Example sentences of "[pron] [be] the [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Our eyes and the area around them are the most expressive and sensitive part of our face and during the winter months need more protection than ever . |
2 | Finding patterns of association among indicators will enable us to determine which among them are the most significant . |
3 | These being the conventions whose occurrence is so regular that we barely notice them , the exceptions to them are the more striking . |
4 | ‘ Not at all , I am the most fortunate of men . |
5 | 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 ? |
6 | 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 ! ) |
7 | I am the very proud owner of a Series IIA 2.25 LWB station wagon . |
8 | I am the very proud owner of a Red Snakehead . |
9 | ‘ I 'm the most well blessed man in Liverpool , ’ he joked . |
10 | As for me I 'm the most successful because I can box a little , punch a little , strut a little and talk a little . |
11 | He said , he said I 'm the most beautifulest girl in the world ! |
12 | ARSENAL star David Hillier joked yesterday : ‘ Fifty games and I 'm the most experienced midfielder in the team . ’ |
13 | ‘ I might not be the youngest candidate but I 'm the most experienced and I think I have the most energy , ’ he says . |
14 | ‘ I 've heard that I 'm the most unsavoury , unconscionable character that ever existed but people all want to be associated with me and sit with me , ’ he said . |
15 | I mean , I 'm the most unsociable person I 've ever met . ’ |
16 | I 'm the most superstitious man I know . |
17 | ‘ And he 'll think I 'm the most likely person . |
18 | My mum always tells me I 'm the most beautiful woman in the world ; she told me this even when I had chickenpox ! ’ |
19 | You 've made things admirably clear , and I 'm the more grateful to the Commissioner for taking what may turn out to be my unfounded worries so seriously . |
20 | Ross is probably right that his is the more common sense view , but it may still strike us as extremely odd that it could ever be one 's duty not to do what which would certainly have the best results . |
21 | He was in effect the news " general " and I was the most junior of his three assistants . |
22 | But I was the most expensive single piece of aid donated to that district of Ghana — more than the money for sinking wells — so it is relevant to ask whether it was worth it . |
23 | I was the greatest of the spell weavers and I was the most powerful enchanter they had ever known . ’ |
24 | I was the most nervous I have ever been . |
25 | I was the most cold blooded , sadistic person you could think of . |
26 | … And it seemed there ought to be music , so Esther Allan , the music teacher at the school where I was the most reluctant member of the Art Department , got roped in . |
27 | Yet neither her ladyship nor I was the least surprised . |
28 | I knew that academically I was the least qualified and assumed I would n't get it . |
29 | I was the very last in the row , along with my film camera crew . |
30 | While Miller was preparing the Kalendar , he was told of the ‘ ungenerous intention ’ of others to use Dictionary information for the same purpose , ‘ upon which I was the more intent to have it published before such a design could be accomplished by any other hand , which was not very difficult for me to do , having a complete Diary of my own , so that I had little more to do than to transcribe my loose papers and dispose them into the method wherein they are here presented to the world . ’ |