Example sentences of "be [adv] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Butthole Surfers are perhaps the ultimate expression of hardcore 's predilections . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The gigantic Tertiary boulder beds of Ecuador are perhaps the best-known example . |
| 12 | Regarded as a liberal , Bessmertnykh , 57 , had been hitherto the Soviet ambassador to the United States , and before that a First Deputy Foreign Minister . |
| 13 | Many of the sounds we hear emanating from insects , for example , are only the bottom end of a spectrum of sound signals much of which lie above the auditory frequencies to which our ears are attuned . |
| 14 | What is visible are merely the rough foundation stones . |
| 15 | Healings , exorcisms , tongues , prophecy are merely the spectacular tip of the iceberg , the heart of which is a living , loving , believing Christian fellowship . |
| 16 | It may though , have been just the right setting for those particular films . |
| 17 | ‘ I think a part of me probably died when I took your job , though it may have been just the settling-down thing . |
| 18 | We meet our main deadlines , which are normally the key deadline normally the S and C. |
| 19 | I am not the only person left in the world . |
| 20 | I am not the only person who has had a tumultuous year , and I am immensley proud of the way the British face their problems and so often succeed despite them . |
| 21 | And I am not the only woman who wants a fulfilling working life and domesticity as well . |
| 22 | I AM sure I am not the only woman who wept in sympathy , shame and anger at the outrage done to the people of Warrington . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , the words of a hymn are generally the determining factor for its inclusion in a service . |
| 24 | One of the more obvious characteristics of partnerships has been that educational partners are generally the poor relation — at least they usually behave as if they are — probably because partnerships are measured essentially in terms of cash rather than other kinds of resource such as accommodation , talent , expertise , knowledge and creativity . |
| 25 | In the UK , shrouds are generally the only option available . |
| 26 | There are already the olive oil and the garlic and the aromatic herbs of Provence ; there are the cream and the cheeses of the Dauphine ; there are the sumptuously cooked duck and chicken dishes of the Ardè ; che side of the Rhone . |
| 27 | They are not the perfect team . |
| 28 | They are not the perfect team . |
| 29 | They are not the perfect team . |
| 30 | Flowers are not the sole attraction at Barnsley.Rosemary Verey has also created a decorative vegetable garden.Known as a potager , it mixes vegetables and flowers to create greater variety : |