Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [be] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The women 's game is much more open today and Gabriela Sabatini has been the best player on the women 's tour this year . |
| 2 | For several years Spain has been the biggest source of sales for the majority of ELT publishers ; indeed , it is reported that for one of the smaller players it represents a dangerous 50% of turnover . |
| 3 | Laporte 's trumping of Wassall on 8 January with a £135m bid for glue maker Evode has been the nearest thing to a typical bid salvo , although there have been some minnow-sized transactions . |
| 4 | China had been the largest single purchaser of US wheat for several years , buying up to 10 per cent of total US wheat production in some years . |
| 5 | ‘ Garren Of New York and Trevor Sorbie have been the biggest influences on me ’ . |
| 6 | Meeting Arnold Palmer has been the greatest thing that has happened to me . |
| 7 | The Flowers , alongside The Waterboys now adopted Irish citizens , decamped in the County Galway fishing village of Spiddal have been the biggest visible influence on a generation of urban folk dreamers . |
| 8 | Since 1950 America and Britain have been the slowest . |
| 9 | ‘ I think Neville Southall has been the best goalkeeper in England for a long time , but now he has been joined by others like David Seaman , Tony Coton and Chris Woods . |
| 10 | Polyurethanes has been the strongest business within the group and has shown continuing profits in spite of the downturn . |
| 11 | Only a month before Mikael had been the proudest chief in Abyssinia and it must have been a bitter moment for him to be led in triumph before the hated Shoans . |
| 12 | Churchill had been the latest bone of contention , as he had begun to make public speeches which Chamberlain clearly found embarrassing . |
| 13 | It 's been certainly true er , Chair , that America has been the largest source of inward investment in this country consistently . |
| 14 | Kavos has been the fastest developing resort in Corfu over the past two years and now has more bars , tavernas and discos than just about anywhere else on the island . |
| 15 | Four bids had been received , of which that from DCS of Edinburgh had been the lowest , at just under £3,000 . |