Example sentences of "[coord] most [adj] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although taxation was a common reason for convening representative members , it was by no means the only reason for doing so ; nor was it , in proportion to the time spent on it , the principal or most demanding business of parliament . |
| 2 | ‘ Stateless societies ’ have existed , in which political conflicts and decisions are bound up with kinship relations , or with religious conceptions and rituals , and all or most adult members of society may participate in these activities , without any specialized group of people being able to claim a particular responsibility for carrying them on . |
| 3 | If you are importing , the cheapest and most straightforward methods of settlement are by international payments in currency or sterling , and Midland offers three options : Priority Payments , where speed of funds transfer is of paramount importance ; Mail Payments , where there is less urgency ; and Bankers Drafts , which are particularly appropriate for low priority , low value payments . |
| 4 | First people have to start hiding from themselves , because that is where the hardest and most persistent voice of criticism is coming from . |
| 5 | Outside the castle gates visitors will find one of the finest and most complete circuits of town walls anywhere in Europe — over three quarters of a mile in length with 22 towers and three original gateways . |
| 6 | No ; Charlie was the cruellest and most lethal type of seducer . |
| 7 | Most said they did not find the actual tasks they performed for the dementia sufferer difficult , but two-thirds found one or more of the symptoms of dementia difficult to cope with , and most described feelings of strain . |
| 8 | The result is one of the largest , most detailed , and most accessible studies of land ownership anywhere in the USA . |
| 9 | We are looking at the training arrangements and are anxious to ensure that our future forces receive the best and most relevant forms of training in the most efficient and cost-effective way . |
| 10 | APS can decide the most appropriate and most efficient method of payment , and provide immediate electronic advice of funds received for crediting to an account . |
| 11 | The former has the longest and most consistent record of prosperity . |
| 12 | They date from a period of cataclysmic turmoil , when Palestine was ravaged by war , the Holy City and most sacred shrine of Judaism was destroyed , all records were scattered and people 's memories of events were blurred or modified by more recent occurrences . |
| 13 | Edward was not a great reader but he knew quite well that he was broaching the oldest and most central concern of literature ; he felt appropriately diffident . |
| 14 | That is my first and most powerful memory of separation from my mother , and even though it lasted only a year , those feelings of rejection and insecurity have coloured my life . |
| 15 | This is in practice the most important and most powerful form of control , |
| 16 | Perhaps the longest and most controversial piece of business transacted was the disestablishment of the Hong Kong Branch . |
| 17 | The commonest and most visible indices of field officer performance are negative , as an agency head explained : ‘ An area supervisor will sit there and say , ‘ So and so has let me down again . |
| 18 | Thus Foxton retained its importance as a place of special interest to canal people , and reinforced its reputation by becoming the site for one of the oddest , most technologically ingenious and most spectacular pieces of engineering in the whole canal system . |
| 19 | Boswell finding Johnson ‘ in the kindest and most agreeable frame of mind ’ asked him ‘ explicitly whether it would be improper to publish his letters after his death . |
| 20 | UNICEF has the widest and most varied range of stationery lots of all purpose cards in all sorts of styles , plus handsome stationery sets with designs based on blankets woven by the Navajo Indians . |
| 21 | Mirrors , being the most readily available and most literal source of self-perception — a faculty which is always weak in anorexics — also play an important role in the symbology or symbolism of the disease . |
| 22 | One of the purest and most potent forms of skincare today |
| 23 | Is this not the worst and most pernicious kind of sexism ? |
| 24 | The clearest and most sophisticated expositions of secularisation that I know can be found in Martin ( 1978 ) and Dobbelaere ( 1981 ) . |
| 25 | However , this will be done with a very broad sweep to permit the focus in later chapters to concentrate on what is the essential and most interesting feature of routine policing in Northern Ireland : namely , how societal divisions affect and constrain it . |
| 26 | Finally Brooks of Clapham included a varied and most interesting collection of aviation memorabilia in their sale on September 15 . |
| 27 | Touch is the earliest and most primitive form of communication and is an important form of non-verbal communication throughout life ; it can convey a myriad of positive and negative messages between people . |
| 28 | The most venerable and most formal mode of communication is the diplomatic channel . |
| 29 | Thus even the earliest and most modest collection of phrase structure rules would have been pregnant with new output ; and as the rules became entrenched so too would innovative effort and diagnostic insight become more relaxed and automatic , as words appeared newly combined in well-understood syntactic contexts . |
| 30 | L/Ap — shell length divided by aperture length ( Fig. 22 ) is the simplest , most convenient and most objective measure of shell shape in dog-whelks . |