Example sentences of "and [is] best " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for MTM ( which took its name from US actress Mary Tyler Moore , its founder , and is best known in Britain for Hill Street Blues and Lou Grant ) Mr Gatward said it would take between 18 months to two years before the company was turned around . |
| 2 | As for MTM ( which took its name from US actress Mary Tyler Moore , its founder , and is best known in Britain for Hill Street Blues and Lou Grant ) Mr Gatward said it would take between 18 months to two years before the company was turned around . |
| 3 | Sea salt is usually available in coarse or fine grades and is best used from a salt mill as a condiment . |
| 4 | is milder than black and is best used with fish , white meats and delicate sauces , where both the flavour and appearance of black pepper would be inappropriate . |
| 5 | Watten is the largest Caithness loch , three-and-a-half miles long by up to three-quarters of a mile wide , and is best fished from the boat . |
| 6 | The atmosphere of the little town is that of an age long gone and is best appreciated in late evening when the daily influx of sightseers has departed ; then , in silence , a visitor feels an intruder in a very private community in a fairy-tale setting unrelated to reality . |
| 7 | The waterfall , however , is a hundred yards downriver and is best reached by walking back along the road for fifty yards to the end of a wall , where a step down in the undergrowth discloses a good path high on the river bank above a deep gorge , the waterfall soon being seen through a canopy of foliage . |
| 8 | This is actually the simplest form of meditation and is best suited to the beginner . |
| 9 | Holborn Viaduct is decorated with assorted figures and the arms of the City , and is best seen from Farringdon Street . |
| 10 | Free discussion about the quality of the work of the learner is also necessary , and is best done away from the bedside . |
| 11 | The war was in fact fought largely in the Mediterranean and is best remembered for the execution of Admiral Byng , in March 1757 , for his failure to protect British-held Minorca . |
| 12 | Siporax requires a much lower flow rate than yours , and is best suited to sitting in plant baskets in an upflow chamber . |
| 13 | A worn braid feels rough and is best cut away and the line joined by a blood knot . |
| 14 | Mlle Adjani , who made her first film , Faustine , at the age of 16 and is best known for The Story of Adele H , is now working on new film projects and promoting Christian Dior . |
| 15 | 2.25:GOLD CUP hero Cool Ground was beaten a long way behind Tipping Tim at Wetherby three weeks ago , and is best watched for the time being . |
| 16 | Though it 's dotted with snappy slogans , the whole thing is less slangy than before , and is best described as cyberpunk prose poetry . |
| 17 | True , the black cows , apparently of no fixed abode , that used to saunter along the streets and back lanes , foraging and friendly , have gone , and Edmund MacKenzie has moved his shop to new premises , but otherwise Plockton today is as it has always been within my memory , and is best appreciated in the evenings when the day trippers have departed . |
| 18 | Making improvements to existing , uninsulated , timber or concrete floors is likely to be highly disruptive and prohibitively expensive , and is best done as part of a major renovation programme . |
| 19 | American Technologies set up shop in Warsaw in 1990 , and is best known as one of two local distributors of printers from IBM Corp spin-out Lexmark International Inc . |
| 20 | We have found that this sort of discussion requires a certain amount of structure , but a great deal of flexibility , and is best carried out in environments other than our normal working environment . |
| 21 | It has very low surface brightness , and is best seen with low powers as an oval blur . |
| 22 | Potted crab is very rich in flavour as well as in content , and is best appreciated quite on its own , perhaps as a midday dish served only with crisp dry toast , to be followed by a simple lettuce salad or freshly cooked green beans or purple-sprouting broccoli eaten when barely cold , with an oil and lemon dressing . |
| 23 | The most difficult operation is transferring the ants to the housing , and is best done out of doors . |
| 24 | The diagnostic purpose is particularly important and is best exemplified by a discussion of miscue analysis . |
| 25 | It has a specific gravity of about I .4 , a refractive index of about 1.55 and is best detected by the van Wisselingh test — treatment with concentrated potassium hydroxide at 160- C for 20 minutes converts it to chitosan which gives a rose-violet colour with 0-z per cent iodine in 1 per cent sulphuric acid ( Campbell , 1929 ) . |
| 26 | The sternocoxals are the sternal promotors and remotors of the leg while the lateral intersegmental muscle runs from the sternum to the pleuron or tergum of the succeeding segment and is best developed in larval forms . |
| 27 | Excessive fading can occur if a rug is exposed to long periods of strong sunlight , and is best avoided by either relocating the rug or putting it in storage for the summer . |
| 28 | The conflict between efficiency and effectiveness , particularly in sensitive services like education and social services , is extremely difficult to resolve , and is best left to individual judgments , which really means the judgment of those most concerned with the development of the service . |
| 29 | The partnership was not a success , and is best remembered for McLaren 's ploy of persuading the group to perform onstage with a hammer and sickle banner , offending even their deeply buried atavistic feelings of patriotism . |
| 30 | This problem may be seen as the converse of the one discussed at the beginning of this section — defining a complete set of alternants for a variable — and is best demonstrated by example . |