Example sentences of "it have [be] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It has been the largest and longest sustained fall in unemployment in the history of this country . ’ |
| 2 | In this Marx has been proved by subsequent anthropology to be quite right , and many anthropologists would argue that the attribution of the profit motive to people who do not have it has been the greatest hindrance to an understanding of pre-capitalist societies . |
| 3 | It has been the biggest frustration of my career . ’ |
| 4 | But he said : ‘ It has been the biggest mistake of my life . ’ |
| 5 | It had been the faintest of sounds , but it was enough to bring her slowly to her feet , alert and expectant . |
| 6 | It had been the blackest day of the war when the government announced the rationing of tea . |
| 7 | Perdita listened to her mother grinding gears and going on and on and on about how marvellously Perdita had played and how it had been the proudest moment of her life , and how everyone from Rupert to Brigadier Canford said what a great future she had and Drew this and Drew that . |
| 8 | By the week 's end the proctologist was saying that it had been the best goddamned vacation he had ever taken , and as we passed the bunkering moorings near McIllvanney 's yard I saw him take Ellen aside and I guessed he was offering her a job . |
| 9 | It had been the best day yet . |
| 10 | It had been the merest afterthought . |
| 11 | Yes , it had been the worst possible way to discover his betrayal . |
| 12 | Outwardly it had been the easiest and quietest of times that the house had ever known but the unease did not go away . |
| 13 | But it had been the easiest of the three days . |
| 14 | Hard left pamphlet ‘ You all sound so unhappy ; it 's been the best week of my life . ’ |
| 15 | It 's been the best ten years St Mary 's ever had … you being here . ’ |
| 16 | It 's been the best weekend ever for one Town fan … |
| 17 | It 's been the best weekend ever for one Town fan … |
| 18 | It 's been the best bit of talent we 've , they 've seen for a long while ! |
| 19 | It 's been the best investment I 've ever made . |
| 20 | And in fact , I overheard Sir Ewen say it 's been the smallest for the past hundred years . ’ |
| 21 | It 's been the driest period since the 1930s . |
| 22 | what I most often heard when I phoned people a couple of days in was that it 's been the worst two days of my life ! |
| 23 | He says it 's been the worst 3 years of his life . |