Example sentences of "be [num] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From nifty riveter to smart water-pipe detector … here are 10 of the best diy gifts selected by JACK SMITH |
| 2 | Yeah but if you 're one of the innocent ones . |
| 3 | They 're one of the largest producers in Europe , and with Christmas a coming , it 's harvest time . |
| 4 | And even if the weather is passable , low level walks will take you to places you 'd perhaps never have tried if you 're one of the many walkers whose sights are normally set pretty firmly on the heights . |
| 5 | But , without trying to flatter you , you 're one of the ablest accountants in the City . |
| 6 | Right you 've done the answers to question one Dominic , excellent , well done , you 're one of the best students in the class . |
| 7 | ‘ Naylor tells me you 're one of the best executives in your particular line , ’ Cicely Hepwood , a neat and gentle woman , remarked at one point during the meal . |
| 8 | You 're one of the stupidest people I know . ’ |
| 9 | You can get help with the cost of travel to and from hospital for NHS treatment if you 're one of the two groups of people shown below . |
| 10 | Miss Taylor , I think everybody is talking about your appearance but I think you 're one of the greatest actresses in the world and I 've enjoyed a lot of your films . |
| 11 | She said I just went in there and she said I could n't stand any more , she said do you know Joy she said you 're one of the nicest people I know , she said I tell you what I 've never heard in my life two people stab somebody like you 're being stabbed , she says I could n't sit there any more |
| 12 | If , after inspecting your shoes and feet , you find no noticeable problems , then you 're one of the lucky ones . |
| 13 | Or there could be , if you 're one of the lucky winners in our Bully 's Sporting Darts comp ! |
| 14 | We , we 're one of the main centres in the country for that , and some of these erm big apparatuses go to erm well below one milli-kelvin . |
| 15 | P.S. If you 're one of the big Money Prize Winners , you will be invited to receive your Cheque at an expenses-paid Prize Winners Champagne Reception ! |
| 16 | Make sure you 're one of the satisfied customers by following this advice from the KSA : |
| 17 | They 're one of the fine universities of Virginia . |
| 18 | Yet they 're one of the few products not advertised on TV , probably because their appearance is far from viewer-friendly . |
| 19 | Apparently we 're one of the few beer hostelries , so to speak , like pubs and clubs and things like that , that make their profit purely |
| 20 | You know very well that we 're two of the same kind , Nenna . |
| 21 | If the ability to ask , to trust another to respond and to feel gratitude are three of the main derivatives of an early partnership and the basis of love , envy is one of the strongest antidotes to loving . |
| 22 | Hotels and catering , clothing , retail , are three of the main Wages Council 's industries , of which we have a large membership . |
| 23 | ‘ There are three on the first floor . |
| 24 | With × 7 , there are three in the same field : M36 , 37 and 38 . |
| 25 | From the year 2000 onwards it is estimated there will be 104000 from the Indian subcontinent ( South Asia ) , 100000 Caribbean , 125000 from the Far East ( Chinese ) ( Norman , 1985 ) . |
| 26 | The nature of a painter 's technique is never scrutinised so closely as when a work has just been cleaned , and at the heart of the exhibition will be eight of the fourteen Titians in the Louvre 's own collection that have just been freed of their treacly , dark varnishes and retouchings . |
| 27 | Candidates who began under the traditional system will complete their course under that system and so it will be 1995 before the old system — and the examinations which were a part of it — finally disappear . |
| 28 | After all , having some fun , earning some money and getting better at what one does have got to be three of the key elements in business and , potentially , a career in executive search ( in the right environment ) offers all three . |
| 29 | He submitted that the multiplier should be seventeen for the whole life . |
| 30 | Now Wilkinson has turned the stale escargot into the galloping gourmet of the English game , a player who can be one of the shining lights of the new Premier League season . |