Example sentences of "[prep] [art] most [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | C. P. Snow may not have delineated the cultural divide until 1959 ; but commentators still return to Victorian England for the most potent illustrations of desiccated , materialistic science set against the life of the imagination . |
| 2 | Under the Bill , whipping was to be abolished as a punishment ordered by the courts , being retained only in prisons ( but not in borstals ) as a penalty for the most serious infringements of prison discipline . |
| 3 | Like most Romanians , who were not in a position to exercise any discretion in the matter , the couple had an almost slavish regard for the most commercialized features of capitalist culture . |
| 4 | It should also be pointed out that this is the pattern for the most usual spellings for the other vowel and diphthong sounds : |
| 5 | The failure to conclude the Uruguay Round had injected uncertainty into the international trade system , causing trade disputes to resurface , and had led to the " impression that there is one law for the most powerful members of GATT and quite another for all the rest " . |
| 6 | The stalemate among the 39 participating countries was gradually broken in the late 1980s as relations between the superpowers improved [ for the most recent developments on the negotiations , see pp. 38217 ; R153 ; 38986 ] . |
| 7 | The ASP rule-book asked the judges to look for the most radical manoeuvres in the most critical section of the wave ( that is , nearest the curl ) . |
| 8 | But I do not believe that these trends fundamentally affect my case , for the most radical criticisms of medicine come , not from such illness groups , but from ‘ minorities ’ who have seen medical dominance as reproducing the class relations which have brought about their oppressed status , e. g. radical women 's movements and black urban Americans . |
| 9 | By not considering the results of case management practice and research in greater depth and learning more about the value it has for the most needy clients of the health and welfare system , we are in danger of failing to learn the lessons which others have learned , and of having to re-live their mistakes . |
| 10 | Fruit squash-makers Kia-ora are again backing the week , providing cash prizes for the most deserving playgroups in the PPA awards later in the year . |
| 11 | America Online Inc is challenging Prodigy Services Co , which just announced plans to charge usage fees for the most heavily-used databases on its viewdata service , by cutting prices to its own 250,000 subscribers : the company says it deliberately waited until after the Prodigy announcement to disclose its new pricing , hoping to maximise attention for its move and woo subscribers away from the IBM Corp-Sears , Roebuck & Co joint venture ; under its new plan , subscribers will pay $9.95 a month for five hours of access to all its services , a rate that it claims is less than half the price of Prodigy 's new tariff ; extra hours will cost $3.50 each ; at Prodigy , subscribers pay $14.95 a month for unlimited access to many of the features but from July 1 will pay surcharges after spending two hours on widely-used bulletin boards . |
| 12 | FOR OVER 25 YEARS ALITEX HAVE DESIGNED AND BUILT SUPERIOR STRUCTURES FOR THE MOST BEAUTIFUL GARDENS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY . |
| 13 | Before he succeeded Balfour then , Law was not associated with any of the features that were to characterize his party leadership ; his contribution was to use the leadership in the service of all of these causes , to make himself the spokesman for the most spirited sections of the party . |
| 14 | When the Dada brochure , Cabaret Voltaire , was published in June 1916 it was ‘ a catch-all for the most diverse directions in art which at that time seemed to us to constitute ‘ Dada ’ . ’ |
| 15 | But as a consequence , he will now face the sort of brutal attention reserved for the most lauded players in Serie A — the sort of stern treatment Lineker himself encountered and overcame in his successful time in Spain with Barcelona . |
| 16 | They must always be seen to have sufficient room in which to manoeuvre if they are to create a spaciousness for the most difficult changes in épaulement as pose follows pose . |
| 17 | There is a tendency for the most positive attitudes to be held by the primary school teachers , and the least positive by the secondary school teachers . |
| 18 | It multiplied capital punishment for the most wretched categories of offenders . |
| 19 | Poor Andy knew nothing about the fact that his bride was planning to sport shorts for the most important vows of her life . |
| 20 | In France during the most critical years of the Spanish Succession war in 1704–8 and 1712 , one in six of the male population was serving in the army or the militia ; and in the period 1700–63 about two million men were enrolled for military service there ( though some 300,000 of these were foreigners ) . |
| 21 | He found that speakers tended to look most at listeners during the most fluent phases of speech . |
| 22 | But even during the most bitter quarrels of the " social fascist " period , the United Front was proclaimed and , to a limited extent , practised . |
| 23 | Guidelines have been devised by the Network members to govern their conduct during the most common kinds of situations giving rise to contact between Network members . |
| 24 | The outbreak of war naturally marked the end of the collaboration of Picasso and Braque , but the unprecedented closeness of their artistic careers over the preceding years makes it impossible to separate completely the contribution made by each to Cubism during the most vital years of its development . |
| 25 | In which case , international rules on competition policy and direct investment will start to replace trade policy as the most contentious areas of economic relations . |
| 26 | Having made their name as the most mischievous men in pop , their audience watched uneasily as Madness turned down the corners of their mouths . |
| 27 | Liberal pique over what they felt was inadequate consultation and personal rivalry between the leaders of the parties were seen by some as the most potent causes of the rift , but the official reason which the Liberals , the junior partners in the coalition , gave was their objection to the ending of tax deductions for car commuters and the raising of taxes on petrol and diesel fuel . |
| 28 | And all the while the shadow of the Bomb grew longer as the most powerful nations on earth stockpiled enough megatonnes to blow up the world fifty times over . |
| 29 | Clients rated receiving ‘ information about anxiety and stress ’ , and ‘ Being in the group and meeting others with similar problems ’ as the most helpful parts of the treatment package . |
| 30 | The eastern diamondback and the western diamondback are regarded as the most dangerous snakes in North America and are responsible for a number of human fatalities every year . |