Example sentences of "are best [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Except for the strongest constitutions , coastal walking , bird watching and easel painting are best reserved for milder seasons . |
| 2 | I have had good catches before the moon rises and have also done well after it has set , but periods when the moon is bright at night are best ignored . |
| 3 | There are two ancient mild steel peg belays here , but they are best ignored in favour of something a touch more modern . |
| 4 | There appear to be mountings for the transformer but once again I suspect that these are best ignored for safety reasons . |
| 5 | Returning to higher mammals , you will recall that fibres entering the primary visual cortex are best activated by spots of light with dark surrounds on the retina . |
| 6 | Services are best organized along multi-agency lines , with a range of detoxification facilities , drop-in clinics and day care and residential units . |
| 7 | The main reason is that — though some problems are local and are best studied that way — many others ( even involving a limited geographical extent ) are best understood within a global framework . |
| 8 | But they are best followed up later ( when the heat is off ) with some discussion of what took place . |
| 9 | If you collect plates or similar items , which are best displayed vertically , a grooved shelf installed at about picture rail height provides an answer . |
| 10 | Such structures are best displayed graphically ( even parliamentary draughtsmen have resorted to flowcharts for the definition of some more complex legislation ) . |
| 11 | The full implications of this are best indicated if we observe that far more is involved in it than merely the uniqueness of the revelation in Jesus , solely the issue whether there is genuine access to knowledge of God in any other place . |
| 12 | Key areas where ‘ perverse incentives ’ are most likely to pressurise NHS and SSDs after April are best indicated by the Institute of Health Services Managers ' evidence to Parliament , where it complained that there was no satisfactory delineation of social care from health care . |
| 13 | Water conditions are best assessed at Carrbridge . |
| 14 | On the well-known principle that new dog and cat foods are best tested by feeding them to , respectively , dogs and cats , the vintage crop of 1982 books on astronomy was therefore fed to members of the Astronomy Department of Glasgow University experienced in both teaching the subject and researching in it . |
| 15 | Some say that hunting in old burned-over sites when the oak leaves first appear is a good and fruitful strategy , but others insist that morels are best collected in old apple orchards at the time when the lilacs bloom . |
| 16 | Using this method of breeding Killifish , the eggs are best collected by hand and hatched in small dishes or tubs . |
| 17 | Although these functions have remained essentially unchanged since the early 1970s , there have been a number of changes in the way they have been carried out , which are best examined by looking at the balance sheet of the discount market ( Table 17.8 ) : |
| 18 | Power and ideology are best examined in situ , in the course of continuing negotiations and disputes , and this approach dictates a combination of interviews and observations . |
| 19 | Initial requirements , specifications and user-system interfaces are best composed in terms of English-like languages . |
| 20 | Black box units are also easier to add an existing pond than many other types of filter , which are best incorporated when building the pond . |
| 21 | Salami are best served as an antipasto , in sandwiches , with salads or eaten with a little cheese and fresh crusty bread . |
| 22 | The modern mass media fit very well into communist notions of society as a collectivity , the name given to the ‘ masses ’ of workers and peasants whose interests are best served by a vanguard political party . |
| 23 | In that aim it is abetted both by nature conservation bodies — duped by the MoD 's tendentious Defence and the Environment prospectus of three years ago , into believing that the area 's interests are best served by the public being kept out — and by factions within the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority , most of them with a military background , who also tug their forelocks to that aim . |
| 24 | Other auction houses have chosen to hold periodic sales around Europe outside main selling centres ; however , after studying their results , we have found that , at this time , vendors are best served when their property is included in high-quality specialised sales held in familiar salerooms . |
| 25 | The great projects of understanding have now reached such a scale that , in many cases , they are best served by the united efforts of all the world — or at least , of all those who are interested in pursuing them . |
| 26 | The argument outlined in Chapter 3 is that the long term interests of society are best served by a set of regulatory arrangements designed to deter at all levels the misuse of inside information . |
| 27 | The Houston office provides coverage of the American markets and helps ensure the Group 's commercial interests are best served in this highly important area . |
| 28 | The future and prosperity of the north-west are best served by a Government who are determined to keep inflation down , who want to keep taxes down — and will not let interest rates rise as the Opposition would — and who recognise that the level of strikes is at its lowest for more than a century . |
| 29 | He suggested that people 's interests are best served by pursuing personal gains . |
| 30 | The argument presented here is that in the latter part of the twentieth century more and more capitalists have come to believe that their objective interests are best served through transnational practices , as evidenced by the phenomenal growth of the presence and influence of the TNCs outside the hegemon countries , and what I am describing as transnational capitalist classes . |