Example sentences of "be the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A HOUSE , whose ‘ I Am The Greatest ’ LP has just been reissued on EMI , precede the September release of a limited edition mail order single with dates at Liverpool Krazy House |
| 2 | In Italy , I am the greatest . |
| 3 | A HOUSE : ‘ I Am The Greatest ’ ( Setanta ) |
| 4 | ‘ I Am The Greatest ’ contains 16 songs of cynicism and desperate hope , from the almost venomous diatribe of ‘ I Do n't Care ’ to the gorgeous child-like pleading of ‘ Take It Easy On Me ’ . |
| 5 | The likes of ‘ Live Life Death Die ’ and ‘ Creatures Of Craze ’ do n't need standard lyrical formats — streams of juxtaposed words more than suffice , and the final title track is a knife-twisting attack that hits the music industry where it hurts , climaxing with an anguished ‘ I Am The Greatest ’ repeated over and over like some unrelenting battle cry . |
| 6 | Until then , make room in your record collection for ‘ I Am The Greatest ’ , one of the most cherishable pieces of black vinyl you could ever hope to own . |
| 7 | From Adam until now I am the greatest in the recorded history of mankind , ’ he says to the camera , and to the world . |
| 8 | I am the lightest one , you 're the heaviest |
| 9 | ‘ I am standing to win because I believe I am the best candidate to lead the Labour Party to victory next time but also because it is imperative that we have a contest in which a proper debate can take place , ’ he added . |
| 10 | I , La Carlotta , I am the best opera singer in Paris . |
| 11 | She heard them clinking , and she thought : ‘ I 'm here in these lovely gardens because I am the Best Child in the World . ’ |
| 12 | Campos , who last year won the Three-Quarter Ton Cup in the Farr-designed Lone , would like to be skipper , but is realistic : ‘ I will be the skipper if I feel I am the best . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ But the King says I am the best horseman in his army . |
| 14 | Despite his misfortunes Maskell once reflected : ‘ I am the luckiest chap in the world . |
| 15 | Darling darling , I feel that I am the luckiest man on earth and I want you to know that I know I am . |
| 16 | Certainly if I had been doing all the restoration work myself it would n't have cost me so much because I am the cheapest worker in this outfit . |
| 17 | PAMELA : Surely I am the wickedest creature that ever breathed . |
| 18 | And at the same time there came before him Ximena Gomez , the daughter of the Count , who fell on her knees before him and said , Sir , I am the daughter of Count Don Gomez of Gormaz , and Rodrigo of Bivar has slain the Count my father , and of three daughters whom he has left I am the youngest . |
| 19 | I am the youngest member of the new youth team at Dehon House . |
| 20 | It was a fight but now that I am at college you can believe I am the happiest girl around here . |
| 21 | ‘ I am the unhappiest creature in the world , but I shall fight for my life , ’ he said . |
| 22 | ‘ I am the unhappiest creature in the world , ’ the monster said . |
| 23 | I 'm really worried , concerned about the integrity of what has been the finest service in the world . ’ |
| 24 | He could have been the finest brain surgeon England has ever seen … even blind he is a superb concert pianist … |
| 25 | The woman had also been the nearest she could get to contrite about what had happened in her apartment . |
| 26 | Laporte 's trumping of Wassall on 8 January with a £135m bid for glue maker Evode has been the nearest thing to a typical bid salvo , although there have been some minnow-sized transactions . |
| 27 | Four bids had been received , of which that from DCS of Edinburgh had been the lowest , at just under £3,000 . |
| 28 | The Oriskany has been the commonest producing formation , and few wells have tested the Cambrian and Ordovician section where porosity associated with unconformities may be significant . |
| 29 | In only 5 of 11 years has P. albimonus been the commonest species , four others having occupied that position ; in 1977 Episyrphus balteatus formed nearly half the total catch ; in 1976 , a third of the species caught were represented by one individual ; and the number of individuals per species has varied from 20 in 1981 to over 120 in 1978 . |
| 30 | He does n't actually use the words but his philosophy is clearly that the New Zealand sojourn may have been the darkest hour but that the darkest hours comes before the dawning of a new day . |