Example sentences of "be [adv] the [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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1 | Out-migrants from rural areas are predominantly the younger members of the adult population . |
2 | They are numerically the largest group of people at risk , they present the most complex problems and their needs have the most impact on families and communities . |
3 | But the extended sets of variations usually on popular songs , but sometimes on dance-tunes or the notes of the hexachord , generally increasing in complication and technical difficulty toward the end , which are arguably the chief glory of virginal music , have been plausibly derived from the diferencias of Cabezon ( see pp. 236–7 ) . |
4 | These commodities are arguably the primitive valuables of early Anglo-Saxon society , used to oil the wheels of social and political activities ( Huggett 1982 and forthcoming ) . |
5 | Socially , though , he and Karen , who taught part-time at a girls ' school in Headington , were both from a lower-middle-class , comp/tech background , and it may not have been only the fearsome price of property in the North Oxford heartlands which had put them off moving there . |
6 | ‘ The conduct of the workers is deplorable , ’ wrote a French mining manager in 1869 , in the process of ferociously repressing the sort of strike of which Zola 's Germinal has given us a vivid picture , ‘ but one must recognise that they have been merely the savage instruments of agitators ’ . |
7 | If one excludes cooking utensils , rugs are perhaps the only form of furnishing conducive to this nomadic way of life , because , when spread on the floor , they provide both a comfortable place to sit and a sanitary surface from which to eat food . |
8 | Laws are perhaps the best example of written , formal rules . |
9 | Butthole Surfers are perhaps the ultimate expression of hardcore 's predilections . |
10 | Most people find it easy to drink large quantities of calorific drinks , sweet or alcoholic , without in any way lessening or delaying their appetite for the next meal — and these drinks , and sugar itself , are perhaps the ultimate example of fibre-free calories . |
11 | There is even an enterprising individual who has put ads on cows grazing beside the London to Brighton railway line , while sandwich-boards and street criers are perhaps the oldest media of all . |
12 | The financial markets are perhaps the biggest gamble of all and the dividing line between " normal " risk-taking and compulsive gambling , sharp practice and even criminality can become exceedingly thin . |
13 | Graphic novels are perhaps the latest form of comic , an attempt to make it part of literature . |
14 | This is a sinister view of the world of simulacra and simulation described by Jean Baudrillard , the world in which people have the illusion of being actively hooked into vast information networks , whereas in fact they are only the passive recipients of processed data , more and more isolated in front of their televisions and their computer screens ( 1970:186–91 , 1981:121–31 ) . |
15 | Before considering the automatic directions , it is as well to remember that ( although they will be sufficient in most instances ) they are only the bare bones of the directions the parties may need in a personal injury case , and do not prevent the parties seeking any further directions they may need under Ord 25 whether set out in PF51 or not . |
16 | However , as was pointed out there , the waves predicted by such theory are only the first stage of the evolution towards turbulent motion . |
17 | Many of the sounds we hear emanating from insects , for example , are only the bottom end of a spectrum of sound signals much of which lie above the auditory frequencies to which our ears are attuned . |
18 | It is well known in the EFTA countries and in those of central Europe that Britain has been perhaps the strongest advocate of enlargement . |
19 | Healings , exorcisms , tongues , prophecy are merely the spectacular tip of the iceberg , the heart of which is a living , loving , believing Christian fellowship . |
20 | And it is the same attitude of world-weariness and sophistication that socializes each generation of students and new teachers into believing that their own blends of ill-formed idealism , intermittent enthusiasm and nagging doubt about the true value of what they are doing are merely the embarrassing stigmata of the beginner , to be covered up as much as possible , and grown out of as soon as possible . |
21 | Some essential and irreplaceable tissues , like the brain , kidney tubules , intestinal mucosa and red blood corpuscles , can take up glucose in the absence of insulin , which other tissues , notably muscles which are normally the largest consumers of glucose , need its presence . |
22 | The family member also progressively adapts so that the effects of the disease are largely the progressive effects of that adaptation — The disease always gets worse if it is not treated but nonetheless the family member develops ways in which he or she can somehow live with the disease . |
23 | Walls are generally the greatest source of heat loss and correspondingly expensive to tackle . |
24 | River , meadow , and woodland may lead the spectator to predict ‘ Arcadia among fertility , loveliness , industry and wealth ’ , but the illusion can be sustained only by those who keep their distance , for such ‘ picturesque villages are generally the perennial hotbeds of fever and ague , of squalid penury , sottish profligacy , dull discontent too stale for words ’ . |
25 | Naturally , brothers are not the best judges of a sister 's sex-appeal . |
26 | ARM British and French congratulations to Mr Helmut Kohl for his allies ' victory in the East German election are not the best gauge of how the West German chancellor is viewed in London and Paris . |
27 | As we have seen , parents are not the best communicators of sex education . |
28 | Castigation and exhortation are not the best ways of doing that seeking . |
29 | When fear keeps them awake at night , parents would do well to remember that thousands of teenagers try things and then move on , that people of all ages make regular use of drugs as part of their happy , productive lives and , above all , that we are not the hapless victims of some depraved international conspiracy . |
30 | It can be a relief to discover that some of the worrying physical symptoms are not the first indications of some dreaded disease but are stress-related and represent perfectly normal ways of reacting to stress . |