Example sentences of "be [adv] [art] [adj -est] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Laws are perhaps the best example of written , formal rules . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Graphic novels are perhaps the latest form of comic , an attempt to make it part of literature . |
| 5 | It is well known in the EFTA countries and in those of central Europe that Britain has been perhaps the strongest advocate of enlargement . |
| 6 | Walls are generally the greatest source of heat loss and correspondingly expensive to tackle . |
| 7 | In the absence of a full contract of employment , these so-called ‘ written particulars ’ are usually the best evidence of the terms agreed between employer and employee . |
| 8 | On the vertical axis is plotted the recorded rate of increase of money wage rates , and it may be assumed that the rate of inflation can be closely associated with these rates of wage change because wages are usually the largest component of costs . |
| 9 | ‘ The Smiths are probably the oddest expression of the working class rage … |
| 10 | These , for me , are often the best bit of the conference . |
| 11 | ‘ People carrying out the work are often the best judge of where environmental improvements can be made . |
| 12 | A simple zone covering a city centre only would be far too small to achieve the objective of lowering congestion in the whole city : indeed at morning peak ( before 9 a.m. ) city centres , including Cambridge , are often the quietest part of a city . |
| 13 | However , others find that coffee aggravates their Cystitis , so you are really the best judge of whether to use this measure or not . |
| 14 | These people , our ultimate users , are surely the best judge of our progress in this field of engineering . |
| 15 | Eventually the elimination of exchange rate margins , with the establishment of a common currency recognized as being perhaps the best way of embodying this . |
| 16 | These are the grounds of the seventeenth-century Earl 's Palace , described as being possibly the finest example of French Renaissance architecture in Scotland . |
| 17 | Visitors were probably the biggest problem of all , for people calling round did n't expect to find a barn owl sitting in the living room . |
| 18 | Maybe our own series , but forgetting all that there is one inescapable fact , we were certainly the bonniest team of the tournament ! |
| 19 | GRAMM-Rudman-Hollings , the US deficit reduction law , is arguably the worst piece of legislation passed by Congress in the past decade . |
| 20 | ‘ There 's only the slightest malfunction of the foot muscles , ’ he agreed . |
| 21 | Unarmed combat is basically the quickest way of attacking somebody and grinding them into little pieces before moving on to your next victim . ) |
| 22 | This is merely the latest example of the home office overturning policies earlier pursued with such vigour . |
| 23 | Miller has always been expert at bringing out the best in players — he turned Frank McAvennie from a midfield player into a striker in his St Mirren days — and the evolution of Pat McGinlay as a goalscoring midfield player is merely the latest example of his handiwork . |
| 24 | That the monument is only the latest manifestation of a long and miserable tradition of big lies and big art should come as no surprise to readers of ‘ Republic of Fear ’ , Mr Khalil 's previous study of contemporary Iraqi politics . |
| 25 | In fact M42 is only the brightest part of a vast nebular cloud which covers most of Orion , but I have never been able to see the rest of it with binoculars . |
| 26 | LTS claim that Barama is " genuinely setting out to achieve management of the forest on a sustainable yield basis " , but Francis Sullivan of WWF points out that " sustainable yield is only the tiniest aspect of true sustainable forest management " and that the proposal makes no provision for the preservation of biodiversity . |
| 27 | All these things are related to the Izzat of the girl — saving her Izzat ( and through that their own Izzat ) is perhaps the greatest responsibility of her parents or guardian . |
| 28 | Pessimism about the nature of old age is perhaps the greatest enemy of a happy and fulfilled old age . |
| 29 | While I will put on Les Troyens , which is perhaps the greatest piece of audacity in the history of opera . |
| 30 | But the loss or gradual erosion of ties of affection is nevertheless a liberator of our criminality ; never to have experienced them is perhaps the greatest liberator of all . |