Example sentences of "be the finest " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm really worried , concerned about the integrity of what has been the finest service in the world . ’ |
| 2 | He could have been the finest brain surgeon England has ever seen … even blind he is a superb concert pianist … |
| 3 | These are the finest flowers of our domestic architecture . |
| 4 | Meantime , there was a lot happening just down the street to capture his attention , as troop after troop of soldiers passed through Frome on their way somewhere else : 300 of the Staffordshire Militia came in April of 1799 , replaced by an equal number of the same later in the month ; then the 300-strong Somerset Supplementary Militia arrived from Wells , complete with their own band , followed by the glorious Fifteenth Light Dragoons — ‘ It is supposed that these are the finest men and horses of any regiment in England ’ ; and the next year no fewer than nine hundred men of the Seventeenth Regiment of Light Dragoons came at one go . |
| 5 | Among its treasures are the finest byzantine mosaics in the east , surpassing even the golden domes in St. Mark 's Square . |
| 6 | A House are the finest band Ireland has ever produced . |
| 7 | " We Portuguese are the finest seafaring nation in the whole of Christendom , " she said , " and no Valdez de Santarém would break his word . |
| 8 | Despite some fine passages in the Services of Tomkins and Weelkes , and the two specimens by Gibbons , it is their anthems — and some of those by their lesser contemporaries — which are the finest flowers of Anglican church music in this , its greatest , period . |
| 9 | The doors , which are the finest ancient examples in Rome , were originally gold plated . |
| 10 | These mosaics stem from different periods ; the earlier ones by Byzantine Greek craftsmen are the finest , the later Italian ones are less rich and vital . |
| 11 | Those of the tenth century are the finest and richest . |
| 12 | McCoys are the finest crisp you can get , shut up . |
| 13 | Floundering excitedly among the real salmon , he had not noticed the water bailiff , who observed , ‘ Bedad , your honour , you 're the finest fish I ever see in this ladder this long time . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ You 're the finest Elphberg of them all , ’ he said with feeling . |
| 15 | As Dickstein points out , much of James 's critical writing was produced according to the exigencies of journalism and magazine publication ; nevertheless , as now brought together in two large and handsome volumes in the Library of America series , it must be the finest body of literary criticism in English from a single author . |
| 16 | The grounds , 2000 acres of parkland , was designed by the famous Capability Brown which contains a large man-made lake crossed by the Grand Bridge designed by Vanbrugh and is reputed to be the finest bridge in Europe . |
| 17 | He claimed to be feeling like ‘ a bit of chewed-up string ’ when he walked out for what was to be the finest ride of his life . |
| 18 | The new gondola lift whisks you high into the mountains , to views which are reputed to be the finest in the Tyrol . |
| 19 | At the bottom of the same road is the elegant triple-tiered Palazzo Tarsis , built around 1836 for Paolo Tarsis and reckoned to be the finest example of Neo-Classical architecture in the city . |
| 20 | Nevertheless it is widely believed to be the finest of all the remaining gates of the Spanish walls . |
| 21 | Charles Henstock , whose belief in an after-life was absolute , had never been able to persuade his old friend to share his convictions , and he had once told Donald , after an amicable exchange of views on the subject , that he considered the doctor to be the finest unbeliever he had been privileged to meet . |
| 22 | Their administrators then proceeded to act in accordance with what they took to be the finest traditions of their service and stood up for them . |
| 23 | The aquarium gravel used should preferably be the finest grade available , but not fine enough to impede filtration . |
| 24 | These lines , said Tolkien , ‘ have been held to be the finest expression of the northern heroic spirit , Norse or English ; the clearest statement of the doctrine of uttermost endurance in the service of indomitable will ’ . |
| 25 | I consider Glen Nevis to be the finest of Scottish glens . |
| 26 | Milton 's God was Empson 's last book , in his lifetime , though when he died he was collecting at least three others : Using Biography ( 1984 ) , on Marvell , Dryden , Fielding , Yeats , Eliot and Joyce ; Essays on Shakespeare ( 1986 ) ; and a book of Renaissance essays , as well as a massive ragbag ( as he called it ) of papers and reviews dating back to the 1920s which , when it posthumously appeared as Argufying ( 1987 ) , was rapidly seen by many to be the finest critical miscellany in the language . |
| 27 | The plan 's logic suggests that curators in the four cities would compete to be independent and daring , that the four venues would give exhibitions more attention than individual biennial shows and that the public would benefit from a greater exposure to work judged to be the finest of contemporary art . |
| 28 | He is reputed to be the finest swordsman in the Empire . |
| 29 | These have to be the finest among American concertos : the Barber is standard repertoire now , but Serenade ( after Plato , ‘ in praise of love ’ ) is only just beginning to emerge as one of Bernstein 's highly select group of masterpieces — about time too . |
| 30 | There , 50 or so textile mills produce what is widely acknowledged to be the finest wool cloth in the world . |