Example sentences of "most [adv] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While 5.5mm is the most widely adopted diameter for arrows , it is by no means the only thickness . |
| 2 | This leads us to the most widely adopted material for kite sails , Ripstop Nylon |
| 3 | It developed the direct-action methods of earlier campaigns into new and more dramatic forms and it took up an issue which was the central and most widely felt grievance of Derry Catholics — housing . |
| 4 | Abraham de Wicquefort , when in 1681 he published the best-known and most widely read work on diplomacy produced anywhere in early modern Europe , could still speak of the formal witnessing of a royal oath to keep a treaty of peace or alliance as one of the obvious reasons for the sending of an extraordinary ambassador . |
| 5 | The lecture he gave and the responses it provoked form perhaps the most widely read debate in jurisprudence in Britain in the period since the Second World War . |
| 6 | And Charlie was probably the most highly paid chauffeur in London . |
| 7 | Commercial tools and technology manager Nancy Colwell claimed that systems management tools from a company with longevity such as CA was the most highly requested demand from Sun users , while Sun president Scott McNealy claimed that Sun would have up to 10,000 commercial servers out in the field by the end of the year . |
| 8 | This was not a problem which afflicted journalists who were the most carelessly dressed tribe of professionals he had come across . |
| 9 | The county is 100 miles long and my constituency is the most sparsely populated area of Cornwall . |
| 10 | A decade after the end of the first post-war period in Britain ( that is , during the sharp oil price rise mentioned above ) social mobility was characterized both by heightening opportunities of rising socially , as well as increased risks of being caught in a downward spiral — particularly for those of working-class origin , who are among those who most easily fall prey to recruitment into the underclass . |
| 11 | ‘ Sellafield has made the Irish Sea the most radioactively contaminated stretch of water in the world . |
| 12 | Davie 's tribute applies still more precisely to his own writing in Under Briggflatts , a book whose perspicacity , range of learning and pitiless eye for cant can leave little doubt which modern critic most richly deserves comparison with Samuel Johnson . |
| 13 | In doing so he reveals the most frequently denied value of humour a defence against the world 's cruel pressures . |
| 14 | We , however , found glutathione S-transferase α to be the most frequently expressed form of glutathione S-transferase in colon carcinomas . |
| 15 | Surveys for the Crowther Committee showed that illness was the most frequently stated reason for default , followed closely by unemployment . |
| 16 | Mothers were the single most frequently cited source of help ( Bradshaw and Holmes , 1989 ) . |
| 17 | The most frequently mentioned aspect of change was that the consciousness of the cost of treatment now had a bearing on decision making . |
| 18 | A medallion design can be anything based around a dominant central form , and is arguably the most frequently encountered scheme in rugs from every producing country , with the exception of the Soviet Union and Afghanistan . |
| 19 | The most frequently occurring vowel in English is , which is always associated with weak syllables . |
| 20 | Peters et al also reported that glutathione S-transferase π is the most frequently identified form of glutathione S-transferase in normal colon . |
| 21 | SPONSORSHIP has become the most hotly debated subject in television . |
| 22 | The most hotly debated point concerning Tatarstan 's relationship with Russia described Tatarstan as a sovereign state , a subject of international law , associated with the Russian Federation — Russia — on the basis of a treaty on the mutual delegation of powers . |
| 23 | After Received Pronunciation , ( RP ) , General American is the most fully described accent of English . |
| 24 | Here , on a little promontory , is the village school , surely the most beautifully situated building in Britain for learning the three Rs . |
| 25 | The need for general , as opposed to financial guidance was the next most commonly cited request for support ( 34% ) . |
| 26 | Along with the crime novel , which we shall consider shortly , the detective novel is perhaps the most commonly written form of crime fiction today . |
| 27 | Retirement migration is the most commonly discussed example of movement away from large urban areas , and has increasingly affected younger retirees . |
| 28 | It is the most commonly found cancer in men in the UK and , in Scotland and some parts of England , has overtaken breast cancer as the leading cancer of women [ 3 ] . |
| 29 | It is the most commonly found cancer in men in the UK and in Scotland , lung cancer has overtaken breast cancer as the leading cause of cancer deaths among women [ 1 ] . |
| 30 | The halberd is probably the most commonly carried weapon among Empire foot troops . |