Example sentences of "[am/are] best [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I am wearing a pure white carnation I am best avoided on that day because it means I am in a bad mood , ’ he said , adding that he always warns new acquaintances of this fact but has as yet not lived up to the threat . |
| 2 | ‘ Except the fictitious character by which I am best known ! ’ |
| 3 | Except for the strongest constitutions , coastal walking , bird watching and easel painting are best reserved for milder seasons . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | There are two ancient mild steel peg belays here , but they are best ignored in favour of something a touch more modern . |
| 6 | There appear to be mountings for the transformer but once again I suspect that these are best ignored for safety reasons . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Services are best organized along multi-agency lines , with a range of detoxification facilities , drop-in clinics and day care and residential units . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But they are best followed up later ( when the heat is off ) with some discussion of what took place . |
| 11 | If you collect plates or similar items , which are best displayed vertically , a grooved shelf installed at about picture rail height provides an answer . |
| 12 | Such structures are best displayed graphically ( even parliamentary draughtsmen have resorted to flowcharts for the definition of some more complex legislation ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Water conditions are best assessed at Carrbridge . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Using this method of breeding Killifish , the eggs are best collected by hand and hatched in small dishes or tubs . |
| 19 | 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 ) : |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Initial requirements , specifications and user-system interfaces are best composed in terms of English-like languages . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Salami are best served as an antipasto , in sandwiches , with salads or eaten with a little cheese and fresh crusty bread . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |