Example sentences of "single most [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The single most expensive item is the late 19th century Italian travertine marble fountain which has three graduated bowls supported by hippocampi . |
| 2 | Overall , however , the single most critical role in the provision of a mental health service to an individual is , or should be , the case manager or care manager , as was discussed more fully in Chapter 6 . |
| 3 | The Red Fort is to Delhi what the Colosseum is to Rome or the Acropolis to Athens : it is the single most famous monument in the city . |
| 4 | It 's often Overlooked but it is probably the single most beneficial part — having a good time . |
| 5 | Research at the University of New Hampshire in the United States shows that the single most effective method of controlling apple scab is to collect and burn all fallen leaves from infected trees in autumn . |
| 6 | Perhaps it is not generally known that David Farrington 's research on criminal careers suggests that the single most effective crime prevention policy is nursery education , which is denied to so many children in inner city areas . |
| 7 | The prohibition embodied in this agreement , relating to the use of gas and other weapons , has been the single most effective prohibition of a class of weapon in the laws of war . |
| 8 | Prior to the setting up of the CIVC , the single most effective body responsible for guarding the quality of Champagne today , a decree was passed on 28 September 1935 creating an inter-professional organisation called the Commission Spéciale de la Champagne , which soon became known as the Commission de Châlons because its meetings were held in the Prefecture ( the administrative centre ) at Châlons-sur-Marne . |
| 9 | Corporate entertaining was considered the single most effective marketing technique by 14 percent of businesses . |
| 10 | The single most useful measure for preventing Type 2 diabetes in the industrialised nations would be a reduction in energy intake with a consequent reduction in the prevalence of obesity , hyperlipidaemia , glucose intolerance and possibly hypertension . |
| 11 | Even today , the spreadsheet is probably the single most useful piece of computer software for technical and business users . |
| 12 | While urine testing remains the single most useful screening test for diabetes and the adequacy of its management , blood testing in addition provides definitive information and avoids the pitfall of a high renal threshold not uncommon in older patients , or the problem of not having a urine specimen immediately available . |
| 13 | My own choice for the single most influential factor would be the decision of the Hungarian Government to subordinate its very clear obligations under an agreement with the GDR to its general duty under the Helsinki Final Act of 1975 — a decision which blew a hole in the sealed frontiers of the GDR , and relegated to the past the comfortable slogans of the last three decades . |
| 14 | It is paradoxical that the single most successful job strategy is the least active and the most difficult to prove ( Callender , 1989 ) . |
| 15 | Method b ) home produced mailing lists , which was CPRE 's single most successful recruitment method between January and June 1992 , did not really get off the ground . |
| 16 | Method b ) home produced mailing lists , which was CPRE 's single most successful recruitment method between January and June 1992 , did not really get off the ground . |
| 17 | The result is the single most comprehensive account of the early days at Dovercourt . |
| 18 | To see the leader enjoying God can be the single most helpful factor for a congregation to grow in this area . |
| 19 | The decline of organized networks around the turn of the century was the single most striking change in patterns of cattle theft during the British period . |
| 20 | It is clear that enhanced staffing proved to be the single most potent strategy in the Programme , though it was not without its problems , and the potential of some PNP appointments was frustrated by attitudes and decisions at the school level . |
| 21 | Nearly 1,000 of the world 's 9,700 bird species are threatened with extinction , with the destruction of habitats being regarded as the single most serious threat to their survival ; 43 per cent of the threatened birds live in tropical forests , for example . |
| 22 | Certainly this is the single most crucial event in what we know of Jesus 's public career prior to his triumphal entry into Jerusalem ; and Christian tradition reinforces John 's importance to the story . |
| 23 | Figure 3.1 gives support to the view that ‘ Perhaps the single most distinguishing characteristic of the Japanese wage structure is the effect of firm size on wages ’ ( Hashimoto 1979 p.1098 ) . |
| 24 | The strength of the National Rifle Association , widely acknowledged as America 's single most powerful lobby , reflects not integrity or quality of message , but an awesome logistical capability backed up by lots and lots of money . |
| 25 | With their absorption of the vicomté of Béarn through marriage and inheritance in 1290 , the counts of Foix became the single most powerful house in the south-west . |
| 26 | The Jews provide us with the single most illuminating incident of the episcopate of Avitus . |
| 27 | The single most distinctive feature of the English sentencing system is the breadth of discretion that is conferred on sentencers at all levels within the system . |
| 28 | Probably the single most raised criticism of PageMaker in its earlier versions was that it did not automatically flow text from column to column or page to page . |
| 29 | The single most contentious issue contained in Project 2000 is the cessation of preparation of new enrolled nurses . |
| 30 | According to the report on the South West Edinburgh Plan the construction of houses at this location has proved to be the single most contentious issue . |