Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] be the most [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fighting , which began in July , was reported to have been the most serious since the two sides signed a peace accord in May 1991 [ see p. 38180 ] , and was apparently triggered by the harassment of the local population by armed UNITA militants . |
| 2 | That general attitude of the South 's is said to have been the most striking impression retained by Ripa di Meana , the EC environment commissioner , from talks during his first year in office ( 1989 ) with Third World ministers and officials . |
| 3 | Franklin Roosevelt , generally agreed to have been the most successful of modern presidents , had , by contrast , no national legislative experience and had held only very junior office in Woodrow Wilson 's administration . |
| 4 | The campaign was generally agreed to have been the most open in the 25 years of Suharto 's " New Order " , but the discussion of topics deemed harmful to national unity was officially banned . |
| 5 | But where the muscles had started to waste was the most important part , and so I asked Miss Sowerby for another square of cloth to reinforce the heat over the ankle . |