Example sentences of "[adj -est] thing to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Someone once said that playing patience was the nearest thing to being dead . ’ |
| 2 | Nobody can replace that — buzz , but for me , rallying is the nearest thing to being high again . |
| 3 | When W. H. Auden once found him playing that game and asked him why he seemed to relish it , he reflected gravely and then replied , " Well , I suppose it 's the nearest thing to being dead " . |
| 4 | That afternoon Adam , knowing it was not the wisest thing to be doing in his celibate situation , lay on the terrace reading Fanny Hill . |
| 5 | I thought the best thing to be , before this went any further , was brisk . |
| 6 | It was the best thing to be quiet and say nothing — to push it all away into a dark place like the cupboard under the stairs so it could be forgotten like an old raincoat or last summer 's shoes . |