Example sentences of "be [art] [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This must be the oddest rags-to-riches tale I 'm ever going to hear . ’ |
| 2 | Holly-jack — because of her evergreen skin — seemed set to be the one who would persist in winter as the human 's friend ; she would be the oddest of primitive heroines . |
| 3 | But that 'd be the tidiest thing for you . |
| 4 | December I want to be the longest-serving manager under Peter Swales . |
| 5 | The senior partner , Mr Alan Vickers , has been with the firm for 40 years but still can not claim to be the longest-serving member of staff . |
| 6 | But so strung up , his trophies ; Anton 's underpants , that — and this a man to swoon at blood ? — it might be the merest scratch . |
| 7 | The authority 's sewage works vary in size from those producing many millions of gallons of treated effluent a day to those serving a few houses in a rural area where the discharge may be the merest trickle . |
| 8 | His British menu of Welsh Cheddar soufflé , English gammon platter , and baked fruit in puff pastry with caramel sauce was judged to be the best overall of the six menus prepared by finalists in London last month . |
| 9 | She looked , I do n't know , determined , that would probably be the best way of putting it . |
| 10 | Crab apples and wild cherry grow in company with blackthorn , hawthorn , elder , and wild rose along a verge near my own garden , forming what must be the best natural autumn bird larder for miles around . |
| 11 | In some circumstances it may be the best thing to do . |
| 12 | I feel sort of fixed that it would be the best thing … you know it would . ’ |
| 13 | The children were expected to do well , carefully encouraged , but never laid under strain to do or be the best . |
| 14 | You 'll be the best judge of that . |
| 15 | And it 's supposed to be the best in the World . |
| 16 | To be No. 1 you have to be the best ; fast pace on court , quick thinker , footwork spot on , lob the ball , serve well . |
| 17 | ‘ I want to be the best ’ she explains proudly , ‘ it does n't matter how long it takes . ’ |
| 18 | Following horses with a run under their belt may be the best advice for armchair punters retreating from an unprofitable Flat campaign . |
| 19 | The US Masters champion said : ‘ To be the best in the world you 've got to play around the world , but I do n't expect to see Americans playing over here . |
| 20 | DAVID FEHERTY played what he considered to be the best golf of his life in the BMW tournament in Munich yesterday , thanks largely to a tip from a friend . |
| 21 | A draw would probably be the best result . |
| 22 | Clearly the RAF would be happy to show me their trophy-winners — while my cunning instincts told me that this would be the best place to do food-tasting ! |
| 23 | For an unintelligible speaker to learn to speak intelligibly , it may not be the best training , and certainly it is not the only training , to send him to the pulpit of Boston parish church . |
| 24 | This is the Japanese giant 's exhaustively researched and meticulously executed ‘ best shot ’ at luxury saloon design — a car which seeks to be the best , and very nearly succeeds . |
| 25 | It was not enough to be the best in the world at your chosen sport , as Joe Davis found to his cost . |
| 26 | In 1980 , the owner approached a local architect , John Wharton , to provide him with a design that could be easily executed by direct labour and it was immediately apparent that exploitation of the high volume of the main east-west wing of the building would be the best way of obtaining the maximum accommodation . |
| 27 | A parcel from London recently landed on my desk with what turns out to be the best analysis of it , Soviet History in the Gorbachev Revolution by Professor R W Davies of Birmingham University 's Centre for Russian and East European Studies ( Macmillan , hardback £29.50 , paperback £7.99 ) . |
| 28 | The old fogies tend to be the best . |
| 29 | It was a wonderful show , ‘ Diamond Dogs ’ , but it was n't practical for a tour so we all thought that if we got the Broadway experts to put it together , it would be the best thing possible — but it was n't . |
| 30 | Ayatollah Taqi al-Mudarrisi , spiritual leader of the radical Islamic Works Movement which claims to have organised three assassination attempts on the Iraqi president , says internal change in Iraq , without war , would be the best outcome for the whole region . |