Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [adj] [prep] [art] most " in BNC.

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1 No-one could deny that it brought real benefit to Scotland , which built up one of the most advanced and successful electronics sectors in Europe .
2 After the usual cost-trimming exercises have been accomplished the only thing left to do is to sell off some of the most profitable parts to raise cash .
3 Mike Curb , who has built up one of the most successful privately-owned record companies and recently moved his head office to Nashville from Los Angeles , thinks country is well on its way to being a big part of mainstream pop — making a nonsense of the current radio-station categories that still set country apart .
4 A NEW jab available in the autumn could wipe out one of the most common forms of meningitis affecting babies in Britain .
5 It made up one of the most satisfying compositions of all American stations .
6 Dictionaries describe a monograph as an account of a single subject ; by this definition monographs make up one of the most common categories of art publishing .
7 It is , however , the whole — the books , their bindings , the shelving , stucco and paint — which together make up one of the most atmospheric interiors in Prague .
8 The co-leaders receive excellent support from trumpeter Terell Stafford , pianist Ed Simon and bass player Essiet Essiet , who make up one of the most consistently brilliant — but still under-valued — bands on the jazz scene .
9 Separated from Forte dei Marmi by the small Fiumetto channel , Marina di Pietrasanta stretches along one of the most exceptional beaches on the Tuscany coast — three miles of golden sand , up to 200 yards wide in places — simply perfect for relaxing , lazy days in the sun .
10 Brenda Denvir takes up one of the most pressing contemporary issues , that of the multiple roles of assessment in schools , by looking at the intimately-related questions of ‘ what are we assessing ? ’ and , ‘ what are we assessing for ? ’
11 There is , however , another element in the GP 's ideology and with this I want to draw out one of the most powerful of the myths of medical work and relate it back to my earlier theme of profession as mystery .
12 In offering advice to aspiring photographers , Dermot points out one of the most common mistakes made by amateurs .
13 And such observations bring out one of the most arresting features of hypochondria : its almost total independence from any real diseases from which the hypochondriac suffers .
14 So successful had the Minogue Machine become that it was then able to turn down one of the most lucrative deals in pop music history .
15 Shortly after taking over one of the most sensitive posts in the recently formed conservative government of Edouard Balladur , France 's new Minister of Culture , fifty-one year old RPR Gaullist Jacques Toubon said he intended keeping ‘ cultural affairs ’ — a term he prefers to that of ‘ culture ’ — separate from any philosophy of State or political or doctrinal message .
16 In France , the one country that had developed a strong tradition of vernacular opera with its own different aesthetic , it needed only a visit of an Italian company playing a repertoire of opere buffe to spark off one of the most celebrated of musical civil wars , the querelle des bouffons , a war which was renewed a quarter of a century later when the pro-Italian faction set up Piccinni in rivalry with the now gallicized Gluck .
17 The very specimens to which Gould refers so casually in his letter , particularly those which came to be known as ‘ Darwin 's finches ’ , were to spark off one of the most controversial theories of all time .
18 It might be better to seal off some of the most polluted land — like America 's vast military estates — from the public and leave it as new wildernesses .
19 In the early 1960s Dr Beeching , the chairman of the railways , had cut out some of the most unprofitable rail lines and the fear was that I would do the same .
20 Has he signed up one of the most formidable Arabs to ride for his expanding pro team ?
21 It had only just come to be important before the ‘ unnatural ’ town of the industrial revolution conjured up some of the most dramatic and ‘ romanticized ’ of contrasts .
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