Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] most [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The feathery and delicate fronds of the ferns make them among the most beautiful of the foliage plants , and they attract a fanatical group of devotees dedicated to growing exotic species in inhospitable cities . |
| 2 | But I have met your brother at long last and Mrs Powers has been regaling me with the most fascinating pieces of village gossip . ’ |
| 3 | They chose us to provide them with the most reliable data network available . |
| 4 | It saw its function not to produce curricular prescriptions but rather ‘ to extend the range of possibilities open to teachers , and to provide them with the most detailed research evidence on which their judgement can be exercised ’ . |
| 5 | Equally , large European Community ( EC ) grants had been attracted to Portugal which frequently lacked the infrastructure or administrative machinery necessary to absorb them in the most productive manner . |
| 6 | And you would miss Carn Mor Dearg which , after the relentless pull to climb on to its broad back , rewards you with the most fabulous views , and an easy walk to its summit . |
| 7 | We guarantee to provide you with the most authoritative , reliable and up-to-date information at the best value for money , and there are never any hidden extras . |
| 8 | Bede says that he was in exile for the purposes of study and he subsequently described him as a most learned man ( HE V , 12 ) . |
| 9 | In a famous description of Basil III , the Imperial Ambassador Sigismund von Herberstein described him as the most despotic sovereign on earth . |
| 10 | Friends remarked that it was a measure of Branson 's single-minded approach to conversation that you could be regaling him with the most scandalous piece of tittle-tattle in London and he would turn on his heel and walk away , leaving you talking to thin air , while he made yet another telephone call about business . |
| 11 | Patrick Devlin regarded him as the most effective speaker of his time : |
| 12 | He said the care of the staff at Ipswich Hospital and Denise helped him through the most difficult time of his life . |
| 13 | He trusted him on India , but also used him on the most sensitive domestic issues . |
| 14 | She said that she had ‘ accidentally brushed against one of the four girls who were standing on the pavement ’ , whereupon ‘ all four caught hold of her , and beat her in a most savage manner , using fearful language ’ and left her on the pound bleeding profusely from the nose and mouth . |
| 15 | The intervening years have seen the chip gradually replacing the cathode ray to provide us with the most pervasive and persuasive form of global mass communication . |
| 16 | The strings provide us with the most expressive and appealing medium ( with perhaps the exception of the human voice ) that exists in the whole range of music . |
| 17 | The next task is to tackle them in the most sensible way . |
| 18 | I stress that we have made them in the most constructive vein possible . |
| 19 | The rage incited her to the most positive and extreme action . |
| 20 | His Italian blood attracted him to the most powerful Latins in America , and nobody who knew about his Mafioso connections messed with him . |
| 21 | ‘ And after all he 's done it for the most altruistic of reasons-unlike Bill 's quarry . ’ |
| 22 | And it 's how you put that point across , if you put it across and if the body language you use when you put it across and do you know what makes the biggest different the biggest difference about how you put it across the most important factor about how you put it across and what you 're trying to do ? |
| 23 | The skill of the marketing manager therefore lies in understanding how the four categories of the Marketing Mix interact , and in being able to combine them in the most cost-effective manner such that the company 's marketing objectives are satisfactorily achieved . |
| 24 | There is unfortunately no miracle cure for leg ulcers around the corner ; community staff must be prepared to handle them in the most efficient and effective manner possible . |
| 25 | The proprietor must have thought that they were lovers because he showed them to the most secluded table in the place , talking all the while in rapid French , which she could n't understand at all , but which Piers had no trouble in comprehending . |
| 26 | We shall consider Bukharin 's propositions in the light of the above considerations , and examine them at the most abstract level possible . |
| 27 | ‘ Now you are forcing me into the most obvious remark of the week : I only do what I want — within our poor human limits . |
| 28 | She , after all , had been left holding up the universe over the parents , and in all probability , whatever strict injunctions he issued now , she would , by the time he rejoined her , have relieved him of the most dreadful of all the duties his office laid on him , and somehow , with sense , sedatives and sturdy , unpretending sympathy , have gone part-way towards reconciling the bereaved to their bereavement . |
| 29 | Here was a person who took a faculty in another university and turned it into the most famous faculty in the land . |
| 30 | At the conference of the Institute of Housing at Harrogate in 1985 , Mr. Banham praised the authority of the city of which I had the privilege to be leader , describing it as the most efficient authority in Britain . |