Example sentences of "[is] [art] [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this is the best they can do when you are doing your best for your country , it stinks . |
| 2 | Richard Price says he wishes he knows what the secret of the dove family is … they 're just good horses and Flakey Dove is the best they 've had … she 's going to Cheltenham to see how good she really is … |
| 3 | We are saying it is the best we can do and we must judge how it is operating . ’ |
| 4 | A ‘ working ’ agreement is the best we can hope for , though probably sufficient none the less . |
| 5 | PLAYER : It is the best we 've got . |
| 6 | The ‘ metaphor ’ of mental illness is the best we can manage . |
| 7 | I wish we had someone better than Aschmann , but if that is the best we can do , then we shall have to manage . |
| 8 | I think Wilko is the best we could have possibly gotten in a manager and people ( including me unto recently when I was put right ) are ready to forget what he 's done for the club . |
| 9 | He added : ‘ Short term relief or a good night 's sleep to help you recover is the best you can expect . ’ |
| 10 | Indeed , I am not absolutely sure that it has not been proved that in terms of pure cost-effectiveness a space such as a 4 cm double is the best you can buy — the only trouble is that you need an awful lot of them . |
| 11 | 4 Now practise your reading until you are satisfied that it is the best you can do . |
| 12 | I ca n't tell you that this keyboard is the best you 'll ever buy , because its feel may not suit you at all , but if you take that and the monitor aside , and specify totally different units that do suit you , then the system box wo n't let you down . |
| 13 | I realise that a parking space next to an overflowing litter bin , in between a lorry full of cattle carcasses and a carload of adolescents playing heavy metal with their windows open on a sound system loud enough for Wembley Stadium , is not exactly the quintessential southern English landscape that would inspire a Constable painting , a Betjeman poem or an Elgar concerto — but it is the best you are going to get . ’ |
| 14 | Much pre-war inner city housing has little in the way of space and more often than not a backyard is the best you can hope for . |
| 15 | ‘ This is the best I have played so close to Wimbledon , ’ confirmed Edberg , and no one was disputing the fact . |
| 16 | My owners really wanted a Deerhound — this is the best I can do S J Hale , Cheshunt , Herts |
| 17 | For instance , the tuner is the best I 've used on any processor — it 's accurate and very easy to use — and the facility to externally channel-switch your amp is a sensible bonus . |
| 18 | Francis was not totally disconsolate and added : ‘ The way our fans came behind us is the best I 've ever heard it here , and I hope it continues . |
| 19 | This is the best I can manage . " |
| 20 | I 've fiddled around with CONFIG.SYS , but the copy attached ( the QRAM modified version ) is the best I 've found . |
| 21 | I do n't claim any great originality or depth , but it is the best I can do at the moment . |
| 22 | We 'll see , ’ is the best I 'll give her . |
| 23 | This is the best I 've seen them play for a long time Leicester |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm afraid a very weathered cotton sundress is the best I can muster — ’ |
| 25 | The track is the best I 've ever seen . |
| 26 | Hardenberger also recalls that the BBC PO 's York performance of Endless Parade — a work so difficult in its string scoring that two or three other orchestras have actually refused to play it with him — is the best he has taken part in so far . |
| 27 | You can be certain that Tilda is the purest you can buy . |
| 28 | But then neither is the 2:12:20 he produced in 1990 . |
| 29 | It is a world of twilight and in it something grows … that creature which is the inner you … |
| 30 | Conflict is a dynamic process ; and its destructive and long-term effects depend upon a number of factors , not least of which is the inner you , the real person beneath the surface . |