Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [art] most [adj] things " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the most familiar things is the surface gravity , about 0.91 of that of the Earth . |
| 2 | IT 'S claimed that next to losing a spouse , moving house is one of the most stressful things you 're likely to go through . |
| 3 | ‘ One of the most annoying things about getting kicked out is that I never once got a single warning , ’ he says . |
| 4 | One of the most useful things we can do is to find out from people what they would really like to happen and try to facilitate this . |
| 5 | There is a fine neo-Gothic tiled stove from 1836 , but one of the most impressive things in the room are the fine frames surrounding the Habsburg portraits . |
| 6 | Chopin 's ever-spellbinding cycle is mercilessly tragic — the three low notes at the end of the final Prélude leave no room for optimism — and one of the most impressive things about Dmitry Alexeev 's fine performance is the way in which he keeps intensity and concentration on the boil throughout all of the minor key pieces in the cycle 's latter half . |
| 7 | One of the most flattering things ever said to me was by a teacher who said , ‘ Kinnock , I 'd like to call you lazy but nobody who 's as big a nuisance as you are is lazy . ’ |
| 8 | One of the most encouraging things she has found about being in Riyadh is that the Lord has been very close to her and gives her constant encouragement , when things are hard . |
| 9 | One of the most extraordinary things about the man 's mind was that any check , any set-back , to some sweet hypothesis , far from dismaying him , seemed immediately to prompt some second hypothesis that soon appeared even sweeter than the first . |
| 10 | One of the most disgusting things about this ragbag of a book are Reed 's smug little footnotes . |
| 11 | The differences between quotation and paraphrase can be seen in the following contrasting examples : Quotation " One of the most striking things about detective fiction " , Patricia Craig argues in her critical introduction to English detective stories , " is the ease with which it accommodates all kinds of topical ideologies . " |
| 12 | To a non-linguist from England , one of the most striking things about American or Scots English might well be " that they say 'r' when we do n't " . |
| 13 | I came across one of the most pitiful things I have ever known . |
| 14 | However if this is what the old person wants , one of the most helpful things we can do is to back up their wish for this to happen . |
| 15 | To truly despair is one of the most terrible things in the world , ’ she said severely , and Grainne , listening , thought : well yes , of course . |
| 16 | King , reviled by many , but acknowledged as an expert in the cynical exploitation of the pop world sniped : ‘ I thought when Kylie Minogue did ‘ I Should Be So Lucky , Lucky , Lucky , ’ it was one of the most awful things I have ever heard . |
| 17 | Because I think one of the most worrying things that for the soldiers at the front was will their family be looked after and will their land sort of be alright when they get back |
| 18 | But it turned out to be one of the most marvellous things we ever did . |
| 19 | Erm and this is the reason why I brought this tape recorder , and I was saying to Bernard a moment ago , one of the most embarrassing things that can happen erm when talking to a group like this is when you pressed a button er whether it 's a , a tape recorder a video machine or whatever , you pressed a button full of confidence in all the latest technology and there 's an embarrassing silence . |
| 20 | Still , his love of irony is plain ; it 's one of the most modern things about him . |
| 21 | Surely one of the most curious things ever written about Islay must be by J. Brownlee in a paper " On the Probability that the Distribution of Illegitimacy in the British Isles depends on Survival of Custom from Definite Racial Invasions " ( Man , no 119. 1926 ) in which he says " There are twenty hill forts in Islay and in Jura none ; the corresponding rates of illegitimacy are 15% and 5% respectively . " |
| 22 | Surely one of the most curious things ever written about Islay must be by J. Brownlee in a paper " On the Probability that the Distribution of Illegitimacy in the British Isles depends on Survival of Custom from Definite Racial Invasions " ( Man , no 119. 1926 ) in which he says " There are twenty hill forts in Islay and in Jura none ; the corresponding rates of illegitimacy are 15% and 5% respectively . " |
| 23 | It was one of the most curious things I had ever seen . |
| 24 | ‘ I am sure it must be one of the most frustrating things to have to go through , but we have to maintain standards as a Tour , and that is why it is vital that a player is sure she is capable of meeting the performance requirements before joining us . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ One of the most frustrating things for the police is to see someone they have spent weeks tracking down released on bail and subsequently re-offending . |
| 26 | Then she felt ashamed of the malicious thought , and realised that that was one of the most dangerous things about people like Deana . |
| 27 | ‘ One of the most amazing things about my life is I have the most lovely dreams about all my old friends and the old days . |
| 28 | Probably one of the most horrific things I remember on a cricket field . |
| 29 | Perhaps one of the most surprising things about talking to Russian women now is their underlying optimism and hope . |
| 30 | Yes I must say I , I personally sympathy with that I mean I think that erm , women 's er role is er very much despised and disparaged it should be because if you think about it they 're having the children and bringing them up , well this is one of the most worthwhile things to do |