Example sentences of "be the greatest " in BNC.

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1 It wo n't be the greatest place you 've ever lived , I know , but at least it 's going to be dry and … ’
2 If so , it would only have increased his feeling of vulnerability and awkwardness for , until he had come to recognize that he was not going to be the greatest poet of the age after Yeats , Lewis was always hostile to poets .
3 ‘ Adrien de Vries is now considered to be the greatest sculptor of his time and his work has a timeless quality . ’
4 Hughes ' cityscape is as exciting for the children in her books as the bluebell woods and dingle dells of 50 years ago , and this optimism may be the greatest gift a modern writer can give young readers .
5 ‘ Well , yeah , but they do n't exactly consider you to be the greatest thing since sliced bread , now do they ? ’ she opined .
6 While this news will delight everyone who loves these colourful insects , gardeners will be less happy to hear that the cabbage white is likely to be the greatest beneficiary .
7 Richard Feynman , said to be the greatest theoretical physicist of modern times , stated that no-one understands quantum mechanics .
8 it considers such an education to be the greatest safeguard against the dangerous growth of State power , to be indispensable for the preservation of an effective democracy and to be the one , moreover , which can only be the province of a voluntary independent movement ;
9 His Call to the Unconverted is considered by many to be the greatest work on conversion ever written .
10 Recent announcements have warned that the mean increase in global temperature in the first half of the next century could be the greatest ever experienced in human history .
11 And this may be the greatest threat to our reserves of groundwater .
12 This is going to be the greatest film ever made in America . ’
13 Might not that be the greatest thing ?
14 If the Radnor Walk horror becomes public it would be the greatest scandal in the history of the Service .
15 Oh how we laughed at Nick Kent , who may well be the greatest rock journalist who ever lived , but he epitomised every cliché in the ‘ Oh yeah man , we was stoned ’ book .
16 The steel industry will remain the major coal consumer but growth will be the greatest in thermal coal for electricity generation , with coal meeting about a quarter of requirements by the year 2000 .
17 Unless we educated our democracy there would be the greatest social and political trouble as the outcome of the war ’ .
18 Still , if you are going to admit the influence of another composer , it might as well be the greatest one of your day .
19 ‘ How can he be the greatest , ’ I asked , ‘ when he has n't met me ?
20 Phylloxera is generally considered to be the greatest disaster in French viticultural history , but in some respects it has also been a blessing .
21 It 's very exciting sitting around with Paul , because he must be the greatest player on the pedal steel guitar there is .
22 There seems no likelihood of a settlement without the full apology Branson has always demanded and on January 11 he will be in court to savour what he expects to be the greatest victory against his rival .
23 Touch-of-a-button access to all the required information would be the greatest boost to efficiency since computers were invented .
24 Of the more than fifty books to come from the press , there is no doubt that the finest was his Chaucer of 1896 , reckoned by many to be the greatest book printed in England since Caxton , of which he printed 425 copies with an additional thirteen on vellum .
25 ‘ I 'm sure she 'll be the greatest help . ’
26 The same survey showed that the majority of meetings would fall into the 100–280 delegate bracket , and that provincial hotels would be the greatest beneficiaries .
27 Which commandment did he consider to be the greatest ?
28 ‘ This is going to be the greatest team ever seen in the White House , ’ she predicts .
29 And it would n't be the greatest shock if Bowe proved me wrong by recording a knockout as fast as Lewis 's at Earl 's Court .
30 I venture to add that this must be the greatest labour of love that anyone can render to a friend .
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