Example sentences of "[be] the [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Not at all , I am the most fortunate of men . |
| 2 | The one-night stand is an obvious high-risk adventure and the question should be asked , ‘ Do I find myself in bed with this person because I am the most attractive/ vivacious/brawny/amusing person that he/she has ever met or , if that is not true , what was he/she doing last night , and the night before , and the night before ? |
| 3 | I am the very proud owner of a Series IIA 2.25 LWB station wagon . |
| 4 | I am the very proud owner of a Red Snakehead . |
| 5 | I still think I am the more domineering , but that is only because she is so polite + generally does n't put up a fight ! ( or used not to ! ) |
| 6 | The only green shoots seen so far have been the slightly faster growth of notes and coin in circulation , which is partly the result of the fall in interest rates which can be earned on money in the bank . |
| 7 | There is little doubt , moreover , that in the nuclear age the deterrence mode of thinking has by and large been the intellectually prevalent one . |
| 8 | Equally predictable , but more depressing , has been the immediately dismissive response of many of the thinkers of the new left , the Marquandistas , the realigners , the constitutionalists and the electoral reformers . |
| 9 | My expressing some Fear of being troublesome in coming so frequently , occasioned a great Variety of Invitations , both in Verse and Prose ; which I could seldom resist : And indeed her whole Behaviour to me was so extremely good-natur 'd and obliging , that I must have been the most ungrateful Person in the World , if I had not endeavour 'd to make some Return . |
| 10 | The eurobond market has been the most innovative of all bond markets in designing new types of bond , both in terms of coupon payments and redemption proceeds . |
| 11 | ‘ But Hawaiian music has always been the most hybridised music in the whole Pacific , because the island was the most impacted by other people . |
| 12 | Having tried it both ways , I am more comfortable with the single act approach , and in the history of rock management , that has generally been the most successful route . |
| 13 | The British Conservative party has been the most successful political party of the modern era . |
| 14 | It had not , she decided , been the most successful training evening of all time . |
| 15 | Gossyplure , the sex pheromone of the pink bollworm , has been the most successful to date . |
| 16 | He added : ‘ The Airbus has been the most successful venture into the civilian aerospace industry in the last 20 years . ’ |
| 17 | Franklin Roosevelt , generally agreed to have been the most successful of modern presidents , had , by contrast , no national legislative experience and had held only very junior office in Woodrow Wilson 's administration . |
| 18 | Motability has earned one peerage and an OBE or two , but otherwise virtue is its own reward , and so far as I am concerned , it has been the most successful achievement of my career and the most fortunate thought that ever came into my head . |
| 19 | In hindsight , with Crowe having led the team imaginatively and been the most successful batsman of the World Cup , this initiative of the selectors does not seem bright , but it was more understandable when it was made . |
| 20 | As a force for maintaining peace and preserving freedom , Nato has been the most successful military alliance in history . |
| 21 | HOUSTON — BPX appears to have been the most successful bidder in Western Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf Lease Sale 143 . |
| 22 | One member of each pair was asked to describe a drawing for their partner to draw — the casters ' may not have been the most successful — but it certainly proved to be the funniest ! |
| 23 | It has been the most successful new beer product launched in the UK off-trade over the last decade . |
| 24 | In his opening speech on June 3 , the UNCED Secretary-General , Maurice Strong , told delegates : " We have been the most successful species ever . |
| 25 | It was just what United needed and it rattled Leicester who in recent weeks have been the most successful team in the table . |
| 26 | ‘ It illustrates , ’ says chairman Garry , ‘ that we have been the most successful North-East club over the past 20-odd years . ’ |
| 27 | In this book , we tried to develop a somewhat new approach to grammar , based on the idea that grammar , to be useful to the learner , should be ‘ communicative ’ , i.e. should relate the forms and structures of the language to their meaning and use In terms of the number of copies sold , this has been the most successful book of which I have been an author . |
| 28 | Will the right hon. Gentleman , in his swan song at the Dispatch Box , admit that not only has he been the most expensive Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food , supporting an increase in CAP spending of 55 per cent. , but that , by his failure to get meaningful reform of the CAP , he has been the most unsuccessful one , as well ? |
| 29 | Although the London unemployed had been the most vociferous during the depression years they had achieved very little . |
| 30 | This has always been the most controversial of Toscanini 's NBC opera recordings . |