Example sentences of "[art] most [adj] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To own land was to possess , not only a symbol of status , but also the most prized source of wealth and power . |
| 2 | It is also the language of some of the most influential works of philosophy , psychology , sociology and other disciplines which have helped to shape the modern world ; and it is the medium of a rich variety of literary works , ancient and modern . |
| 3 | The most influential voice of support for the Scottish Equitable board 's proposal will come form the independent actuary . |
| 4 | Two volumes of collected essays by Clement Greenberg document the critic 's emergence as the most influential champion of modernism during its American ascendance after World War II : volume 3 of The Collected Essays and Criticism is titled Affirmations and Refusals , 1950–56 , volume 4 Modernism with a Vengeance , 1957–1969 ( each £23.95 , $29.95 ) . |
| 5 | This was despite the fact that probably the most influential piece of evidence they received during the three years they sat , the Church of England Moral Welfare Council 's ( CEMWC ) updated report , Sexual Offenders and Social Punishment , recommended a universal age of consent of 17 . |
| 6 | One of the most influential types of power is called expert power . |
| 7 | And the most influential sociologist of culture is , without parallel , Pierre Bourdieu . |
| 8 | Amidst the highly sophisticated medical research of the Nineties , new interest is being shown in one of the most ancient forms of healing . |
| 9 | Throwing money at a problem is the most ineffective form of management . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It is surely one of the most cruel twists of fate that a man who has demonstrated such commitment , as well as compassion to overcome so many other problems during his life — and indeed to have helped so many others to have done the same — that he should have become a victim of medical science . |
| 12 | Indeed , so profound and all-pervading is the modern resentment of authority , restraint and control in all its forms that even types of protest which seem to be motivated by the highest ideals of civilized behaviour and the most tender manifestations of conscience can be shown to originate in it . |
| 13 | The alternative to keeping quiet about these problems is , of course , to deny their very existence , and the prize for the most successful campaign of VD eradication , or alternatively the rarest piece of dissembling , must go to Communist China which claims to have got rid of syphilis in the ten years after 1950 . |
| 14 | In multimedia systems , the most successful type of interface today is known as the Graphical User Interface ( GUI ) . |
| 15 | A king who drew scholars to his court from afar , surrounded himself with them , sought their help in formulating his edicts , used them as his agents and publicists , was following the example of the most successful rulers of antiquity . |
| 16 | One of the most successful machine-guns of World War I was the American designed , air-cooled , drum-fed Lewis . |
| 17 | When a church is in her infancy there will be the most visible signs of growth , as with a child . |
| 18 | Their fondness for congregating in a Tokyo park on Sundays makes them the most visible target of discrimination . |
| 19 | Gesualdo , after publishing four books of not particularly individual madrigals in the Rore-Wert tradition ( 1594–6 ) , brought out two more in 1611 in which chromatic alteration simultaneously in several parts produces the most extraordinary effects of dislocation ( often alternating with very commonplace diatonic passages ) . |
| 20 | But just as she was burying her head beneath the blanket in utter dejection Ella came to bed , and she passed on the most extraordinary piece of news . |
| 21 | Perhaps the most extraordinary examples of animal camouflage are those in which the animals concerned have evolved into mimics of specific details in their backgrounds . |
| 22 | The most extraordinary example of death-feigning in the entire animal world is undoubtedly that shown by the West Indian wood snakes . |
| 23 | Primary schools are pioneering the most far-reaching shake-up of education in living memory . |
| 24 | Density might have remained the most accepted form of classification but for three developments in the 1970s which gave a great impetus to the classification of rural populations into different typologies or groupings : |
| 25 | Critics of the most recent studies of compound 1080 say that they prove only that the chemical is lethal to coyotes — not that it can prevent or significantly decrease predation of flocks . |
| 26 | First , one of the most important conceptual changes brought about by the most recent wave of feminism is the general recognition that housework is work in all the conventional senses , except that it is unpaid . |
| 27 | The most recent wave of informalisation reflects a change in the balances of power between classes , the generations and the sexes . |
| 28 | The most recent wave of community opposition began in the occupied north with the formation of the Lignite Action Group ( LAG ) to oppose mining of lignite in the Moortown/Ardboe area of Co . |
| 29 | The most recent estimates of employment by parliamentary constituency are from the September 1989 census of employment , when there were 25,100 employees in employment in the Leeds , West constituency . |
| 30 | In fact the most recent reconstructions of Viking figures are very carefully based on evidence and are the result of a great deal of lengthy scientific research . |