Example sentences of "be [art] [adj] and [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sparrow-sized buntings and redpolls , weighing 30–35 g , are the smallest and perhaps the hardiest of polar birds . |
| 2 | The fourth side of the pond proved to be the busiest and also the best in terms of good finds . |
| 3 | This is the first and perhaps the last time that I shall desire it . |
| 4 | It is the third and possibly the second group to which ‘ new subcultural theory ’ applies . |
| 5 | and of course , as I say , being at Cambridge there was a little theatre there and er we used to see so many of the actors and actresses that used to come into our lives you see because there were five places on the station , for instance , there was the tea room adjoining the , there was a large kiosk , large kiosk one girl in there , you see , and er there was , then there was this large which is the biggest and then the dining room that , you see and er so and , and one year I , I wrote it down but erm , one year I remember we took forty four thousand pounds which was a lot of money and er , you see , well er I got on very well with the girls |
| 6 | He therefore considered them of a tradition quite different from that form of conservatism — so admirably defined by Russell Kirk in his study Eliot and his Age ( 1971 , 1984 ) — which , as Eliot said to me more than once , was the best and perhaps the only defence against the extremes of Communism and Fascism . |
| 7 | It was more than the feudal relationship between king and king-duke , it was the overlapping and ultimately the conflict of two growing structures of government . ’ |
| 8 | In this analysis er , if you set aside the effect of our sale of Elsivir er , the variance was forty nine million seventy percent of which relates to the U K. The drop in profits from our newspapers was the biggest and probably the most widely expected a substantial proportion of their costs are fixed and , er , they therefore are particularly sensitive to , er changes in volume . |
| 9 | ‘ It was a left and then the right cut in so I had to straighten out . |