Example sentences of "[prep] the best of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All this may be done for the best of reasons but it only ensures that children bottle up their feelings as well as their tears , which , as we have seen in previous chapters , can have far-reaching effects . |
| 2 | In reality there is little Chris does not know , for the best of reasons — his constant personal participation at the toughest end of the game . |
| 3 | A not untypical background of an early headhunter was someone who had had general management experience and had worked in one or more functional roles , and then found themselves , for the best of reasons , on the market . |
| 4 | A significant number of the executive search consultants in the major firms have chosen , for the best of reasons , to come into this role and find it a challenging and stimulating career in itself . |
| 5 | PHIL Sorenti decided to launch himself off the tallest building on campus for the best of reasons . |
| 6 | Recent scholarship suggests that the tactic of anonymity may have been employed for the best of reasons . |
| 7 | All I can say is that it was for the best of reasons . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I did all the wrong things for the best of reasons , ’ she whispered sadly . |
| 9 | but the point I 'm trying to make is that the person who made the presentation er o o on er for , for the best of riders , I think he 's rather missed the point because he was talking to you about the , including , more information on er within the T V P and we did discuss , er we did like to make it quite clear during our er discussions that riding of horses on the highway is a matter for the T V P , riding horses on bridleways is a matter that we will have to deal with in basic in time . |
| 10 | Scholes 's proposal to teach the ‘ cultural text ’ as well as the ‘ literary text ’ makes good sense ; but , for the best of motives , he tends to a brisk simplification in his approach . |
| 11 | We would hate to see him invite his mother to a similar jaunt , even for the best of motives . |
| 12 | Jayne 's even got her husband Phil with her as sound engineer on their latest nationwide tour , billed as The Best Of Torvill and Dean . |
| 13 | go to the supermarket and I would bung it of the best of stuff . |
| 14 | By all reports this appears to be an amalgamation of the best of Word 3 and MacAuthor but , until our review copy arrives judgement is withheld . |
| 15 | Last of the spring blooms to reach my desk are Tangled Up In White ( Hodder and Stoughton , £14.99 ) an anthology of some of the best of Peter Roebuck 's sharply intelligent articles on cricket and The Guinness Book of Cricket Captains ( Guinness , £14.99 ) , the second large book about Test captains recently published . |
| 16 | Now this is not perhaps one of the best of Spitzer 's analyses , and in any case it contains a great deal more than we have space to repeat here . |
| 17 | He is a shining example of the best of football . |
| 18 | One of the best of lemon graters is lump sugar , although Hannah Glasse ( The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy , I747 ) who was perhaps partial to a pun , directed her readers to grate lemon skins with a piece of broken glass . |
| 19 | Sir William has been a very fine example of the best of Australia . |
| 20 | If it is difficult to change habits like smoking or drinking , despite the best of intentions , then the switch to nut steaks and vegetable lasagne might be just as painful , and for those forced to it because of the unavailability of meat it would also be deeply resented . |
| 21 | I left with no passion for any single plant or creature but for all of Nature — its ruthless innocence , its secretiveness and startling revelations , the changing seasons and sense of time in a whole that was timeless , like the best of childhood . |
| 22 | ‘ We used to lie around a swimming pool in Peking chatting like the best of friends , ’ he later recalled , ‘ But it was all too sickeningly sweet … |
| 23 | Unlike many of the guerrilla leaders who are unknown except to the intrepid few who visit their frontline hideouts , Arkan rebels are in the public limelight like the best of Hollywood 's gangsters . |
| 24 | ‘ It was done with the best of motives . |
| 25 | So sixty-four dealers packed the cavernous 7th Regiment Armory on Park Avenue with the best of Soho and 57th Street , giving less experienced or timid buyers easy access to everything from Old Master drawings to contemporary sculpture . |
| 26 | The Foster 's World Club Challenge , attended by 30,786 , proved , however , two things other than that the competition deserves to continue : the best of Britain can live with the best of Australia ; and Widnes are a team of immense character . |
| 27 | Woe to those they serve who are clad in silk , loll on couches , and fill their bellies with the best of food and the richness of wine . |
| 28 | This , therefore , is a chronicle of failure , though a gallant failure and of a project engaged in with the best of intentions . |
| 29 | The Problem of Pain was written with the best of intentions . |
| 30 | The inspector should not allow himself to be led , often with the best of intentions , by people proud to show off the area . |