Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [art] [adj] [conj] most " in BNC.
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| 1 | An anonymous reviewer of the book in the Times Literary Supplement declared : ‘ If a student of British politics were to demand some precepts to guide his researches , the compiler would have little difficulty about the first and most significant maxim in the creed . |
| 2 | By the age of 35 he had become the youngest president of the largest and most prominent synagogue in Canada ; brilliantly engineered the merging of all the philanthropic societies of Montreal ( ‘ With a view to obtaining the greatest efficiency with the least possible expense and labour , ’ — surely his own life-principle next to his religious and familial devotions ) ; and placed himself in the forefront of the social and economic battles of the period . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , the money is spent on the strongest and least-vulnerable economic regions at the expense of the weakest and most vulnerable . |
| 4 | The two tasks are interrelated but in this book we separate them and look in this chapter at the first and most difficult task . |
| 5 | But what could be more important than his appointment as chairman of the largest and most prestigious funeral parlour in the city ? |
| 6 | The conscription of manpower into the armed forces and war-related industries deprived agriculture of the strongest and most able element of its workforce at a time when the production process was still relatively unmechanized . |
| 7 | It was a room of modest proportions , all of which seemed to curve comfortably inwards like the lines of a shell towards the central and most prominent feature — a splendid and remarkable cot , wonderfully sumptuous , all frilled and canopied in white lace . |
| 8 | His perennial concern was to reconcile the general principle of democracy with the idea of government and social leadership being safely in the hands of an elite of the best and most enlightened members of society . |
| 9 | Neile 's particular contribution was the provision of the longest and most powerful telescopes that had been produced in England for Ward 's observatory at Wadham , and these were used by Wren in developing his theory of Saturn 's rings . |
| 10 | I was particularly taken by Debra Gillett as the likeable innocent who takes some hard knocks before the night is out , while Danny Webb offers a memorable portrait of the sharpest and most driven of the salesmen , cruelly torn between elation at his own success and a growing awareness of just how grubby the whole operation is . |
| 11 | Then we enter the famous city of Gettysburg , site of the last and most decisive battle of the Civil War . |
| 12 | The object objective in six should be to minimize the loss of that land and to take the land in the l in the lower grade within the best and most versatile , rather than the higher grade . |
| 13 | It is not too much to say that , throughout the last three critical years in China , it is to Dr Morrison that the British public has looked from day to day for the earliest and most accurate intelligence concerning events in which the interests of this country have been so largely involved . ’ |
| 14 | Why is it , I wonder , that when books have things spilt on them it is always bottled sauce or gravy of the thickest and most repellent kind rather than something utterly exquisite and delicious ? ’ |
| 15 | The Stroicim Inchinn , the ancient forbidden art , sorcery of the strongest and most dangerous kind : the power of one mind over another . |
| 16 | Dress underwrites not only class differences but national and racial ones also , and Perkins has harsh words for those who adopt the fashion of other countries : ‘ this one sinne is so common among us , that it hath branded our English people with the blacke mark of the vainest and most newfangled people under heaven ’ ( p. 211 ) . |
| 17 | It is possible a feeling existed that too much attention had been given to development in the western and most populous counties in the District . |
| 18 | Hooley 's gilded years came to an abrupt end in June 1898 , when he himself filed a petition for the first and most sensational of his four bankruptcies . |
| 19 | Thus what the power , wealth , cunning and conspiratorial danger of the Jews really stand for in National Socialism , or what the capitalists represent in International Socialism , is the annihilating phantasy-phallus of the omnipotent father of the earliest and most primitive superego . |
| 20 | He was at least partly associated with the decision to introduce ‘ hard labour ’ into prisons , but far from providing regular , steady discipline and useful work it became drudgery of the hardest and most servile kind , a hated example of the additional pains of imprisonment . |
| 21 | The ’ next steps ’ initiative is making use of the best and most appropriate management practices from all sectors , such as contracting out , recruitment of chief executives from the private sector , performance pay , publication of reports and accounts , customer surveys , trading funds , and financial flexibility to carry money between financial years . |
| 22 | Prior to the introduction of these purpose-built auditory churches , existing Gothic church interiors were adapted for Protestant use by the cheapest and most convenient means possible . |
| 23 | In the late 1060s and 1070s Hildebrand , later Pope Gregory VII ( 1073–85 ) , gave more consistent support to the last and most effective of the Patarine leaders , Erlembald , a noble demagogue ; and Milan became a theatre of war between the pope and the Emperor Henry IV . |
| 24 | The Variscan Front as conventionally plotted forms the leading edge of the next and most northerly major thrust sheet ( S ) . |
| 25 | It connotes the discovery of the world by the first and most direct way open to us , and the discovery of ourselves in our native environment . |
| 26 | Discussion of the best or most accessible vein is strikingly similar to embalmers ' discussions about arterial accessibility . |
| 27 | That 's why Save The Children is marking this seventy fifth birthday year with the biggest and most important fund raising appeal in the organisation 's history . |
| 28 | The team who gave us SOUTH PACIFIC , OKLAHOMA , CAROUSEL , THE SOUND OF MUSIC and THE KING AND I are just some from the legacy of the best and most popular shows of the post-war era . |
| 29 | That Farriery as it is commonly practised is conducted without principle or science , and greatly to the injury of the noblest and most useful of our animals . |
| 30 | Allard had referred to the work of Kupka at the Salon des Indépendants as ‘ post-Cubist fantasies ’ , while at the Section d'Or Vauxcelles singled out as representative of the worst and most outrageous tendencies Duchamp 's Le Roi et la Reine entourés de nus vites . |