Example sentences of "[unc] most [adj] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cup of tea must be the world 's most familiar symbol of hospitality and civilisation . |
| 2 | This famous pass , about seven miles [ 11 km ] south-east of Fort Augustus , was , as mentioned earlier , Wade 's most masterly feat of engineering . |
| 3 | In view of the terms in which he was later to express his enthusiasm for Wagner , it is interesting to note what it was that first seriously attracted him : nor the morbid metaphysical-flavoured world of romance , the hypnotic emotional intensity and musical " modernity " of Tristan , representing at the time , the high point of Wagner 's most distinctive line of development ; nor indeed the available parts of the similarly " modern " , but emotionally more robust , Ring ; rather , the musically " reactionary " Meistersinger that deferred to traditional expectations of harmony , tonality and musical organization and depicted through the medium of " healthy " comic opera the successful struggle of artistic genius against stifling Hanslickian convention . |
| 4 | The Tortula-Grimmia association of mosses occurs on wet alkaline substrates ( for example marble outcrops ) ; species of the named genera form deep carpets in which other mosses , lichens and hepatics settle , forming some of Antarctica 's most complex stands of vegetation ( Gimingham and Smith , 1970 ) . |
| 5 | The essentially anthropological basis of Eliot 's most crucial definition of culture is clear in the published book , as Bantock indicates , but the earlier ( 1943 ) version of the first section reveals the intellectual movement even more clearly . |
| 6 | However remote shire halls may be , however bureaucratic town halls are , the local education authority is a school 's most accessible source of support . |
| 7 | It could be , too , that the unusually complex character of Captain Hawkins , an illegitimate son of Peter Simple 's uncle , a man moved by obsessive jealousy , eroded by concealed cowardice and capable of the most intricate plotting against the young hero , has something to do with one of O'Brian 's most impressive studies of character , the officer Lord Clonfert who , in The Mauritius Command , more than once frustrates Aubrey 's plans and perplexes to the point of real suffering the open-minded captain with his extraordinary psychosomatic state . |
| 8 | Iago 's most brilliant inversion of vision is reserved for Othello — to which , indeed , all the other inversions have been preliminary . |
| 9 | The reason why it provides a nesting sanctuary for the kite , Hong Kong 's most spectacular bird of prey , is that it is a high-security site for the army . |
| 10 | A package of unpublished music manuscripts by one of the country 's most eminent composers of brass band music has been rediscovered fifty years after it was written … and as Clare Lafferty reports , its about to have its first performance . |
| 11 | One of the first duties undertaken by Kajiyama was to observe a police operation in one of Tokyo 's most notorious areas of prostitution , on Sept. 20 , which resulted in the arrest of 45 foreign women who were accused of working as prostitutes . |
| 12 | Ross Henderson , from Wilmot in Tasmania , is one of Australia 's most respected exponents of radiesthesia , commonly referred to as ‘ dowsing ’ or ‘ divining ’ . |
| 13 | Hartlepool , in contrast , have found an even keel under Garry Gibson 's unique brand of chairmanship and Alan Murray 's most accomplished brand of management . |
| 14 | Another English spring has damply arrived , and the English have begun another cricket season , reminding themselves yet again that it was they who created the world 's most civilised form of sport . |
| 15 | Walker 's most liberating pictures of femininity are the many watercolours of groups of women sometimes with children gathered by the sea . |
| 16 | She was back at Madame Tussaud 's to see her own likeness unveiled in the world 's most celebrated Hall of Fame . |
| 17 | One of a horse 's most important forms of communication is one we rarely consider . |
| 18 | That would wipe out one of the central government 's most important sources of power : control over foreign-currency earnings . |
| 19 | Townsend 's most important definition of poverty which emphasizes that lack of money leads to in inability to join in fully in social life , producing in exclusion of individuals and social groups from ordinary life , focuses crucially on the role of lack of participation and powerlessness in the social construction of the ‘ poor ’ . |
| 20 | The three charity shops at Skinnergate , Arlington ; Church Street , Shildon ; and Galgate , Barnard Castle , are the hospice 's most important source of funding and staff want to thank all the volunteers who help man them . |
| 21 | Indeed it is surprising that more studies have not been conducted in a field that , whatever else it may be , is surely one of the world 's most remarkable systems of belief . |
| 22 | The camel is without doubt one of the natural world 's most remarkable forms of transport . |
| 23 | Our 20 point plan reveals all about the artist 's most valuable piece of equipment . |
| 24 | Our 20 point plan reveals all about the artist 's most valuable piece of equipment . |
| 25 | ( Above ) The head of Hong Kong 's most handsome bird of prey , the black kite . |
| 26 | Iro 's direct running down the wing always looked the tourists ' most promising mode of attack , and on the stroke of the interval , he muscled past three defenders to give the Kiwis a 10-4 half-time lead . |
| 27 | Television augmented and soon overtook the cinema as the masses ' most popular form of entertainment . |