Example sentences of "and [pron] be [adv] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dally goes as far as to state that it indicates a bad prognosis for the disease , but I am glad to be able to report that although my jealousy continued into my adolescence , including the anorexic period , it did not deter my recovery , and that my sisters and I are now the best of friends . |
| 2 | I 'm one of the best marksmen in Europe , and you are possibly the biggest grouse in Europe . ’ |
| 3 | Special mention simply must be make of the members of the Cathedral 's Catholic Mothers group who helped Mrs Roberton with the lynches , and who were perhaps the best of all the many good things that happened to our 1981 Christian Aid programme . |
| 4 | The navigator was a young sergeant named Mike Sadler who had emigrated to Rhodesia before the war and who was arguably the best at finding his way around the Libyan desert . |
| 5 | French was her subject , and she was potentially the classiest teacher in the school . |
| 6 | That country was held fast in the grip of a most oppressive regime and there was never the remotest possibility that anyone could come . |
| 7 | Regular use of a small brush , and a squeeze of the foam in tank water will suffice to keep these filters in tip-top working order , and they are perhaps the easiest to maintain . |
| 8 | We did a John Peel radio session a while ago and me and Debbie both used these really early seventies Thin Lizzy amps and they were just the best . |
| 9 | Not even his young sister — and they were usually the worst of all . |
| 10 | And they were hardly the friendliest creatures on the face of the earth . |
| 11 | Sometimes he set the sessions , and they were quite the toughest bouts of training that I have ever undertaken . |
| 12 | His name is Jack Russell and he is also the best wicketkeeper in England . |
| 13 | At the Stella Artois Grass Court Championships , he showed once again , that give him grass , a ‘ bat ’ , and he is surely the best striker of a ball in the world . |
| 14 | It was a feeling she had never had before , not even with Kenny , and he was probably the best friend she ever had . |
| 15 | Of all the members of the party he was the one from whom the most endurance was called , but of all the members of the party he was perhaps the only one unused to sustained walking or manual labour , and he was also the smallest . |
| 16 | ‘ The terrible part about that , ’ Richards said , ‘ is that its perfectly true , and it 's also the stupidest thing ever said . ’ |
| 17 | You know , she says , in every Catholic family , er , there is always a relapse person , and it 's usually the nicest . |
| 18 | Dick Hansen already feels that he has had his reward , it 's the P-40 and it is probably the best one in the world . |
| 19 | For racing yachts it generally provides the lightest of all hulls and it is also the cheapest way of getting a ‘ one-off ’ design built . |
| 20 | There is still an unspoken assumption that it will be the women who make the sacrifices when it comes to childcare and it is perhaps the thickest glass ceiling of all for many women . |
| 21 | It was to be the source of seemingly endless conflict for centuries to come , and it is still the greatest of all impediments to human progress . |
| 22 | ‘ We fell apart , lost 63–6 and it was probably the lowest point in the international careers of all 15 players , ’ he said . |
| 23 | But I did kick the drug , Mr Breakspear , and it was probably the hardest damned thing I ever did in all my life . |
| 24 | But this had to be real specific and it was probably the biggest challenge I 've ever had . |
| 25 | ‘ I went back not long ago , and it was still the coldest place on earth . ’ |
| 26 | And there are notes on subjects such as fruit crystalisation and what is possibly the best explanation published of how and why jams set . |