Example sentences of "that [be] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That s the worst possible thing to do . |
| 2 | Might not that be the greatest thing ? |
| 3 | Shall we , if I go up and hand stuff down will that be the easiest way of doing it ? |
| 4 | Head of sixth : This year they 're mostly Indians , that is the largest ethnic group of people who stay on to the sixth form , followed by the white children , then the Pakistani and West Indian in very small numbers . |
| 5 | That is the largest debt collection exercise in history . |
| 6 | That is the highest for five and a half years and is on course to reach three million around Christmas or early in the New Year . |
| 7 | A former IBM Corp employee has been arraigned on seven counts of grand larceny for allegedly stealing more than $49m worth of mainframe memory boards from the company — but you 're meant to laugh at the $49m figure , because that is the highest price at which they were included in the price list , and very few customers are likely ever to have paid it ; the indictment by an Ulster County grand jury charged Carl McDonald , 41 , of Poughkeepsie conspired to steal 3,381 mainframe memory boards from IBM 's complex in Kingston , and allegedly sold the boards for $7m , a more realistic valuation , to computer firms in Texas , Minnesota , California , Canada and here in the UK ; no names . |
| 8 | That is the greatest irony of all . |
| 9 | That is the greatest script I have ever read . |
| 10 | That is the greatest value of indoor competition . |
| 11 | But Fraser , pressed on the question of value for money resorted to other arguments : " they are more economical , but they are not so satisfactory , they are always going off for sickness of some kind or another , or their mother is ill or something of that kind — that is the greatest trouble , their mother is ill constantly " . |
| 12 | ‘ … and that is the greatest danger , according to Minch , ’ Kraal told him one day , concluding a brief account of what life in the Cages was like . |
| 13 | Warm up first ( follow the exercises in Chapter 6 — The Walker 's Workout ) , start slowly and do n't hurt yourself , for that is the fastest way to break the routine in your programme and is often the reason why so many exercise programmes fail . |
| 14 | . That is the crappiest house that I 've ever seen . |
| 15 | And that is the best thing I ever heard . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Yes , often that is the best way to start . |
| 17 | The world is changing , and just because defence , nuclear energy and agricultural research have been done in certain ways in the past does not mean that that is the best way now . |
| 18 | 17.68 As James Britton and his colleagues put it : ‘ very close reading of children 's writing is essential , because that is the best means we have of understanding their writing processes . |
| 19 | ‘ In 10 or 15 years William will be an adult capable of taking on those responsibilities , and the Royal Family may well feel that is the best option for everybody . ’ |
| 20 | And his quality show earned the praise of manager Steve Gritt , who said : ‘ That is the best all-round performance I 've seen from him and for the second game in succession he 's earned us a draw . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ If that is the best my players can do then they are not good enough , ’ he fumed . |
| 22 | ‘ I think that is the best way for England to play . |
| 23 | We think that is the best method . |
| 24 | In the long run , that is the best way of protecting staff and customers alike . |
| 25 | We must discuss carefully whether that is the best way that money should be spent . |
| 26 | That is the best way of providing a good environment in which businesses can flourish . |
| 27 | That is the best forum for that to be thrashed out and , I hope , in the end resolved . |
| 28 | Are we not being taught the lesson that parents want independence for their schools — whether or not they are in the state sector — because that is the best way of achieving the best possible education for children in Ealing , Cleveland and everywhere else ? |
| 29 | That is the best way to back Britain and British industry . |
| 30 | That is the best thing for industry and for a strong recovery from the recession . |