Example sentences of "[adv prt] the most " in BNC.
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| 1 | In what could be the most crucial casting decision of his career , Stone settled on Val Kilmer to take on the most sought-after male lead role in recent years . |
| 2 | Working at the top end of the market as he did , Roche was taking on the most difficult assignments , but they were also the most remunerative and had the greatest publicity value . |
| 3 | But this is exactly the sort of attitude that has forced RAF pilots to take on the most terrifying assignments and attack runways and hardened aircraft shelters ( built with British expertise ) , to be fired on by Soviet missiles or Soviet antiaircraft guns , or face the threat of German-developed chemical warfare or French Exocet missiles . |
| 4 | From then on the most prominent change leading to the human brain was simply an increase in the area of the sheet of cells which forms the neocortex or neopallium . |
| 5 | Magnus Magnusson , TV presenter , president of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds , chair of the Ancient Monuments Board for Scotland and currently chair of the Nature Conservancy Council for Scotland , will be taking on the most demanding environmental job in Scotland as the first chair of the new agency . |
| 6 | ‘ If the thought of other women being able to do this , to touch you , hold you , lie with you , brings on the most awful pain inside , makes me feel sick and ill , then I have no intention of letting you out of my sight . |
| 7 | Note the selection headings for these areas and write down the most important features of the case that occur in each of these sections in a layout that will make the next step easy for you . |
| 8 | This changes , subtly , the colours and tones down the most garish of shades . |
| 9 | Last March a small flock of advanced to expert skiers were herded down the most terrifying terrain in Chamonix by Nigel Shepherd . |
| 10 | While watching the slides subjects wrote down the most distinctive feature of each slide . |
| 11 | To tackle this , Mr Lamont brought in the most stringent proposals since Lord Howe under Baroness Thatcher in the early 1980s . |
| 12 | Agrarian reform was put into practice in the second half of the 1960s with the passing of a law , which made it possible to expropriate estates of over 80 hectares and they began by taking over the most economically inefficient . |
| 13 | Nor have official bodies been able to ward off the most sinister threat . |
| 14 | It 's fairly boring , especially when JJ announces that he 's the CHAMPION , showing off the most ginormous conker ever , polished and shining like his silly face . |
| 15 | Colour and foliage can set off the most ordinary-looking house ‘ whereas a poorly kept garden with no trees or shrubs seems to place a dead hand on the house itself . |
| 16 | THEY thought it was all over at the BBC 21 years ago when they switched off the most famous football commentating voice of all , Kenneth Wolstenholme . |
| 17 | In this context Japan 's overwhelming dependence on imported oil set off the most severe economic recession since World War II and GNP actually fell by 1 per cent in 1974 after growing at an average rate of nearly 10 per cent in the previous six years . |
| 18 | It was the waste of national resources and , to a lesser extent , the amount of human suffering in rural Spain , that in the years 1766–73 set off the most remarkable attempt at agrarian reform that Spain was to know until the days of the Second Republic . |
| 19 | But I do know , in general terms , how Fagg manipulates the provender committee and Chatterton creams off the most expensive wines from the cellar to add to the committee 's disposable income . ’ |
| 20 | This undignified arrival at the bathing spot started off the most dreadful family squabble and several minutes were to elapse before order was restored . |
| 21 | Thompsons also stock a large range of gift wrap and stationery to cover most businesses , and right now they are showing off the most unusual range of candles which are just right for that special occasion . |
| 22 | Wilko and out : British No 2 Chris Wilkinson pulled off the most spectacular win of his career today as he put fourth seed Goran Ivanisevic out of the Stella Artois Championships at Queen 's Club . |
| 23 | Most hotels and similar venues have tracking spotlights and if you have plenty of set-up time , you should be able to cheer up the most basic hotel meeting room . |
| 24 | RIXI MARKUS , who has died aged 81 , was the first woman in the world to become a bridge grandmaster , and with the late Fritzi Gordon made up the most formidable women 's bridge partnership in the world . |
| 25 | Until a moment of madness by Bruce , the United stand-in captain , Alex Ferguson 's side appeared likely to open up the most significant lead in this topsy turvy title race . |
| 26 | One nineteenth century account of him reads : ‘ Strong minded but very illiterate … he made all his calculations by the strength of his memory , and was equally at a loss to explain what he had conceived to any other person , and from being lowly educated he had no means of conveying to paper his designs , yet would cast up the most intricate accounts in his head without difficulty or error . ’ |
| 27 | Built in 1864 — 71 , Thoresby was one of the famous Nottinghamshire ‘ Dukeries ’ that 100 years ago made up the most illustrious group of houses in Britain . |
| 28 | Apart from that , life had taught her to pry because sometimes doing so turned up the most surprising things . |
| 29 | Under this , the EPA is responsible for cleaning up the most contaminated sites and then recovering the cost from the bodies held responsible for the contamination . |
| 30 | None of this suggested that the English would go forward to build up the most wide-ranging empire that the world had ever seen , and even if Hakluyt had added that the English had made some attempts to settle in North America and had organized themselves for trade in the East Indies he would not have much altered the case . |