Example sentences of "be the [adj -est] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A field discovered following the controversial opening up of the Santa Maria basin off California could turn out to be the largest discovered since the Prudhoe Bay field in Alaska but the most stringent efforts will do no more than mitigate an inevitable production decline . |
| 3 | It wo n't be the greatest place you 've ever lived , I know , but at least it 's going to be dry and … ’ |
| 4 | The policy stakes have been raised ; but nowhere more so than in Britain , which will be the luckiest to avoid a ( pre-election ) recession . |
| 5 | She later found out that the bosses of the two companies had got together to work out which one of the couple would be the cheapest to sack . |
| 6 | Which would be the cheapest to run ? |
| 7 | Such areas also tend to be the cheapest to get into . |
| 8 | On the same day investors in the somewhat better known Gartmore heard that their fund management group was to be the latest to change hands . |
| 9 | The scale of the work varied but they were generally scenes from nature , the type of thing popularly believed to be the easiest to sell but not necessarily the easiest to paint . |
| 10 | Visual distraction may be the easiest to contend with . |
| 11 | Quantitive data , such as examination passes , tend to be the easiest to measure , and schools have rightly worried about the use to which these can be put when comparing one school with another . |
| 12 | Naturally , as it had to be the biggest show the town had ever seen , or nothing , so Bill hired the two brightest theatrical stars of the day to bowl to Len . |
| 13 | Two men , guiding power mowers , were cutting the gigantic surface of the joint 5th and 13th green which , at 5,550 square yards , might well be the biggest putting surface in the world . |
| 14 | Twin Oaks looks a great type for the fences and may be the hardest to beat but I also have a healthy respect for Cool Ground and Brown Windsor . |
| 15 | Growth rates in the countries of sub-Saharan Africa will be the slowest to fall off , and by 2020 Nigeria is likely to become the world 's fourth most populous country with 350 million people . |