Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [prep] the most [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 'll go out for a meal , to a quiet exclusive mirador I know with the most spectacular views across to Cabo de Formentor and then we 'll talk , really talk . ’ |
| 2 | I know of the most intellectual of men and women who are not ‘ earthed ’ and some of the humblest who are . |
| 3 | I remember when I started my training I work with this girl and I said where 'd you come from and she said I come from the most boring town in Britain , I says where Grantham ? , she says yeah , I says is it boring , she says yeah huh , it is |
| 4 | The regard in which chiefs held their jade ornaments is shown by the way they stored them along with prized bird plumage in the elaborately carved wooden treasure boxes which rank among the most outstanding products of Maori art . |
| 5 | Some will frequent the hostels run by caring organisations which range from the most basic wooden bench with newspapers spread around . |
| 6 | You go to the most wonderful places , you STAND in Soweto outside Nelson Mandela 's little house and watch him come home for the first time in 25 years . |
| 7 | It will protect , at the expense of the rest , those people in Wales who live in the most expensive properties . |
| 8 | But do n't you feel uncomfortable , you as a member of the medical profession , do n't you feel uncomfortable if there exists in the wider world a set of rules which would condemn as one of the most heinous crimes that which you regard as the most humane of conduct ? |
| 9 | You 'll find the month stressful , arduous , demanding and difficult — but if you persevere in the most important area of all , you 'll win your worldly battle and have a happy ever after in your emotional life too . |
| 10 | More than physical possession , in which , Proust says , one actually possesses nothing , Marcel seeks from Albertine reassurance concerning his own distinctiveness , his separateness , his individuality , and in Proust 's conception of love , therefore , failure is inevitable , because despite the conventionally unifying language of love , what we seek at the most profound level is not contact with another person , but contact with ourselves . |
| 11 | Many of the skills we acquire on the most mundane level are exactly the same as those that are needed in any high-powered job — the ability to manage people , to organize schedules , make the most of limited resources , to keep calm in a crisis , and to encourage those dependent upon us . |
| 12 | Now we read of the most direct and serious threat of all . |
| 13 | Now we get to the most problematic part of installing most motherboards — wiring it up . |
| 14 | If Mr. Goldsmith would care to accept the invitation — clearly written in the bottom left-hand corner of our charts — to contact us , I would gladly explain to him in detail how we tackle the very complex task of chart production , and in particular how we go to the most extraordinary lengths to try to meet the highest standards of clarity and accuracy demanded by the wide range of our customers — when flying in UK ( not USA ) airspace . |
| 15 | We often defend what we do in the most unusual ways — do you recognize any of these in you ? |
| 16 | At the general level there is indeed already a wide consensus that managing schools in the future will be different — but once we move from the most general to more specific views , there is considerable and very important diversity as to the nature of those changes . |
| 17 | To paraphrase Voltaire 's philosopher , Pangloss , ‘ We live in the most probable of all possible worlds . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Look , if we turn along this path we come to the most celebrated tree in the forest — the Major Oak . |
| 19 | Here in fact we come to the most characteristic and distinctive feature of Barth 's whole approach to theology : his absolute , thoroughgoing christocentrism . |
| 20 | This comment in a recent ILO/UNCTC study of EPZs in the Caribbean is very typical : ‘ In spite of the small number of jobs generated so far , the rate at which EPZs create employment is , however , so high that they rank as the most dynamic agents for job creation compared with other sources of national employment ’ ( Long , 1986 , p.60 ) . |
| 21 | Rather than try to impose large structures on what is happening from the outset , they begin at the most local level , trying to see how participants in interaction handle conversation : how they judge who can speak , and when . |
| 22 | Poetry and prose when they advance into the most mystical regions will depart farther and farther from music . |
| 23 | Will the Minister tell us why the Government insist on making British miners redundant when they work in the most efficient collieries in western Europe ? |
| 24 | Some of them think of the most stupid thing to say do n't they ? |
| 25 | When a human chess player finds himself ahead , the art of the game demands that he win in the most expeditious manner ; some sort of lightning stroke that ends the game rapidly . |