Example sentences of "[be] [art] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it comes as no surprise to learn that the new film by veteran director Robert Altman — The Player — has been the most talked about movie in studio parking lots and Beverly Hills brasseries this year . |
| 2 | In the Commons , Sir Thomas Clarges moved that " a standing Army is destructive to the Country " , whilst his fellow Tory , Edward Seymour , declared that " the safety of the Kingdom doth not consist with a standing force " , adding ( in a way which anticipated Tory arguments used after 1689 ) that " all the profit and security of this Nation is in our Ships , and had there been the least ship in the Channel " , Monmouth could never have landed . |
| 3 | Personnel people are the worst afflicted with the ailment . |
| 4 | Of these three studies those of Richards and Cripps are the best devised to date . |
| 5 | Pecorino , Feta and Manchego are the best known of the remaining ewes ' milk cheeses . |
| 6 | The unlovely Fannie and her duopolistic cousin , the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation ( Freddie Mac ) , are the best known of that obscure underbelly of the American political system known as government-sponsored enterprises . |
| 7 | Heroin and cocaine These are the best known of the hard drugs . |
| 8 | Women who score high on BSRI androgyny , and who show androgynous or ‘ blended ’ behaviour in sex-typed situations , are the most influenced by traditional gender schemas . |
| 9 | He may have visited Glastonbury on 30 November 1032 , and the five charters from 1033 ( S 967 – 70 , 972 ) are the most to survive from any year of his reign . |
| 10 | And that is despite being named among those who are the lowest paid in the country . |
| 11 | Output expectations for the next four months are the highest recorded by the authoritative monthly survey since May last year . |
| 12 | I 'm afraid we 're a little crowded in here , ’ he confided with a wry smile . |
| 13 | ALTHOUGH I welcome any move towards a more open society I am a little disturbed by the relentless way in which childhood is being forced to be politically correct . |
| 14 | The word ‘ intellectual ’ , of course , has been a traditionally associated with the nature of men as the word ‘ emotional ’ had been associated with the nature of women . |
| 15 | Had I just seen the DOS version , I 'd have been a little niggled about some of the design parameters , but very impressed at the functionality , with an overall favourable opinion . |
| 16 | ‘ Perhaps we 've both been a little affected by the way things have gone . |
| 17 | ‘ It has been a long wait in a queue behind many other people with the same idea who wanted new homes in their neighbourhoods , but it has definitely been worth it . |
| 18 | Bryan Gould , shadow Environment Secretary , says there has been a fivefold increase in planning applications for toxic waste incineration capacity . |
| 19 | As you all know Annabelle has been a much sought after girl/woman , but I 'm pleased to announce the winner of the competition , me . |
| 20 | Home grown leeks , a traditional Easter vegetable , are a best buy at 35–45p a lb for home grown , 65–70p a lb for Dutch . |
| 21 | The integration into mainstream training , of topics that are no immediately recognised by bureaux workers as important , can often be an answer to fulfilling policy requirements . |
| 22 | This restoration has been an off-again-on-again project for several years but recently work has resumed on the Bearcat , which will be the only two seat example flying . |
| 23 | That is not , in any way , to take away from the fine documentation of every tournament played in 1991 , many of which were penned by British tennis journalists , who continue to be the most travelled in the world . |
| 24 | Gable is honest enough to acknowledge that there 's some truth in the saying that no publicity is bad publicity : ‘ The cynical and worldly part of me tells me it 's been wonderful because the production must be the most talked about in 20 years of dance . |
| 25 | A BT spokesman said : ‘ The Pennan box must be the best known in the whole of Scotland . |
| 26 | Management were told at the ritual claim submission in London that Ford workers at the 21 plants wanted to be the best paid in the motor industry . |
| 27 | Let s and t be the least suffices for which unc Consider unc now unc [ since unc and p is a prime ] . |
| 28 | Most Labour Zionists were of German or at any rate European origin , and tended to be the better educated of the Jewish population in Palestine . |
| 29 | In the recession of the early 1980s this service suffered immensely through poor sales and ultra high terminations — in those days it was said that washroom would be the hardest hit in any recession because it was not seen as an essential service ; much confidence was , then lost in the service . |
| 30 | To this end she dressed in the most outrageously modern and expensive clothes , ‘ so that they should be the more staring to men 's sight ’ . |