Example sentences of "that [pron] be the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Darling darling , I feel that I am the luckiest man on earth and I want you to know that I know I am . |
| 2 | I 've persuaded the people who matter that I 'm the best man to work with you to help us clear this up , but I 'm like a football manager , Cameron ; I can be replaced at a moment 's notice and I 'm only as good as the results I get . |
| 3 | And the more obvious it is that I 'm the best , the more convinced they are that under the surface , in some subtler way that only a more discriminating critic would appreciate , they are … |
| 4 | ‘ So , OK , I 'm not saying that I 'm the best commodity dealer in London . |
| 5 | He rings back to inform me that I 'm the rudest person he has ever met . |
| 6 | Although I had thrown a stink-bomb through their letter-box ( I was dared to do so ) and had once pulled the belt off Gertie 's dress when teasing her , I do believe that I was the nearest to being a friend of Jossey 's , than anyone . |
| 7 | I am very proud that I was the highest scorer for Darlington for many years . |
| 8 | I think it was fortunate that I was the eldest . |
| 9 | ‘ Miss Mates said that I was the best and most hard-working girl she had ever had , ’ she answered proudly . |
| 10 | He always wore a gown , he beat boys whenever he thought it necessary , he did not need to assert that his was the best school in Wales , if not Britain . |
| 11 | Dr Robert South emphasized this point when he declared shortly after the Restoration that the Anglican church ‘ glories in nothing more than that she is the truest friend to kings and to kingly government of any Church in the world ’ . |
| 12 | I would say that she is the strongest woman er heroine that we 've read . |
| 13 | When she looked at him through her veil her fears vanished and she thought that she was the luckiest girl in the world . |
| 14 | Hendry , who has now earned over £200,000 during the 1992-93 season despite his relatively poor run of results , added : ‘ When you believe that you 're the best player in the world it 's very depressing when you keep on playing like an idiot . ’ |
| 15 | That you 're the biggest gossip in the Club ? ’ |
| 16 | Andrew relishes the challenge , admitting : ‘ You have to believe that you are the best in your role in the country and I know that Stuart shares that view . |
| 17 | Your superiors tell me that you are the best officer they have . |
| 18 | You might very well say that you were the greatest law lecturer in the world , because people tend to say these things about themselves . |
| 19 | It would be unlikely that you would say that you were the worst law lecturer in the world unless you were . |
| 20 | Helen : Look , that one 's the biggest and that 's the smallest . |
| 21 | She said , ‘ No , that one is the biggest ’ , picking out the tallest one . |
| 22 | What we should do is show that we 're the best union by effectively representing our members , and if others want to join us , then they can , but on our terms . |
| 23 | In the widely read book Human Aggression , the psychoanalyst Anthony Storr draws our attention to the ‘ sombre fact that we are the cruellest and most ruthless species that has ever walked the earth ’ ( 1968 : i ) . |
| 24 | Erm the young ones will remember Nottingham Forest but the ones with any depth I think are well aware that we are the oldest club in the world and that they were very keen to have a look at the ground . |
| 25 | But by the same token we were convinced that we were the best writers there were . |
| 26 | Not that there was the slightest danger of Bob getting into that these days , thank you very much . |
| 27 | provided that there was the fullest consultation between the two bodies in respect of any developments which might occur , and no settlement would be reached without the miners ' consent . |
| 28 | that they 're the biggest |
| 29 | So that they 're the latest prices . |
| 30 | It 's not really up to me to judge that they are the best ever . |