Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [adv] the most [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Joseph story provided by far the most conspicuous example in Genesis of the outworking of the promise to Abraham that through him and his descendants all the families of the earth would find blessing . |
| 2 | Of course , in a predominantly agrarian economy land constituted by far the most important capital asset . |
| 3 | The Cornish investigations proved by far the most controversial . |
| 4 | Type III foci had by far the most unusual morphology : highly condensed , heavily piled upon one another , and criss crossed at the edges of the focus . |
| 5 | During the nineteenth century the Shorthorn became by far the most popular breed in England and was overwhelmingly dominant in the national herd . |
| 6 | Let us examine the implications of this ; property crime became by far the most common form of crime during the period in which the prison emerged ; therefore forced labour would have become the most common punishment ; forced labour requires incarceration ( people tend not to turn up for it of their own free will ) . |
| 7 | Martyn and Allestry also produced the first ‘ scientific ’ journal , the Philosophical Transactions , edited by Henry Oldenburg [ q.v. ] , which became by far the most important international forum for natural philosophy and eventually the official journal of the Royal Society . |
| 8 | When 80 per cent or more of working-class incomes was spent on food , and most of that on bread , then even in the modernising economy of later eighteenth-century England the state of the corn harvest remained by far the most important determiner of well-being . |