Example sentences of "[vb base] [conj] [pron] [be] the [adj -est] " in BNC.

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1 well , when I say that it 's the best opportunity for peace I 've seen in twenty years .
2 The winter of nineteen forty was extremely bad , in fact most people say that it was the worst winter of the war .
3 To strengthen your hair prior to a perm and ensure that it is the best possible condition , apply a combination of protein and moisturising treatments .
4 I 've persuaded the people who matter that I 'm the best man to work with you to help us clear this up , but I 'm like a football manager , Cameron ; I can be replaced at a moment 's notice and I 'm only as good as the results I get .
5 ‘ Durham County Council and Labour know that it is the best way for children to start their educational life . ’
6 ‘ Durham County Council and Labour know that it is the best way for children to start their educational life , ’ he said .
7 It is difficult to deal sensibly with the craze unless we remember that it is the latest in a series of recognisably similar phenomena , which the law has had difficulty in regulating : the early ‘ happenings ’ , influenced by LSD ; the ‘ blues parties ’ , which were the last to hit the headlines ; the continuing ‘ northern soul ’ craze , and no doubt others which even the participants have long since forgotten .
8 I have the feeling , too , that the great object of the recording engineers here has been to present the full sound-range from the faintest pianissimo to the most thunderous triple- forte , and to ensure also that we hear as it were the furthest tip of the singers ' sibilants and the deepest reverberation of the bass drum .
9 Hendry , who has now earned over £200,000 during the 1992-93 season despite his relatively poor run of results , added : ‘ When you believe that you 're the best player in the world it 's very depressing when you keep on playing like an idiot . ’
10 I use Amway cleaning , laundry , personal care , etc. products myself because I feel that they are the BEST environmentally — friendly , cruelty-free products available .
11 Darling darling , I feel that I am the luckiest man on earth and I want you to know that I know I am .
12 There 's no other one like it in flying condition and I feel that it is the finest P-40 in the world today . ’
13 I love Moscow , and I think its beauties are many , but I think also that only the Van Cliburn coalition , casting its own magic so thick around itself that all the world becomes a glittering study in delight , could make one feel that it is the happiest and nicest and most cosy-comfortable spot on earth .
14 Yd of all of them I think that he is the nearest to possessing genius .
15 We agree that it is the best way to help those countries to establish sound democracies and a sound economy .
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