Example sentences of "[art] best [verb] " in BNC.

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1 It was thought that " if the certaine or standing water had been drained , that all the 7 works would conic into one , and that then it would be the best worke that ever was in these parts . "
2 The best documented examples come from Brazil , where the patriarchal family appeared after the Portuguese colonisation with the agrarian families .
3 Of all the commercial cities of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries Genoa is the best documented , for its marvellous series of notarial registers give us almost a comprehensive view of the sophisticated world of contracts and partnerships , of commerce near and far , which made it the home of a commercial empire stretching from the western Mediterranean to the Middle East .
4 One of the best documented tales of the sighting of a sea monster occurred in 1852 , when a whaling vessel , the Monongahela , netted and took aboard a creature which was rather like a cross between a snake and a crocodile .
5 Again , Middleham is the best documented of the three lordships , with lists of fees extant for both Neville earls as well as Gloucester himself .
6 Media is one of the best documented jobs around , but as well as being able to assimilate all these facts and figures , media people need to be good mixers , good talkers and skilled negotiators .
7 Among city-states Athens was not the only democracy in the ancient Greek world but it was the most stable and long-lived , and the best documented , if only because it was politically the most important and culturally the most brilliant and creative of all the city-states .
8 One of the best documented cases concerns the so-called ‘ wolf-children of Midnapore ’ .
9 The best documented measure of severity was a simple classification based on each patient 's initial state of distress on presentation .
10 The 790s are one of the best documented decades in Anglo-Saxon history and this enables the years of crisis which followed the establishment of Offa 's dominant position to be comprehended in some detail .
11 The flashcard is a simple example of one of the best documented principles of memory ; things that are stored together tend to be recovered together .
12 Certainly at about the beginning of late Cretaceous times we have one of the best documented transgressions of all time .
13 Again , Middleham is the best documented of the three lordships , with lists of fees extant for both Neville earls as well as Gloucester himself .
14 Taken together these points have been thought to indicate a steady take-over of secular functions by the Merovingian episcopate , and thus to presage the emergence of a group of effectively independent episcopal states by the early eighth century , of which that of Savaric of Auxerre is the best documented .
15 It is gratifying to the region that tribute is paid to Sunderland Museum and Art Gallery : ‘ The output of the Sunderland potteries as a whole is without doubt the best documented — one must be grateful to the Sunderland Museum for the research done — and for summarising it so admirably in the publication Sunderland Pottery .
16 When the Minister had ended the meeting with the words , ‘ Now , Mr Sanders , what can we do to persuade you to put more investment in Ireland ? ’ the Englishman had replied , ‘ The best advocate you could have , Minister , to influence more investment in your country , is a local plant manager who consistently turns in good results , year after year .
17 In the early 1970s when the idea of JET was first conceived , the best recorded value fell short by a factor of 25 000 ; by 1990 JET was within a factor Of 20 .
18 In theory this should sort out the wheat from the chaff but the definition of wheat in the intelligence world is so wide that even with the best filter the net volume of material is of such staggering proportions that it is beyond any useful human assessment .
19 The best characterised is epithelial cadherin , E-cadherin or uvomorulin .
20 The cAMP-response-element-binding-protein ( CREB ) is the best characterised mediator of cAMP-inducible transcription in mammalian cells ( 1 , 2 , 3 ) .
21 Best of the Best followed and he was back in business .
22 Cod to 9 lb with the best catches from Baggy Point along the coast to Ilfracombe and on to Coombe Martin .
23 I believe that the maintained grammar school offers the best hope at present of making accessible to a larger population than ever before the best of the qualities and habits of which it somewhat accidentally finds itself the custodian : respect for learning , the encouragement of deep and strenuous thought , a regard for style , and the tacit assumption of contracts of mutual responsibility between individuals and between an individual and his society .
24 The best hope that Kampuchea can be spared more agony is the gathering weight of diplomatic contact .
25 Charles Hardin cited British experience in contending that " party government — if it can be attained — provides the best hope that our government will be able to meet its problems . "
26 That course may offer the best hope that the entire document will be given the desirable objective overview : in house productions tend to have a disjointed appearance born of their production by committee which often leads to inconsistency and difficulty of construction .
27 And was n't it just the best meatloaf you had ever tasted ? ’
28 Matthew J Moulton , one of the best liked and most experienced hill trampers in Scotland , has been killed in a fall when descending from Stob Dubh on Buachaille Etive Baeg , between Glen Coe and Glen Etive .
29 One of the pioneers of the four-wheel-drive family saloon market , the Sierra 4x4 , is now one of the best bargains around , offering strong performance and secure handling at a fair price .
30 One of the best bargains around .
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