Example sentences of "[be] the [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In terms of fun and enjoyment it 's been the best move I 've made . |
| 2 | The familiar scheme numbers for food preparation and food service — originally City and Guilds 147 , 151 and 152 in cookery and now City and Guilds 706 and 707 part 1 and 2 — have been the easily understood shorthand for hotel and catering qualifications acquired by a combination of on the job training and college tuition . |
| 3 | He had been the newly appointed Head of the Fiana , eighteen years old , heady with the power of it . |
| 4 | So it comes as no surprise to learn that the new film by veteran director Robert Altman — The Player — has been the most talked about movie in studio parking lots and Beverly Hills brasseries this year . |
| 5 | 's major customers have always been the well known supermarket chains , but we are now also selling to regional supermarkets under 's generic brands and to cash and carry 's . |
| 6 | Certainly , it is unlikely to have been the only figured panel in the mosaic . |
| 7 | Kenya has been the least affected , because it had never occupied a strategically important corner of a continent that had largely been ignored in the bipolar world of the superpowers . |
| 8 | In the Commons , Sir Thomas Clarges moved that " a standing Army is destructive to the Country " , whilst his fellow Tory , Edward Seymour , declared that " the safety of the Kingdom doth not consist with a standing force " , adding ( in a way which anticipated Tory arguments used after 1689 ) that " all the profit and security of this Nation is in our Ships , and had there been the least ship in the Channel " , Monmouth could never have landed . |
| 9 | There are the carefully packaged documents prepared by marketing , PR and advertising companies on behalf of their clients . |
| 10 | More worrying are the longer lasting psychological effects , usually associated with acid , that can be wrought by any hallucinogenic drug . |
| 11 | In this chapter , we consider the incidence of falling employment in all sectors , but manufacturing and mining are the worst affected . |
| 12 | Personnel people are the worst afflicted with the ailment . |
| 13 | Trifling though they may appear , these are the conventionally cited points of contention between the Celtic and Roman churches . |
| 14 | The oldest fossil fish , which are the earliest known vertebrates , lack jaws — the mouth is a simple opening — and are covered on the outside with bony skeleton . |
| 15 | On Kenya 's border with Tanzania are the internationally known Serengeti and Maasai Mara reserves , where the annual migration of millions of wildebeeste and zebras to warmer northern parts forms a wondrous spectacle straight out of the pages of ‘ Out of Africa ’ . |
| 16 | The question now arises : just what are the consciously functioning parts of the world capitalist economy ? |
| 17 | Chartered secretaries are the professionally trained administrators and managers , who occupy a variety of senior organisational positions . |
| 18 | For a moment balanced against London 's distracting inanity are the equally distracting primitive rituals now seen as inane because sundered from the Word : |
| 19 | Of these three studies those of Richards and Cripps are the best devised to date . |
| 20 | The numbers that I have given publicly hitherto are the best estimate that the senior chief inspector and I can make — about 175 at the end of the transitional period . |
| 21 | These elite forces are the best equipped and trained and the most disciplined in a 150,000-strong army famous for its incompetence . |
| 22 | Of the soft Italian cheeses Bel Paese , Mozzarella and Tallegio are the best known , although they are very different in character . |
| 23 | Pecorino , Feta and Manchego are the best known of the remaining ewes ' milk cheeses . |
| 24 | The unlovely Fannie and her duopolistic cousin , the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation ( Freddie Mac ) , are the best known of that obscure underbelly of the American political system known as government-sponsored enterprises . |
| 25 | The Soil Association and the UK Register of Organic Food Standards ( UKROFS ) are the best known organisations covering organic produce int his country . |
| 26 | Heroin and cocaine These are the best known of the hard drugs . |
| 27 | This expression covers emotivism , of which C.L. Stevenson and A.J. Ayer are the best known exponents , and the prescriptivism of R.M. Hare . |
| 28 | Also it must he said that Jurassic zones , which are the best known , are now being recognised on something approaching a world-wide scale . |
| 29 | Extrinsic luminescence centres are the best known , and perhaps the easiest to detect by geochemical analysis , whereas the causes of intrinsic CL require detailed crystallographic and solid state physical investigation . |
| 30 | Bishop Auckland are the best known team of all , of course , but they 're now in Another League and doing badly . |