Example sentences of "the best " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forward planning and good communication are the two foundation stones that must be in place to guarantee that people ill with HIV have the best choices and continue to enjoy the very best quality of life , wherever they choose to be . |
| 2 | Our new 24 page full colour schools booklet has been widely acclaimed by teachers and pupils as the best AIDS resource they have ever seen . |
| 3 | In a follow-up survey , the great majority rated it the best AIDS resource they had seen . |
| 4 | AMUSING AND POETIC : THE BEST CRITICISM |
| 5 | It is an additional pleasure to recognise his prophetic power of divining where the best art was to be found . |
| 6 | The best criticism is that which is both amusing and poetic ; not a cold , mathematical criticism which , on the pretext of explaining everything , has neither love nor hate , and voluntarily strips itself of every shred of temperament . |
| 7 | Thus the best account of a picture may well be a sonnet or an elegy … as for criticism properly so-called … |
| 8 | In 1942 Lu Hsun was quoted by Mao Tse-tung as asserting that the aim of a modern Chinese artist should be : ‘ By selection to accept the historical legacy of Chinese traditional art ; to absorb the best style and technique from foreign art ; and thus to establish a new national art in accordance with the demands and needs of the masses . ’ |
| 9 | The best preliminary plan may be for the reader to open the book upright at ( the illustration ) and then go to the other side of the room , to be imposed on from a distance : it is the nearest the book can offer to the proper first encounter with the figure . |
| 10 | Comparison of illustrations of the same picture in several publications will demonstrate this truism , while the best test of looking at a reproduction in front of the picture itself can be a disheartening experience . |
| 11 | In a monograph , the author has the best chance of a free hand . |
| 12 | The auction houses employ considerable skill to ensure that the best possible prices are obtained for their clients , but all the same , a good eye and a well-stocked memory may still outwit their expertise . |
| 13 | The museum made the best of a bad job . |
| 14 | The critic is also likely to spot the gaps in a group show , when the best works are not being shown , say perhaps because they are in private collections . |
| 15 | Salim 's outlook incorporates a version of that of his friend Indar , who teaches in the polytechnic for a while , and lends himself to the philanthropic white-liberal cultivation of the African experience , where some of the best comedy in the book is located . |
| 16 | He had lived with his past for the best part of fifty years , and his book tells what he had come to know of it over that interval of time , with help from the theories of Marx and Freud . |
| 17 | The familiar and approved accounts of Scottish life have long favoured a country of hills and fields and firesides , where braw lads and bonny lasses dance reels and go on , after early struggles , to better things ; where the best thing of all is the kind landed family that comes up from London to visit them , famous for its stables , castles and ceremonies . |
| 18 | True art , or the best art , has a dialogic structure , many voices , and so has the good society . |
| 19 | Two of the best plays to read from this period are Tourneur 's The Revenger 's Tragedy , and Webster 's The White Devil . |
| 20 | But talent can be developed and trained and provide a sound basis for you to give of the best there is inside you . |
| 21 | The best way to find out about what is available to you more locally is to contact your County Drama Adviser and also the Regional Arts Association for your area , who will have details about part-time training for young actors ( see Appendix A ) . |
| 22 | Undoubtedly one of the best ways the overseas student has of seeing what is required in British theatre training is to apply for one of the summer schools offered by the drama schools , and find out what it 's all about before committing him- or herself to a long and expensive stay . |
| 23 | The next step is to prepare for the audition at a drama school and find the right kind of textual material which will allow you to show the best of yourself . |
| 24 | For movement and dance , the Pineapple Studios in the same part of town seems to be one of the best there is , though it is not intended primarily for dancers and actors — people from all sorts of professions come along to keep fit . |
| 25 | Can you say what the best things are from your drama school experience and what has been of most value to you during your first year in the profession ? |
| 26 | So for new actors coming into the business of acting what do you advise as the best possible course of action ? |
| 27 | Perhaps the best decade was the sixties when we played a lot of Shaw , Wilde and Ibsen . |
| 28 | It is the most important medium for getting known by the general public and affecting the attitude of employers but the theatre is still the best place for learning your trade . |
| 29 | It is up to each one of us , he wrote , at every point in our lives , to decide how much order and how much disorder , how much discipline and how much freedom we need for the best realization of our project of the moment , even though that project may turn out to be flawed or even utterly mistaken in the short run , of course I am only talking about the short run , he wrote , in the long run , as I have already said , both success and failure are quite without meaning , the notion of meaning is quite without meaning . |
| 30 | I had a feeling it would be for the best , I said , when I stopped on the hard shoulder that day . |