Example sentences of "[vb infin] most [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two young girls , I predicted , would not find such changes so difficult to accommodate , but I did all I could to see that Mrs Clements suffered the least adjustments , to the extent that I undertook for myself a number of duties which you may consider most broad-minded of a butler to do . |
| 2 | ‘ The cruelty to which animals do you consider most obscene ? ’ |
| 3 | You can buy most grooming items in compact travel sizes — look at the Braun and Philips ranges of shavers , hairdryers and hair stylers . |
| 4 | People did n't even know most other people 's names let alone their dogs ' . |
| 5 | And I do not know of any other argument , not relying on PC k , which Nozick could use to show that we do not know we are not brains in a vat without showing that we do not know most other things either . |
| 6 | In the discussion which follows we shall draw a simplistic distinction between spoken and written language which takes highly literate written language as the norm of written language , and the speech of those who have not spent many years exposed to written language ( a set which will include most young undergraduate students ) as the norm for spoken language . |
| 7 | As Burton loved to live in opposition — it made him feel most alive and it could be argued that he lived in serious opposition to his own body for long stretches of his life — it is interesting to speculate whether the homosexual network gave yet another spin to his heterosexuality . |
| 8 | Stand at the back , go backstage , go out for a walk , do whatever makes you feel most relaxed . ’ |
| 9 | It will feel most peculiar at first but , after a couple of weeks , it will feel perfectly normal and your old way will then feel strange . |
| 10 | With whom did I feel most open and confident about expressing myself in words ? |
| 11 | Most of you , however , will already have a good idea of where you would feel most secure . |
| 12 | The living topsoil is seldom more than six inches deep ; if one digs or ploughs deeper , one inevitably puts subsoil on the surface and buries the active flora and fauna below the level where they can thrive and do most good . |
| 13 | On whom he did inflict most grieuous punishment . |
| 14 | However , it was then thought that additional family payments could remove most married women from the labour market , thus protecting men 's jobs and strengthening the traditional family . |
| 15 | Fax modem cards were reviewed in the ‘ Faxing without Paper ’ article in September 's Issue ( Vol 1 Issue 4 ) and then Teleputer can use most common FAX software , including WINFAX and BITFAX . |
| 16 | Our approach , therefore , focuses on essential themes in multimedia information , providing an overview of the technological environment from which it is emerging and an assessment of the key areas of application in which multi-media may become most influential . |
| 17 | If ecstatic union with the other entails a liberating loss of inhibition and even loss of the self , by the very same token , it is then that desire may become most unaware of the plight of the other , especially when , as here , it is powerfully mediated through the pastoral genre . |
| 18 | Very soon the scenery will become most dramatic . |
| 19 | It does not touch most poor blacks ' lives . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , a quiz buff at Shildon 's fair to maudlin match on Saturday asked which British club can claim most international caps won by players while still at the club ? |
| 21 | In their grander moments the Welsh would claim most ancient associations — the luminous legendary King Arthur — and boast they had supplied England with its greatest monarchs — out of Owen Tudor — Henry VII , Henry VIII , Elizabeth I. ‘ They are an alien race , ’ wrote Burton , ‘ and nobody knows where they came from or what they are . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ At least you 'll look most elegant while acting as hostess in the office today . |
| 23 | We think you 'll agree that this cake really does look most authentic ! |
| 24 | This is when it can look most puzzling and most comical to the ignorant . |
| 25 | Under the ‘ Keep Sunday Special ’ option , which would keep most big shops shut , this would fall to just 5% . |
| 26 | It can pretend it is using colour film from 50 to 400 ASA , which will keep most happy snappers occupied , but does n't really lend itself to low-light photography or sports . |
| 27 | It will fit most traditional downpipe grates on houses built between 1900 and 1982 . |
| 28 | But even treated as an inherently comic ‘ found object ’ , even taking the piss out of himself , it 's clear that Brando could still blow most contemporary actors off the screen . |
| 29 | The law did not specify which court should try most specific offences . |
| 30 | This will take most readily-available food . |