Example sentences of "as the good [noun sg] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More conventional thinkers in the Labour leadership saw discretion as the better part of valour and held their fire . |
| 2 | From what I can recall of his earlier set for EMI ( 12/85 ) , these more recent 1991 recordings ( made in Hanover 's Beethovensaal ) certainly demonstrate a recognition of discretion as the better part of valour . |
| 3 | The consultants called in by the Home Office identify computers and information technology generally as the best way of saving time . |
| 4 | The chartered company continued to be regarded as the best type of organization for carrying on overseas trade , but a grant to an individual proprietor began to be seen as the best way to set up a new colony to which settlers would come to cultivate the land . |
| 5 | The next four instruments depend for their efficacy upon incorporation into contracts , though a codification of custom and usage could perhaps be relied on as the best evidence of custom and usage and as such be imported by implication into a contract , whilst the adoption of general contractual conditions is not the exclusive prerogative of private parties but can also be achieved by embodiment in bilateral or multilateral Conventions implemented by dispositive legislation in the various participating States . |
| 6 | Word of mouth is regarded as the best kind of advertising . |
| 7 | Posidonius enjoyed describing those strictly hierarchical banquets of the Celts in which people challenged each other to mortal duels on fine points of honour , such as the best piece of meat . |
| 8 | Could n't such a course serve as the best sort of bridge between the two cultures ? |
| 9 | What becomes clear is that a parent must listen to the individual school 's advice on what they see as the best sort of homework to give and in what amounts . |
| 10 | ANALYSTS AND THE CASH FLOW STATEMENT Analysts may not view the annual report as the best source of information about a company , but they do prefer the cash flow statement to the funds flow statement |