Example sentences of "he be [adv] the [adj -est] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Although he is not the best of our cooks , ma'am . |
| 2 | Rangers have a top performer in Richard Gough , though he is n't the biggest of central defenders . |
| 3 | And he 's not the best of chums with the Yorkshire Dales National Park , who he criticises for favouring the car driving tourist over the locals with the absurd blocking of planning permission for goal posts on Dent 's football pitch . |
| 4 | ‘ But he 's not the greatest of conductors , is he ? ’ , |
| 5 | ‘ He 's easily the best of us , technically , ’ Alison went on . |
| 6 | He is the first to admit that he was not the best of patients . |
| 7 | Occasionally he was referred to by those who saw him at services as ‘ the old canon ’ though he was much the youngest of the canons . |