Example sentences of "be [art] [adj] and [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What had once been the greatest and most prosperous of Elf realms had effectively ceased to be . |
| 2 | These workers have traditionally been the toughest and most radical , and employers all over America are aware that if Pittston can break the ‘ mother union ’ , then the attempts to gain the ground lost in the Reagan years will be stillborn . |
| 3 | And yet Eliot had always been the subtler and more complicated man , shrewd enough to make his peace with an age to which he did not truly belong . |
| 4 | The civilization of China is among the oldest in the world , and China has throughout Japan 's history been the largest and most powerful of her Asian neighbours . |
| 5 | ‘ It has been the largest and longest sustained fall in unemployment in the history of this country . ’ |
| 6 | He must have been the best-known and most celebrated inhabitant of Baldersdale — excepting Hannah Hauxwell , of course — within living memory . |
| 7 | His has been the strongest and most resonant of the voices which have called for a change of priorities . |
| 8 | It may well be that the majority have been validated , but that those outstanding are the largest and most environmentally damaging . |
| 9 | In the widely read book Human Aggression , the psychoanalyst Anthony Storr draws our attention to the ‘ sombre fact that we are the cruellest and most ruthless species that has ever walked the earth ’ ( 1968 : i ) . |
| 10 | Touched by beneficial magics and feeding on the long grasses of the steppe , the steeds of Ellyrion are the swiftest and most noble of four-legged beasts . |
| 11 | You are the best and most convincing appointment for London . |
| 12 | Sparrow-sized buntings and redpolls , weighing 30–35 g , are the smallest and perhaps the hardiest of polar birds . |
| 13 | But because of the council 's incompetence , which has meant that her rent card is now marked as owing rent , and lacking a deposit , she would be dependent on a somewhat shady mortgage company for the mortgage to buy such a house ( rent cards are the easiest and most common means of checking on the credit-worthiness of a person on a low income ) . |
| 14 | In sculpture there are the magnificent and intricately carved facades of the church of Notre-Dame-la-Grande in Poitiers and of the cathedral at Angoulême . |
| 15 | After telling the waiting world that Germans , Americans , Dutch and Scandanavians are most forthright and explicit ; that the Japanese , British Italians and French are the vaguest and most subtle ; and that the British , Americans , Dutch and Scandanavians are most informal and jokey , the guide goes on to warn : ‘ Do n't treat anyone as a stereotype ’ . |
| 16 | There are the well-established and highly sought after RSA preparatory courses in addition to numerous other less well-known ones . |
| 17 | Great whites , also known as white pointers , are the biggest and most dangerous shark species found in the waters around Australia . |
| 18 | Arising from the deutocerebrum are four pairs of nerves : the antenna/nerves are the longest and most important , and are the sensory nerves of the antennae though the motor fibres mentioned next are also present in the same nerve ; each has two roots , one of which is derived from the antennal lobe of its side and the other from the dorsal lobe . |
| 19 | Common sites are the short and long saphenous veins of the leg . |
| 20 | Switching now from 1838 to 1868 , one sees , in direct contrast with this earlier view , that a principal object of pangenesis is to explain how in all generation , sexual and asexual , the powers are the same and so , too , the material . |
| 21 | The equilibrium price is the price at which demand and supply are the same and so there is perfect coordination of the wishes of purchasers and sellers . |
| 22 | Michael Fallon , his Conservative opponent , said : ‘ The Labour Party are the last and most recent converts to green issues . ’ |
| 23 | Elves are the oldest and most civilised race on the known world . |
| 24 | Others emerged from the observations of medical practice and from the demographic research that , at least from the turn of the century , endeavoured to disclose those conditions of childbearing that are the most and least detrimental to the health of mothers and their offspring . |
| 25 | Oats are the safest and most natural grain to give to horses ; they have been part of the development of the horse over the last two thousand years . |
| 26 | ‘ I was so astonished that I 've been waiting until people started to come to church so that I could show somebody and you 're the first and most suitable . |
| 27 | There has been a long and rather pointless debate on this question . |
| 28 | It has been a long and widely held assumption that crime is very much more frequent among those of low social status . |
| 29 | Peter clearly took to heart what must have been a challenging and potentially testing message . |
| 30 | On the one hand , there has been a redefinition and tightening of formal controls , but on the other , there has been a simultaneous and sometimes incompatible thrust towards more management autonomy . |