Example sentences of "be [verb] [art] [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This particular evening we 'd been to see the latest Lloyd Webber musical and I was high on the music , treading on air … ’ |
| 2 | However , until that stage is reached , all we can do is to ensure that the animals whose flesh we devour are given the best possible lifestyle and are then despatched as quickly and painlessly as possible . |
| 3 | Do my right hon. and hon. Friends agree that if we are to have an effective Royal Air Force , it is essential that our pilots are given the best possible training , including training in operating at below the level of enemy radar ? |
| 4 | If you just pull the plug it does n't have time to erase the temporary files it used and if you are using the latest SmartDrv utility you might even lose data that you thought was safely written to disk . |
| 5 | Routine checks of ward rosters should be made to assess that ward managers are producing the best match between patient needs and staff off duty entitlements . |
| 6 | When finally a small boy was sent to ask him what he was up to , he replied : ‘ Here I am building the biggest , the best kiln Hua Xian has ever seen ’ . |
| 7 | You have to know where you 're going if you are to plan the best way of getting there ! |
| 8 | It has been given the lowest efficiency target in the country by the Government 's new Passenger 's Charter . |
| 9 | But the scale of the tragedy exposed by Michael Buerk and his BBC camera crew , and the response it provoked in the no-bullshit , energetic , passionately caring rock musician Bob Geldof meant that old-world attitudes towards the plight of helpless peoples have been given the biggest jolt since the anti-slavery campaigns of the nineteenth century . |
| 10 | Brintons company has been manufacturing the finest quality of woven carpets for over 200 years , and it is a private company which specializes in producing Axminster and Wilton carpets in which enters a high percentage of wool / . |
| 11 | Solid fuel is the heating fuel we have been using the longest . |
| 12 | They have the greatest reproductive success and in terms of Darwinian evolution it is Third World rapidly expanding populations which are enjoying the highest levels of reproductive success . |
| 13 | Once sample preparation has been completed the simplest analyses may be performed on the largest particles . |
| 14 | Just Top service : Stockton trained Edwin Taylor has been nominated the best trainee waiter in Britain the second consecutive year a trainee with the Middlesbrough based Hotel and Catering Training Company has won the award . |
| 15 | Endoscopic ultrasound has been considered the best procedure for assessing the preoperative staging of oesophageal carcinoma but few studies have considered its efficacy in evaluating the response to chemo or radiotherapy . |
| 16 | I have been driving the best of the best-selling model , the X2 1.5 hatchback , updated at the last Motor Show . |
| 17 | She has been voted the best assistant in the store by her colleagues , and goes on to the next leg of the competition , the district semi-finals on April 10th . |
| 18 | Trevor 's daughter Tracy was the star of the evening , and has been voted the best raffle ticket-drawer we have had ! |
| 19 | LAURENCEKIRK , Turriff and East Wemyss Branches have been voted the best in Scotland — and the best in Britain — by Royal Bank customers . |
| 20 | BOB Geldof has been voted the worst dressed celebrity for the second year running by youngsters between 11 and 18 in a Lloyds Bank survey . |
| 21 | In this case heterostracans are considered the closest relatives of gnathostome ; this is based on the speculation that heterostracans had paired nasal sacs and paired nostrils as seen in jawed vertebrates . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , her life 's achievements in floral anatomy are considered the greatest effort since the early pioneering work sixty years previously , and her papers continue to be heavily cited . |
| 23 | November to March are considered the best months . |
| 24 | Had not John of Gaunt been reckoned the richest man in the kingdom ? |
| 25 | THE Bank 's Cashline network has been named the busiest in Britain with each of the 770 machines paying out an average £4.5 million a year . |
| 26 | Does the Secretary of State accept that urgent action is needed in the west midlands if we are to halt the worst fall in manufacturing investment in history ? |
| 27 | They 're considered the best talkers , and fetch high prices as pets . |
| 28 | They 're considered the best talkers , and fetch high prices as pets . |
| 29 | Experts say the latest outbreak is n't as serious as the epidemic of '89 … but they 're warning the worst is still to come . |
| 30 | He let her leave the room before going across to Aggie , who was standing now looking down into the fire , and he patted the back of her shoulder , saying , ‘ You 're doin' the best thing , Aggie , the only thing . |