Example sentences of "had [adv] be the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naylor Massingham had not been the easiest of people to deal with when he 'd been in her home ; how would she fare now that she was , so to speak , on his territory ? |
| 2 | Until I arrived , he had always been the smallest person in the country ( he was about ten metres tall ) . |
| 3 | What had once been the greatest and most prosperous of Elf realms had effectively ceased to be . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The woman had also been the nearest she could get to contrite about what had happened in her apartment . |
| 6 | It had n't been the greatest operation anyway , because it seemed that Jenner and Professor Liawski had some big argument around ‘ seventy-nine . ’ |
| 7 | It had n't been the best of weekends . |
| 8 | So OK , she had n't been the best dinner companion in the world that evening , but she had n't asked him to take her out , he had asked her . |
| 9 | The situation was different , because the Conservatives had then been the largest party , whereas they were now 26 seats behind the Labour Party . |
| 10 | Japan had previously been the largest single user of the nets , up to 50 km long and intended primarily for catching tuna , squid and pink salmon , but fiercely criticized by environmentalists as " walls of death " which caused widespread unintentional deaths of marine mammals and other sea creatures . |
| 11 | Japan had previously been the largest single user of the nets , which have been criticized as " walls of death " which caused widespread unintentional deaths of dolphins , whales and other sea creatures . |