jacking up their remuneration package irrespective of performance , or complaining to Government about interest rates , rather than wondering why they are not making some of the flood of goods which our continental competitors find it profitable to sell to the UK . |
| 3 | The latter is composed of a penis which is usually unpaired ( but may be double , as in the Ephemeroptera and some Dermaptera ) and a pair of more lateral structures which are perhaps best referred to as parameres , though this term has been used in several different senses . |
| 4 | In fact their feelings and the vast emotional adjustment they have to make are perhaps best explained to nuclear family dwellers by considering the reverse transplant from nuclear to joint family . |
| 5 | The motor skills domain has received far less attention than the cognitive and affective , and objectives in this field are perhaps best devised from a study of the way skills are learned . |
| 6 | Sexual dysfunction ( the terms " inadequacy " and " incompetence " which are sometimes used , while strictly accurate , nevertheless carry some judgmental and pejorative implications and are perhaps best avoided ) may take the form of unduly reduced sexual desire , reduced sexual pleasure , inability to carry out coitus or inability to achieve orgasm : or any or all of these . |
| 7 | Major and minor 2nds are perhaps best avoided except when an open string can be used e.g. : ( transpose a fifth or a ninth higher for the other strings ) . |
| 8 | Some of the levels of detail that are capable of expression using the method outlined are perhaps best left to implementation . |
| 9 | Those in : ( 30 ) an eager student a poor liar a lousy saint ( with the latter having here its informal sense of imperfect ) are perhaps best considered as ordinary ascriptives which happen to be relativistic adjectives , so that their range of interpretation will vary according to the type of thing assumed to be described . |
| 10 | The third requirement ( that an objective should indicate the standard to be reached ) is probably the most difficult one to meet , for it embraces a whole range of problems and issues that are perhaps best dealt with under the heading of assessment . |
| 11 | My Lords , er would my Noble Friend , subjects are nevertheless best taught by those who have a sympathy for them and in the light of the fact that eighty per cent of er school pupils in the primary sector are taught , th all subjects by the same teacher . |
| 12 | Reaching starts are normally best managed with a timed approach . |
| 13 | Local authorities are generally best placed to exercise the discretion that Parliament has judged appropriate in taking planning decisions . |
| 14 | Secondly , political and economic affairs are not best conducted on the basis of politicians consulting the stars before making economic or military decisions . |
| 15 | Such internal order is highly significant , since it reinforces the point that objects are not best understood as merely subservient to social divisions . |
| 16 | Ideally the conflicts are thus best resolved by non-negotiated partisan action taken by one agency in anticipation of , or in response to , the actions of another . |
| 17 | ‘ Sweaty smells are always best left outside . |
| 18 | Furniture , floors and bookshelves are usually best made in wood and so are things like flagstaffs and yachts ' masts . |
| 19 | Such clouds are usually best developed in eruptions of marine volcanoes . |
| 20 | We can represent the difference between the two as a cline , or continuum , with extreme cases at either end and a range of intermediate possibilities in between : Formal spoken discourse Conversation There are many polar opposites in discourse classification , but they are usually best represented in this way , as we shall see later . |
| 21 | Minimal displays of aggression towards us are usually best ignored . |
| 22 | Very low-calorie diets need to be undertaken with some kind of supervision , and are usually best suited to anyone with more than two stones to lose . |
| 23 | The reports are usually best known by the name of the committee 's chairperson — ‘ The Plowden Report ’ , ‘ The Warnock Report ’ and so on . |
| 24 | Systematic differences between Catholics and Protestants which have been observed are probably best characterized as regional differences , since for example East and West Belfast Protestants each perceive the accents of the other group as distinctive ( L. Milroy 1980 ) . |
| 25 | Given the price inelasticity argument , changes in duties in the annual budget are probably best seen as motivated by revenue-raising considerations . |
| 26 | Minor movements of less than a hundred metres or so are probably best regarded as interruptions in one main cycle . |
| 27 | Care managers can come from a wide range of professional backgrounds though social work professionals are probably best trained for the role . |
| 28 | The military type shackles will fit your Land Rover and are probably best sourced from a Land Rover breaker as the last time we purchased new they were virtually impossible to obtain . |
| 29 | Judging the tension in the runners is difficult for someone who does n't drive a sled , and the lashings are probably best left easily untied for a final adjustment by the user . |
| 30 | Briefing sessions , in which failures and why they occur are discussed , are probably best held with outside counsellors rather than company staff . |