Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But good planning and advance preparation are the best way to ensure the move is as efficient and trouble-free as possible . |
| 2 | This trend was partially reversed in the years after 1885 because many officials felt that the prison regime was too lenient and that flogging was the only effective deterrent to crime . |
| 3 | The most striking instance was the 1976 Soweto uprising which was sparked off by secondary school pupils ' opposition to the authorities ' insistence that they learn certain subjects in Afrikaans , viewed by most black people as the language of the oppressor . |
| 4 | Often that money is the best investment a company can make . |
| 5 | If that decision is the right one , then the spirit can progress to the next lesson ; if the person gives in to temptation , then the spirit has to be faced with that choice again and again ( either later in that same life or perhaps in a future one ) until the right decision is reached . |
| 6 | That decision was the second major controversy of Hunt 's extraordinary year : this time not just Ferrari but many others felt that the race had been stopped to give Hunt time to repair his car , an argument given plausibility by the fact that Lauda had made his way out of the trouble and was clearly leading the race when it stopped . |
| 7 | I love to play Shadows and Ventures instrumental music , and , as you know , rhythmic and melodic expertise is the absolute essence of this type of playing . |
| 8 | Low tide is the best time to see birds from a boat — and low tide , especially the very low tide of early spring , is the best time to get stuck on a sandbank ! |
| 9 | The historic award was the first fatal accident claim to be started after the MoD lost its immunity from law suits in 1987 . |
| 10 | In some organisations , like government for instance , pre-meeting lobbying is the expected norm . |
| 11 | While believing that few teachers were intentionally racist , and while not accepting that racism was the sole cause of West Indian underachievement , the committee concluded that unintentional racism ( in the sense of stereotyped , negative or patronising views of West Indian children ) was widespread and did influence children 's performance . |
| 12 | It is believed the open-entry course is the first of its kind in Northern Ireland . |
| 13 | It is clear that the main , though not only , point of reference for the professional course is the external profession or occupation which absorbs the majority of its graduates . |
| 14 | Another possible measure was the average number of citations within the citation period . |
| 15 | The fact that a storm may show up the poor condition of a flat roof does not signify that storm was the proximate cause of damage . |
| 16 | That Forster and the local Nazis knew as much is evidenced by the fact that the 1935 election was the dirtiest and most dubious of the Danzig NSDAP 's victories . |
| 17 | For the twentieth-century facts were that they were a small , oppressed , poor and exploited people , in thrall to the then all-mighty English , and their sole singularity was the Welsh language and only a quarter of them spoke that . |
| 18 | Or that avocado is the only fat-containing fruit and that when you order it with an oily dressing , or with prawns in mayonnaise dressing , you are ordering one of the most fattening first courses of all ? |
| 19 | Yes I do n't agree with the poor safety record , in in in my view and I think it 's supported by fact that rail is the safest way to travel anywhere any time . |
| 20 | Freud notes that mose is the Egyptian word for child . |
| 21 | This at once indicates that hydrogen is the dominant constituent of the whole of Jupiter . |
| 22 | Nor is there reason to suppose that teaching is the only occupation ( though it may well be the most important numerically ) for which a group of related studies including this one , is an indispensable foundation . |
| 23 | The triple shell was the traditional coffin for the burial vault and brick-lined grave . |
| 24 | ATrotskyist ‘ dur ’ of the old school , Healy 's finest hour was the Socialist Labour League , into which he recruited some of the best British communists disillusioned with the Soviet Union after Hungary . |
| 25 | if the questions are read out , the time for each response is the same for all and can be predetermined |
| 26 | The reasons in each case are the same : the sheer weight of human expansion and overpopulation . |
| 27 | The optimum dose individual for each case is the smallest amount needed for a gentle but certain remedial effect . |
| 28 | The answer in each case is the Holy Spirit . |
| 29 | The political response is the necessary and inevitable accompaniment to the metaphysical dilemma . |
| 30 | Assistant bar manager Sarah , 21 , said : ‘ I was always taught that honesty is the best policy . ’ |