Example sentences of "most [adv] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The clearest and harshest expression of this twofold approach ( and one which certainly brings into the open its ultimate presuppositions ) was perhaps the application of the doctrine of predestination in the Federal or Covenant Theology of the seventeenth century as expressed in such classic statements as the Westminster Confession , which for centuries held sway on both sides of the Atlantic as the most widely authoritative summary in English of Reformed orthodoxy . |
| 2 | The most widely accepted definition of tool use is that it is the use of some external object as an extension of the body to attain an immediate objective . |
| 3 | Consequently mortality is the oldest and most widely used index of health status . |
| 4 | The most widely used system of nomenclature of chemical compounds is that recommended by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry ( IUPAC ) . |
| 5 | The most widely used form of treatment is the bell and pad . |
| 6 | The condom is the most widely used form of contraception ( 41% ) , the pill is used by the partner of 31% of our sample , while such devices as the coil and diaphragm appear to have lost whatever popularity they once enjoyed . |
| 7 | Two months later the Ashleys hired their most professionally qualified applicant to date in the retail sector , Liza Wanklyn , an American living in Paris , had graduated from design school and had worked for Jean Muir and Givenchy before applying to join ‘ Laura Ashley ’ . |
| 8 | It looked real enough at a quick glance , and the Crane Street area is not the most brilliantly lighted neighbourhood in town . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , the most highly automated programme of language teaching is no better than the material it contains ; it is what we put into it that determines the quality of the automation . |
| 10 | For centuries , man has thought of himself as the most highly evolved form of life on earth , using his five senses to build up a composite and highly complex picture of the world around him . |
| 11 | I hope you will follow up your cycling experience by campaigning for real improvements for this most environmentally friendly form of transport . |
| 12 | She asserted that multinational companies should not be blamed for damage to the environment , and further stated that nuclear power was the most environmentally safe form of energy . |
| 13 | Disabled people do not need to deny the individual psychological costs they pay ; rather , we need to identify them as a most directly experienced aspect of oppression , and dispute not the existence of psychological distress in disabled people but the kinds of causal account that are produced . |
| 14 | Quality adjusted life years ( QALYs ) form the core of the most thoroughly articulated theory of allocation in health care . |
| 15 | We are ‘ involved ’ in the most thoroughly mediated war in history but now more than ever vicarious contact with the front line via blanket news coverage fails to guarantee comprehensibility , still less access to the truth . |
| 16 | This is also the place to enjoy the most ridiculously tame bird of prey you have ever seen , the striated caracara . |
| 17 | Admittedly , Jean Poiret 's congealed froth of a farce is a cut above the spurious Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune and Exclusive , the most radically merit-free play in town , if not history . |
| 18 | Glastonbury is the unmissable event , the grooviest vibe of the music year , but Reading is the heaviest bill , the most densely packed agglomeration of rawk bands and fans to be found anywhere . |
| 19 | A ‘ telling-off ’ , be it at maximum decibels , or in a quiet but cutting tone of voice , is probably the most frequently used form of sanction . |
| 20 | The most potentially explosive area of contact between headquarters and the Boards was in financial control . |
| 21 | Despite relegation on the last day of the season ( which he regards as something of a relief , peace at last for a terminally ill football team ) , his favourite , most lovingly cherished day of suffering remains April 13 , 1985 . |
| 22 | Although the prothrombin time remains the best and most readily available measure of liver function in such cases , arterial acidosis ( pH <7.30 ) and renal failure also indicate an adverse prognosis . |
| 23 | Having determined their grievances and immobilised their ships by unreefing sails , cutting rigging or picketing , the sailors would march with a petition to the most readily available source of authority . |
| 24 | Mortality data are the most readily available source of information about the health of the population . |
| 25 | The simplest and most readily comprehensible model of government hardly exists . |
| 26 | The most commonly applied method for recognition is by matching input script with a database of previously collected ‘ template ’ characters . |
| 27 | More police officers visibly going about their business is the most commonly advanced solution to street crime . |
| 28 | While the yield to maturity is the single most commonly used measure of yield , it nevertheless has several disadvantages . |
| 29 | In the USA , mustard is the most commonly used spice after pepper . |
| 30 | During the 1930s the most commonly used piece of laboratory apparatus was the maze , often modelled on the one at Hampton Court . |