Example sentences of "have [adv] be the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has long been the largest voluntary nature conservation organisation in Europe . |
| 2 | IT HAS not been the best of weeks for managers , a thought with which Graham Souness might agree . |
| 3 | The history of computer graphics in film production has not been the smoothest . |
| 4 | At the end of what has not been the easiest of years for trading conditions , I am pleased to say that we are just about on target and set fair for 1993 . |
| 5 | In my view , a although there 's a current debate about this there has not been the fullest public consultation and I would er myself be minded to invoke the er E C directive on this er in order to try and er to make sure that the the public feel they are fully aware of what the proposals are . |
| 6 | Barry has always been the best man for the job and we 're going to continue our partnership . ’ |
| 7 | The documentation for these drawings has always been the best of any British collection of its type , and after the paring away of the greatest country house collection of drawings Chatsworth 's by the two Christie 's sales of the 1980s , Holkham remained the most important extant . |
| 8 | ‘ The strange thing is that he has always been the soundest of horses and never taken a lame step in his life . |
| 9 | NALGO in particular has adopted very good policies , which makes my own employment more secure , and of all the organisations listed I would suggest that NALGO 's contribution has probably been the greatest . |
| 10 | For example , television has probably been the biggest consumer electronics success of all time . |
| 11 | In the context of the agreement , analysts were quoted as suggesting that acquiring a software base for a new supercomputer has traditionally been the biggest drag on sales , and doubting that Convex and HP had cracked it — but up to now there has been no massively parallel machine that is both hardware-and software-compatible with a big existing applications base . |
| 12 | In the context of the agreement , analysts were quoted as suggesting that acquiring a software base for a new supercomputer has traditionally been the biggest drag on sales , and doubting that Convex and Hewlett had cracked it — but up to now there has been no massively parallel machine that is both hardware- and software-compatible with a big existing applications base . |
| 13 | Being a West Indian spinner in recent years has n't been the safest of occupations , but Roger Harper played throughout the 1984 series . |
| 14 | Pavel knew that he 'd not been the best company but then , they had n't been treating this job as anything particularly special . |
| 15 | This is particularly so in the field of Scottish education , where folklore about having once been the best in the world has too easily fostered the delusion that restoring the old ways is the route to excellence . |
| 16 | Naylor Massingham had not been the easiest of people to deal with when he 'd been in her home ; how would she fare now that she was , so to speak , on his territory ? |
| 17 | They 've hardly been the best parents in the world , have they ? |
| 18 | Until I arrived , he had always been the smallest person in the country ( he was about ten metres tall ) . |
| 19 | What had once been the greatest and most prosperous of Elf realms had effectively ceased to be . |
| 20 | The animal had been plunging towards the shelter of a riverside bamboo grove when he fired and it had probably been the best shot of his life . |
| 21 | The woman had also been the nearest she could get to contrite about what had happened in her apartment . |
| 22 | It had n't been the greatest operation anyway , because it seemed that Jenner and Professor Liawski had some big argument around ‘ seventy-nine . ’ |
| 23 | It had n't been the best of weekends . |
| 24 | So OK , she had n't been the best dinner companion in the world that evening , but she had n't asked him to take her out , he had asked her . |
| 25 | The situation was different , because the Conservatives had then been the largest party , whereas they were now 26 seats behind the Labour Party . |
| 26 | Japan had previously been the largest single user of the nets , up to 50 km long and intended primarily for catching tuna , squid and pink salmon , but fiercely criticized by environmentalists as " walls of death " which caused widespread unintentional deaths of marine mammals and other sea creatures . |
| 27 | Japan had previously been the largest single user of the nets , which have been criticized as " walls of death " which caused widespread unintentional deaths of dolphins , whales and other sea creatures . |
| 28 | It 's not been the best of years so far for Jimmy White , who was dubbed the bridesmaid of snooker after losing his fourth world championship final in May . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's not been the best of times for us result-wise recently which makes it an even better performance . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ In England we had Morris dancing , mostly knee down , and our ballet dancers have always been the best for quick , precise footwork . |