Example sentences of "most [adj] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most controversial issue raised during the visit related to Japan 's colonial occupation of Korea , and specifically the forced recruitment of thousands of Korean women — some historians suggested as many as 200,000 — to be used sexually by the Imperial Japanese Army fighting in China and South-East Asia . |
| 2 | It is worth noting that in the USA , where modular structures are the norm , most professional education occurs at the postgraduate stage . |
| 3 | What is known , is that approximately 200 enemy aircraft were encountered , in what was the most concentrated attack made on the 401st . |
| 4 | Perhaps the most striking point to note at the outset is that the Black Death itself had a comparatively limited effect on wages and the supply of land . |
| 5 | I have often thought that almost the most foolish act perpetrated by the previous Prime Minister was her sacking of the right hon. Gentleman . |
| 6 | The most conspicuous group to emerge from the 947 names on the Prime Minister 's list — about 30 more than usual — are key figures in the traumatic aftermath to the terrorist bombing of Pan-Am 's Flight 103 over Lockerbie last December . |
| 7 | Now the most painful way to call upon the public to sacrifice its claims is by taxing . |
| 8 | Karelius was aware of a most painful sensation stabbing into the back of his eyes . |
| 9 | This is the most exciting thing to happen on the UK tobacco control front for many years . |
| 10 | All the skiing from here is on glacier and although there is one marked black run , the most exciting skiing lies among the crevasses and ice cliffs . |
| 11 | Whilst chapters are devoted to all the major US fighter types , P–38 , P–47 , P–51 and the like , the most interesting reading comes from the sections devoted to the less successful aircraft like the XP–50 , Hughes D–2 and the P–63 . |
| 12 | The most popular legend relating to the discovery of coffee tells of an Ethiopian mullah and a goat herd . |
| 13 | The most popular story told by the regulars to casual strangers , concerned a very large Swedish seaman who had visited the Blue Boar with a couple of shipmates one evening before the war . |
| 14 | Bourbon , the most popular whisky made in the United States , must have at least 51% corn in the mash ; it may have as much as 79% . |
| 15 | And the most popular figure left in the waxworks ? |
| 16 | Although the two never met , they both forged a figurative style out of the Abstract Expressionism raging all about them — not the most popular move to make at the time . |
| 17 | Does he agree that it would be an act of the most amazing folly to tamper with the provisions that currently apply , and yet that is exactly what the Opposition are committed to doing if they win the general election ? |
| 18 | My prize for the most colourful quote goes to the scientist who said that the likelihood of humans having come about as the result of evolution was the same as a tornado in a scrapyard having accidentally assembled a Jumbo jet . |
| 19 | If all goes to plan , this handbook will be the most comprehensive publication produced by the funeral industry ( in terms of content , distribution and public sector awareness ) and National Council members should be encouraged by the fact that , despite an NAFD launch , it is very much a BIE production . |
| 20 | And it is not the most dangerous plant found in the home . |
| 21 | At the time of the fire , British Nuclear Fuels Ltd , which runs Windscale , used its own estimates of the doses of iodine-131 , the most dangerous radio-isotope released during the fire , on individuals to claim that nobody was at risk . |
| 22 | From then on the most prominent change leading to the human brain was simply an increase in the area of the sheet of cells which forms the neocortex or neopallium . |
| 23 | The most prominent example occurs in the immunoglobulin genes , where one of the many available gene segments encoding a variable region must be brought to a position next to the remainder of the gene before it can be expressed . |
| 24 | But the most categorical report presented to the June symposium comes — by chance — from seven researchers at the Lilly Laboratory for Clinical Research , Wishard Memorial Hospital , Indianapolis ; Lilly Research Laboratories , Indianapolis ; and Indiana University School of Medicine , Indianapolis . |
| 25 | The most serious problem faced by the British Electricity Authority in 1948 was the chronic disequilibrium of supply and demand . |
| 26 | The most serious trouble occurred in the southern city of Hyderabad , capital of Andhra Pradesh , where as many as 200 people died in a week of violence which started on Dec. 7 . |
| 27 | The most serious breach occurred in the spring and summer of 1941 as a result of a crisis in the Middle East . |
| 28 | Ironically , the most noticeable example comes at the end of scene ten , when Broadbent admits that Anderson 's advice on the Czech team 's tactics has proved depressingly sound : Anderson 's laconic replies implicate his loss of interest in the topic , following scene six , even now that Broadbent actually shows interest in what he had said earlier and allocates a turn to him twice . |
| 29 | The intention is to ensure that decisions are taken at national level whenever that is the most appropriate way to deal with the decisions . |
| 30 | First , it was , after bombing , the most crucial life-event experienced by the civilian population . |