Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What they most prized was the untitled Freedom of Bristol which was accorded to them and to two more of their relations . |
| 2 | What he most enjoyed were the historical investigations , the satisfaction of demonstrating , as he had only last month , that a document dated 1872 was printed on paper containing chemical wood-pulp which was first used in 1874 , a discovery which had initiated a fascinating unravelling of complicated documentary fraud . |
| 3 | The long-standing philosophical controversy into which this topic most obviously fits is the political one about equality . |
| 4 | Hughes argues that part of the reason why the former communist bloc is portrayed as highly polluted is the unrealistic safety standards set by the governments of the states themselves , which are far more stringent than those of the EC and USA . |
| 5 | So impressed was the forward-thinking Murray with the two games against Leeds that he wants to speed up the introduction of a British Cup . |
| 6 | ‘ So Hung is the new T'ang 's man now ? ’ |
| 7 | The vulnerability she had long felt was the open heart she had tried to close as soon as she looked into those powerful eyes . |
| 8 | Daily brushing is the only solution . |
| 9 | There is rather a lot of evidence that what laymen especially valued was the propitiatory function with God of beautiful worship , with splendid chants , vestments woven by the most skilful women , and lavish expenditure of gold on the book covers seen in church and on the altar crosses . |
| 10 | This is not simple mimicry , which would only entail being the same bright colour as a distasteful species . |
| 11 | Better preserved are the Collegiate church of SS . |
| 12 | So enticing is the red gape of a cuckoo nestling that it is not uncommon for ornithologists to see a bird dropping food into the mouth of a baby cuckoo sitting in some other bird 's nest ! |
| 13 | Indeed , so marked was the Judaic orientation of the Celtic Church that it is on record as having been explicitly accused of Judaism , and its adherents of being Jews . |
| 14 | The most important would obviously have been the particular use of a vessel in the pantry or kitchen , on the dining table , or for drinking . |
| 15 | Less known are the inland regions , where single-track roads meander through stark valleys where vines , planted singly and each surrounded by a protective wall of lava rock , struggle to produce the excellent local vintages . |
| 16 | What is less known is the extraordinary diaspora of Goan professionals . |
| 17 | The 2,000 cups and 1,700 plates used , testify to the multitude served , and how greatly appreciated was the excellent fare they provided . |
| 18 | The result of so doing is the sad and mischievous error of seeing little or no moral difference between the painless killing of chickens and that of unwanted children . |
| 19 | There was nothing to suggest that had the evidence been excluded that result would necessarily have been the same . |
| 20 | Guns were only a small part of the Sussex output , and much better known were the ornamental cast-iron firebacks much in demand for the more sophisticated housing of the middling and upper ranks . |
| 21 | The tapered-sided gable-lidded coffin was being challenged by the new single-break flat-lidded shell , though it appears only to have been the middle classes who focused attention on style . |
| 22 | Yet the collapse of the Taurus settlements system project , at massive cost , turns out only to have been the latest in a line . |
| 23 | The hardest worked were the female freedom fighters . |
| 24 | Sally-Anne took the kiss and the last sight of him standing in the parlour in his beautiful evening clothes up to bed with her , and agreed with him — for really the end of the evening and their happy supper together had been the best thing of all . |
| 25 | Carnelian must know special runes to inscribe around the eye-screen and arcane litanies to incant , to make it serve this two-way purpose , which perhaps had been the true purpose of the device in the first place … |
| 26 | I 've met some wonderful people , Bob Hope and Nat King Cole who much have been the nicest person I have ever seen |
| 27 | Perhaps drink was the true explanation of his so far inexplicable behaviour . |
| 28 | I was pleased with this reflection , and so convoluted is the human mind that I ceased to take pride in my lack of pride and was proud that I had found myself capable of it . |
| 29 | One of the conservation groups that I wholeheartedly support is the Environmental Investigation Agency ( ETA ) , a small industrious organisation that gets effective results . |
| 30 | One of the conservation groups that I wholeheartedly support is the Environmental Investigation Agency ( ETA ) , a small industrious organisation that gets effective results . |