Example sentences of "be [adv] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are numerically the largest group of people at risk , they present the most complex problems and their needs have the most impact on families and communities . |
| 2 | But the extended sets of variations usually on popular songs , but sometimes on dance-tunes or the notes of the hexachord , generally increasing in complication and technical difficulty toward the end , which are arguably the chief glory of virginal music , have been plausibly derived from the diferencias of Cabezon ( see pp. 236–7 ) . |
| 3 | The sermons in which it is presented are arguably the finest contribution to moral philosophy in English . |
| 4 | He had been right the first time . |
| 5 | If initial position is reserved for theme and if topic always occurs in initial position , then theme and topic are presumably the same thing . |
| 6 | For three centuries , however , an incident of landownership has been effectively the sole right to shoot deer on that land , either for sport or to prevent damage . |
| 7 | So it is misleading to suggest , as many psychologists and sociobiologists are prone to do , that these mechanisms are necessarily the prime mechanism affecting awareness and action . |
| 8 | Bus and train are much the same price at the moment though it 's quicker to take the bus . |
| 9 | Especially since the ‘ efficiency savings ’ from 10 years of government cuts are much the same size . |
| 10 | In the nests of the few species that feed exclusively on carrion , the queen cells and food storage cells are much the same size . |
| 11 | Sara and Patsy are much the same age and are very fond of each other . |
| 12 | Socially , though , he and Karen , who taught part-time at a girls ' school in Headington , were both from a lower-middle-class , comp/tech background , and it may not have been only the fearsome price of property in the North Oxford heartlands which had put them off moving there . |
| 13 | I hope I have made it clear now that although ( 1 ) to ( 5 ) are basically the same structure , each modification is itself a sufficient change to make it a different kind of game — and thus the experience is a different one according to which is chosen ( either by the teacher or the participants themselves ) . |
| 14 | Z Z Top are perhaps the only boogie band with a sense of irony , and their Greatest Hits package shows how brilliantly they combine John Lee Hooker with T-Rex . |
| 15 | If one excludes cooking utensils , rugs are perhaps the only form of furnishing conducive to this nomadic way of life , because , when spread on the floor , they provide both a comfortable place to sit and a sanitary surface from which to eat food . |
| 16 | They are perhaps the perfect mix for America : a friendly logo , a psychedelic edge , a great show and an Englishness guaranteed to stir the Anglophile lurking in every American . |
| 17 | Laws are perhaps the best example of written , formal rules . |
| 18 | Early 2.8-litre cars are perhaps the best value around , particularly those with high mileage . |
| 19 | The quite extraordinarily polarised assessments of his life and work are perhaps the ultimate tribute to the enduring potency of his political and literary activities . |
| 20 | Butthole Surfers are perhaps the ultimate expression of hardcore 's predilections . |
| 21 | Most people find it easy to drink large quantities of calorific drinks , sweet or alcoholic , without in any way lessening or delaying their appetite for the next meal — and these drinks , and sugar itself , are perhaps the ultimate example of fibre-free calories . |
| 22 | The gigantic Tertiary boulder beds of Ecuador are perhaps the best-known example . |
| 23 | The financial markets are perhaps the biggest gamble of all and the dividing line between " normal " risk-taking and compulsive gambling , sharp practice and even criminality can become exceedingly thin . |
| 24 | Graphic novels are perhaps the latest form of comic , an attempt to make it part of literature . |
| 25 | Regarded as a liberal , Bessmertnykh , 57 , had been hitherto the Soviet ambassador to the United States , and before that a First Deputy Foreign Minister . |
| 26 | INXS are only the second Aussie band to crash into the album charts at No 1 . |
| 27 | National data on the use of each part of the service by age and sex , married persons and unmarried persons , is used as the basis of these weightings , but they are only the first stage . |
| 28 | However , as was pointed out there , the waves predicted by such theory are only the first stage of the evolution towards turbulent motion . |
| 29 | Elections , however , are only the first step . |
| 30 | Our experiments with Zeta are only the first milestone along what may be a longish road , and we can not see the end of the road . |