Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] be the [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are claimed to be the first ever to enable system administrators to monitor and manage all their computing resources — computers , networks , and relational database applications — from one central management console . |
| 2 | The portrait of Andrew Jackson Ten Broeck , aged one year and six months and dated 1834 , is one of the great masterpieces of American Folk Art by Ammi Phillips , long considered to be the single most important naive painter of the nineteenth century . |
| 3 | The transfer of goodwill is generally considered to be the single most important factor ( see Luckey v Hockley [ 1966 ] 2 KIR 17 ; Douglas v Merchants Facilities ( Glasgow ) Ltd [ 1966 ] 1 ITR 374 ; Seymour v Barber and Heron [ 1970 ] 5 ITR 65 ; Bonser v Patara [ 1967 ] 2 ITR 76 ) , but not an overriding one , in support of the transfer as a going concern . |
| 4 | A transsexual is somebody who actually wants to be the other totally … . |
| 5 | The Games , already destined to be the largest ever , now have to find room for the extra 3,306 competitors and officials registered by the end of last month , bringing the total to 18,306 . |
| 6 | Cointreu is said to be the seventh most popular liqueur in the world . |
| 7 | Parker is said to be the self-confessed most Left wing man in Britain , an urban warrior with a mission . |
| 8 | By 1991 , the Levellers , then without a chart hit to their name , were said to be the fourth most bankable live band in the country . |
| 9 | On Monday , the Assembly Rooms will open its doors on arts exhibition which is said to be the biggest ever promoted locally . |
| 10 | Thus the hunt was on for heads of functions who could deliver results , and executive search was seen to be the only truly effective way to actually define and attract this key talent . |
| 11 | Blackburn now look to be the only only team capable of catching scum . |
| 12 | The list leaves out what many consider to be the single most important US import , namely oil . |
| 13 | A former Ministry of Defence worker , has been found guilty of accepting one and a half million pounds in backhanders from arms companies , in what 's thought to be the biggest ever corruption case . |
| 14 | But this is not just any conference : it 's apparently going to be the greatest ever gathering of world leaders in one place at one time . |
| 15 | And the others are going to be the same rather less . |
| 16 | ‘ Carol Barratt is going to be looked after for the rest of her life , and looked after well , whereas life for us is never going to be the same again . ’ |
| 17 | When I arrived back in Glasgow on 10 June I wondered if anything was going to be the same again . |
| 18 | I want to cry very much now because I think I 'm admitting to myself that , no matter what happens , lift is never going to be the same again . |
| 19 | ‘ But what was quickly very clear was that the oil scene was never going to be the same again . |
| 20 | You breed , willy-nilly , and lo and behold ! you find life is n't ever going to be the same again . |
| 21 | I had put Unidentified Flying Objects right back on the agenda where they belonged , and , from this day forth , the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist was never going to be the same again . |
| 22 | The new 0662 family is a line of 1.0Gb 1″ high , 3.5″ disk drives claimed to be the first anywhere to store 1Gb in a 1″ high unit using a second generation magneto-resistive head for areal density of 354M-bytes per square inch . |
| 23 | He adds : ‘ If you long for the day when Britain can claim to be the first mainly Afro-Asian part of Europe , vote Conservative or Europe . ’ |
| 24 | She 's a ‘ free spirit ’ and appears to be the second most dominant female in the group . |
| 25 | A black hole seems to be the only really natural explanation of the observations . |
| 26 | In the heart of the Friston forest , in a delightful hamlet , this fabulous building , dating back to 1280 , is reputed to be the oldest continually inhabited small medieval house in England . |
| 27 | New Hall dates back to the 12th century and is reputed to be the oldest fully moated manor house in England . |
| 28 | Those that were n't instantly flattened proved to be the first genuinely air-worthy chickens I had ever seen . |
| 29 | According to the report on the South West Edinburgh Plan the construction of houses at this location has proved to be the single most contentious issue . |
| 30 | The three-year NCP investigation is believed to be the biggest ever in this country into alleged industrial espionage . |