Example sentences of "most [adv] [verb] [noun] [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 centres on the quantitative sense of ‘ popular ’ , proposing ‘ to deal with the pieces which are demonstrably the most popular items of ‘ popular music ’ , with the most widely disseminated items of music disseminated in the mass media' ( Hamm 1982 : 5 ; see also Hamm 1979 : xvii–xxii ; 1982 , passim ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Most market makers also display prices for the most widely traded stocks on screen on SEAQ . |
| 8 | The six-member jury ( composed of four women and two men ) deliberated for 77 minutes before concluding in Smith 's favour and thereby ending one of the most widely reported trials in US history . |
| 9 | Syntax has been one of the most widely investigated areas of linguistics and human processing of language has been intensively studied . |
| 10 | In this respect they were typical of most industrially employed women in Scotland at the time ( see Table 6b ) . |
| 11 | [ One of the most highly cited papers in ethology is Sir Solly Zuckerman 's study of the behaviour of a baboon colony in London Zoo in 1932 . |
| 12 | This effect has been most noticeable , for obvious reasons , in the most highly capitalized forms of production . |
| 13 | And Charlie was probably the most highly paid chauffeur in London . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | This was not a problem which afflicted journalists who were the most carelessly dressed tribe of professionals he had come across . |
| 16 | An extreme climate and thin , stony soils made the windy plateaux ( the páramos ) of Teruel and Huesca the most sparsely populated parts of Spain . |
| 17 | The county is 100 miles long and my constituency is the most sparsely populated area of Cornwall . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | This is one of the richest and most easily found sources of vitamin E , sometimes called ‘ the fertility vitamin ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ Sellafield has made the Irish Sea the most radioactively contaminated stretch of water in the world . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | A recent surge in imports , most notably subsidized products from Brazil , and the stagnation of foreign sales had led to projections that the 1992 trade balance would show a deficit of US$1,000 million , the first deficit since 1981 . |
| 23 | One of the most carefully observed pieces of vaudeville comes in the song whose female part begins , |
| 24 | And blinked and looked again , for the felling of living Trees , the cutting and slicing and mutilating of Trees which had not died and dried and seasoned naturally , was one of the oldest and most strictly forbidden practices in Ireland . |
| 25 | Vesuvius , which is only about ten kilometres from the centre of Naples and in one of the most densely populated areas of Italy , has an irregular cycle of eruptions with twenty-five to thirty years of quiet being followed by a major outburst , when a great plume of dust and ash from the volcano rises over the city , reaching many kilometres into the air . |
| 26 | In London , for instance , the most severely affected boroughs like Hackney and Tower Hamlets , with male unemployment rates of over 28 per cent in 1986 , had already seen sharp rises in joblessness between 1971 and 1981 , which had driven more people to work outside the boroughs of residence and brought a marked fall in the numbers of women in paid work ( Townsend el al. , 1987 ) . |
| 27 | In doing so he reveals the most frequently denied value of humour a defence against the world 's cruel pressures . |
| 28 | We , however , found glutathione S-transferase α to be the most frequently expressed form of glutathione S-transferase in colon carcinomas . |
| 29 | Although mice are probably the most frequently anaesthetized animals in laboratory work , it is still difficult to achieve true surgical anaesthesia without some mortality . |
| 30 | Surveys for the Crowther Committee showed that illness was the most frequently stated reason for default , followed closely by unemployment . |