Example sentences of "most [adv] [verb] by [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Appropriately , the Wilcox narrative seems to be the book of his most widely read by the kind of people who have just put in a tough day at the office or have two weeks on the beach before clocking back on . |
| 2 | If a system of government is , in the long term to continue to enjoy the broad acquiescence on which , in a democratic society , it stands , it must be sufficiently responsive to the voices of the governed and this is most effectively ensured by the constitution 's providing for the regulation of social affairs at the lowest and most immediate level possible . |
| 3 | Changes to this ratio are most effectively induced by the operation of media , which McLuhan defines as extensions to the senses . |
| 4 | THE GOVERNMENT of Flanders , the region of Belgium most badly hit by the collapse of traditional industries , has launched a ‘ do or die ’ attempt to create economic growth through new technologies . |
| 5 | Although both parents will be affected by the departure of children , the impact is likely to be most keenly felt by the woman . |
| 6 | Pressure on land was fairly slack in the south ( most obviously shown by the fact that when holdings were reoccupied they were often taken up by men who already held land , and not by landless men ) , whereas in the east there was no shortage of tenants , and the demand for land was maintained . |
| 7 | Similarly , we need to ask : what kind of music is most easily understood by the visitor ? |
| 8 | This can be most easily achieved by an observer who is present while the recording is being made and who can make a full transcription within a few hours . |
| 9 | But the social tact of the Masai was most impressively demonstrated by the fact that they rarely asked for anything . |
| 10 | It was the more sophisticated who developed a consciousness of human dignity which was most deeply offended by the crudity and brutality of the Russian factory order . |
| 11 | Geophysical and geochemical research projects are frequently used to locate tectonic and metamorphic boundaries , which again are most concisely described by a map . |
| 12 | The decay of the Roman empire was most clearly revealed by the decline of towns and increasing ruralization . |
| 13 | The objectives of these various strategies is most clearly illustrated by the use of profit diagrams which show profit or loss at expiry ( when all time value disappears ) in relation to the price of the underlying share price . |
| 14 | Corinth , then , not Sparta , was most nearly affected by the rapprochement between Athens and Megara in 460 and , consistently with this , it was Corinth rather than Sparta who fought Athens hardest in the war which now broke out , the First Peloponnesian War , of 460–446 . |
| 15 | It was definitely a print , most probably made by the toe of a rubber-soled sports-shoe ; a tennis-shoe , perhaps , or basket-ball boot . |
| 16 | Adam and Mrs Macmillan , and Mr and Mrs Michael Rapinet were among others enjoying this excellent dance , which , Lord Craigmyle said , was ‘ Fun for everyone and funds for pilgrims ’ ! the Slaughter House Seven played during dinner ; and after the auction , which was most efficiently conducted by the Chairman of the OMV Mr Stephen Macklow-Smith , Mr Dick Ritchie of Continental Airlines , who had donated the top prize which was a trip for two to Houston , Texas for a week , said a few words . |
| 17 | The disintegration of an older order , at once exhilarating and disturbing , was most famously expressed by the poet John Donne . |
| 18 | On the lower parts of the marsh , which are most frequently covered by the tide , accretion at the rate of almost 1 cm per year has been recorded at Scolt Head Island , while at higher levels , where the frequency of flooding by the tide is less , this is reduced to one half or less of the rate at the lowest levels . |
| 19 | The Russian-French observatory , is part of a wider programme of space collaboration , most dramatically shown by the flight , aboard a Russian rocket , of a French cosmonaut last summer . |
| 20 | The case for loans has been most strongly argued by a group at the London School of Economics whose main criticism of an entirely grant-based approach is that it favours better-off families , and as it is currently operated it leaves many students in poverty . |
| 21 | The neo-classical assumption of an underlying tendency towards equality is , however , most hotly disputed by a school of thought which would argue , by contrast , that the very fact of uneven development at any one time creates further processes which make that inequality hard to counter . |
| 22 | Most neatly captured by the notion of the free economy and the strong state ( Miliband and Saville , 1979 ; Gamble , 1988 ) , the project has involved both the disciplinary reaction to those who have come out worst from this restructuring in the handling of uprisings among British Black communities and a series of confrontations with the Trade Union movement and the need to present massive cuts in welfare service delivery as essential for economic prosperity . |
| 23 | Inexpensive size analysis of naturally occurring fine sediments or of material obtained from wet sieving of a sediment containing significant fines is most satisfactorily achieved by the use of the pipette method ( Krumbein & pettijohn , 1961 ; Galehouse , 1971b ; Folk , 1974b ) . |
| 24 | This is most recently illustrated by the judgment of Hutchison J. in Thackwell v. Barclays Bank Plc. [ 1986 ] 1 All E.R. |