Example sentences of "and [pron] be [prep] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Please inform the parents that my brother and I are in the best of health . |
| 2 | Yes I am at the moment , I , I 'm the highest earner at the moment and I 'm on the highest grade but I have n't been there the longest . |
| 3 | This was a day of staying put in Stornoway and I was in the best of company as Prince Charles was also in town . |
| 4 | It comes close to shaming some of its own stable-mates , too , and they are among the swiftest in their class . |
| 5 | There are British Poundians , and they are among the best . |
| 6 | ‘ And he 's in the best of care at Old Trafford . |
| 7 | It was going to happen to him all over again , and he was in the worst possible company . |
| 8 | And it 's about the easiest piece of cooking you 're ever likely to do . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've set my face towards it , and it 's for the best . |
| 10 | This is a decision by the Natural Environment Research Council and it is for the best scientific reasons . |
| 11 | Huge sums of money were generated by the World Cup and it is of the greatest importance that most of it goes back into the game and its development . |
| 12 | There are several ways of accomplishing this , and it is of the greatest importance that you teach the puppy to recognize its bed . |
| 13 | And it is in the best FE that new methods of assessment , including pupil self-assessment , are most advanced . |
| 14 | Your social worker is there to help you and it is in the best interests of your child for us to work together . |
| 15 | ‘ Natty suddenly called out , ‘ Look massa ’ ; in an instant the air before us seemed literally filled with a dense mass of these birds , which had suddenly rose from under the trees at his exclamation ; we had scarcely time to raise our guns before they were seventy or eighty yards off ; our united discharge , however , brought down eight additional specimens , all of which being merely winged and fluttering about , attracted the attention of our kangaroo dogs , and it was with the greatest difficulty that they could be prevented from tearing them to pieces ; in the midst of the scramble , a kite , with the utmost audacity , came to the attack , and would doubtless , in spite of our presence , have carried off his share , had not the contents of my second barrel stopped his career . |