Example sentences of "be the best " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am standing to win because I believe I am the best candidate to lead the Labour Party to victory next time but also because it is imperative that we have a contest in which a proper debate can take place , ’ he added . |
| 2 | I , La Carlotta , I am the best opera singer in Paris . |
| 3 | She heard them clinking , and she thought : ‘ I 'm here in these lovely gardens because I am the Best Child in the World . ’ |
| 4 | Campos , who last year won the Three-Quarter Ton Cup in the Farr-designed Lone , would like to be skipper , but is realistic : ‘ I will be the skipper if I feel I am the best . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ But the King says I am the best horseman in his army . |
| 6 | The women 's game is much more open today and Gabriela Sabatini has been the best player on the women 's tour this year . |
| 7 | Hard left pamphlet ‘ You all sound so unhappy ; it 's been the best week of my life . ’ |
| 8 | The Prince and Princess 's grandmothers have been the best of friends for most of their lives . |
| 9 | ‘ In England we had Morris dancing , mostly knee down , and our ballet dancers have always been the best for quick , precise footwork . |
| 10 | ‘ I think Neville Southall has been the best goalkeeper in England for a long time , but now he has been joined by others like David Seaman , Tony Coton and Chris Woods . |
| 11 | IT HAS not been the best of weeks for managers , a thought with which Graham Souness might agree . |
| 12 | I decided to give her Arsenicum Album LM1 in a 100ml bottle and within 1 month she was feeling much better , her period had been the best she could remember and she 'd even been out to a party . |
| 13 | Nicholson especially won some excellent notices although Fonda reckoned that Dennis Hopper 's performance had been the best of the three . |
| 14 | He could have been the best footballer in the world if he 'd have bothered turning up and stuff , ’ Gedge told Sounds . |
| 15 | It 's not been the best of years so far for Jimmy White , who was dubbed the bridesmaid of snooker after losing his fourth world championship final in May . |
| 16 | Barry has always been the best man for the job and we 're going to continue our partnership . ’ |
| 17 | There was some good news , too : the harvest had been the best for over thirty years , and after much anxious waiting there was a victory to celebrate from the war front — Nelson had trounced the French fleet at the Battle of the Nile . |
| 18 | It 's been the best ten years St Mary 's ever had … you being here . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It had n't been the best of weekends . |
| 21 | ‘ It should have been the best holiday of our lives but it was terrible , ’ said Deborah , also 24 . |
| 22 | Even had it been the best apple tree anyone could knit I can not see that I would hang swing tickets on it ( so badly coloured with felt tip pen that the Infant 's class would be ashamed of the work ! ) . |
| 23 | It was a big house , at least four good bedrooms , and the garden must have been the best part of two acres . |
| 24 | The documentation for these drawings has always been the best of any British collection of its type , and after the paring away of the greatest country house collection of drawings Chatsworth 's by the two Christie 's sales of the 1980s , Holkham remained the most important extant . |
| 25 | ‘ Hendrique was reputed to have been the best student ever to graduate from Balashikha . |
| 26 | ‘ He was the worst leader of what should have been the best cause in the world . ’ |
| 27 | They 've hardly been the best parents in the world , have they ? |
| 28 | With Senator McCarthy 's campaign against treason in the State Department having just got under way this may hardly have been the best time for dispassionate analysis although , if it is not too academic a point , one can not help comparing these propositions with an earlier assessment ( 13 October 1948 ) . |
| 29 | Those nerve-racking hours , with the armies drawn up in battle array in sight of each other , can hardly have been the best of times for a calm discussion of the problem of the succession . |
| 30 | The animal had been plunging towards the shelter of a riverside bamboo grove when he fired and it had probably been the best shot of his life . |