Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] be the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because rates are not fixed , schemes offering good returns now may soon not be the best deals . |
| 2 | Such a near-continuous set of numbers can only be obtained if nine records are stored per track , and this will usually not be the best number of records for the file under consideration . |
| 3 | Just how these habitual patterns are to be internalized for easy access is another matter : direct inducement by repetitive drill may well not be the best way , in which case the thing to do is to think of other techniques . |
| 4 | In so far as the letters make statements about what is happening in the territory of some foreign state , such letters may not be the best evidence ; but as regards the question whether Her Majesty 's Government has dealings with the foreign government it will almost certainly be the best and only conclusive evidence of that fact . |
| 5 | If the explosive used was Semtex it would almost certainly be the biggest IRA bomb ever planted on the British mainland . |
| 6 | For them the twin notions of ‘ education ’ and ‘ schooling ’ , which are still locked together in everyday parlance , are beginning to tear apart , and there is an uncomfortable sense that the latter may no longer be the best vehicle for the delivery of the former . |
| 7 | I may no longer be the best thing that Limerick has yet produced . |
| 8 | They might no longer be the biggest landowners : more people now worked off the estate than on it . |
| 9 | It might seem a little unreasonable at first sight but believe me this is a possible approach , and under the circumstances it may very well be the best approach . |