Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the most " in BNC.

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1 These then go out into the environment , are reflected back in a multitude of different ways according to the objects encountered , are picked up by the most amazingly refined hearing organs , matched against an inner mind structure capable of interpreting this data as a full and complete three-dimensional world and used as a major sensory means of perceiving their watery or aerial world .
2 Lighting , heating , ventilation have all been carried out on the most approved modern principles .
3 This evaluation will consider whether the school is now more effectively educating its students , and whether the change has been carried out in the most efficient way .
4 She had been brought up in the most isolated of spots — although , perhaps , because of its very isolation and Granny Tremayne 's aloofness , she had simply known about , but not exactly experienced , communal village life .
5 The gardens are laid out in the most elegant manner and both the paintings and furniture are surprisingly fine .
6 Of course , some sort of pattern can be teased out of the most disordered subject though it may take half a dozen attempts before a pictorial structure emerges ; such an unhurried approach is not always possible for the long distance traveller .
7 Crumbs of advantage , Bénezet had found , may be picked up in the most unexpected places .
8 For in a few days , this same man would be reporting back to the most feared woman in Britain .
9 Erm , so we 've got , resources are always going to be taken out of the most efficient sectors if we , if we use protectionism .
10 The floorboards , the great sweeping staircase , its balustrade and newels , were fashioned out of the most expensive materials .
11 Of course , that sort of thing has a really limited audience and , because we were living in Hawaii , there was nobody there to watch us anyway , so we were coming up with the most insane stuff we could do , basically just to please ourselves !
12 A brisk antipodean , she moved with speed and efficiency , despite being weighed down by the most magnificent chest Amiss could remember ever seeing in real life .
13 " [ The transfer in 1860 ] between the Goldsmiths ' Company and the Corporation was carried through with the most perfect agreement and accord . "
14 The traditionally Muslim peoples of Central Asia accounted for a further 15 per cent ; and the balance was made up for the most part of the larger national groups in Transcaucasia and the Baltic .
15 When the power of the higher civil service declined after 1942 and the state administration became absorbed into the party structure , the running of the economy was handed over to the most powerful monopolists .
16 For this valley was scoured out by the most potent of the Pyrenean glaciers , which was fed from the big valleys to the south , of Gavarnie , Cauterets , Gédre and Baréges , and penetrated beyond the point where Lourdes now stands , shaping the topography as it went .
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