Example sentences of "and most [adj] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 If you are importing , the cheapest and most straightforward methods of settlement are by international payments in currency or sterling , and Midland offers three options : Priority Payments , where speed of funds transfer is of paramount importance ; Mail Payments , where there is less urgency ; and Bankers Drafts , which are particularly appropriate for low priority , low value payments .
2 First people have to start hiding from themselves , because that is where the hardest and most persistent voice of criticism is coming from .
3 Outside the castle gates visitors will find one of the finest and most complete circuits of town walls anywhere in Europe — over three quarters of a mile in length with 22 towers and three original gateways .
4 No ; Charlie was the cruellest and most lethal type of seducer .
5 Most said they did not find the actual tasks they performed for the dementia sufferer difficult , but two-thirds found one or more of the symptoms of dementia difficult to cope with , and most described feelings of strain .
6 The result is one of the largest , most detailed , and most accessible studies of land ownership anywhere in the USA .
7 We are looking at the training arrangements and are anxious to ensure that our future forces receive the best and most relevant forms of training in the most efficient and cost-effective way .
8 APS can decide the most appropriate and most efficient method of payment , and provide immediate electronic advice of funds received for crediting to an account .
9 The former has the longest and most consistent record of prosperity .
10 They date from a period of cataclysmic turmoil , when Palestine was ravaged by war , the Holy City and most sacred shrine of Judaism was destroyed , all records were scattered and people 's memories of events were blurred or modified by more recent occurrences .
11 Edward was not a great reader but he knew quite well that he was broaching the oldest and most central concern of literature ; he felt appropriately diffident .
12 That is my first and most powerful memory of separation from my mother , and even though it lasted only a year , those feelings of rejection and insecurity have coloured my life .
13 This is in practice the most important and most powerful form of control ,
14 Perhaps the longest and most controversial piece of business transacted was the disestablishment of the Hong Kong Branch .
15 The commonest and most visible indices of field officer performance are negative , as an agency head explained : ‘ An area supervisor will sit there and say , ‘ So and so has let me down again .
16 Thus Foxton retained its importance as a place of special interest to canal people , and reinforced its reputation by becoming the site for one of the oddest , most technologically ingenious and most spectacular pieces of engineering in the whole canal system .
17 Boswell finding Johnson ‘ in the kindest and most agreeable frame of mind ’ asked him ‘ explicitly whether it would be improper to publish his letters after his death .
18 UNICEF has the widest and most varied range of stationery lots of all purpose cards in all sorts of styles , plus handsome stationery sets with designs based on blankets woven by the Navajo Indians .
19 Mirrors , being the most readily available and most literal source of self-perception — a faculty which is always weak in anorexics — also play an important role in the symbology or symbolism of the disease .
20 One of the purest and most potent forms of skincare today
21 Is this not the worst and most pernicious kind of sexism ?
22 The clearest and most sophisticated expositions of secularisation that I know can be found in Martin ( 1978 ) and Dobbelaere ( 1981 ) .
23 However , this will be done with a very broad sweep to permit the focus in later chapters to concentrate on what is the essential and most interesting feature of routine policing in Northern Ireland : namely , how societal divisions affect and constrain it .
24 Finally Brooks of Clapham included a varied and most interesting collection of aviation memorabilia in their sale on September 15 .
25 Touch is the earliest and most primitive form of communication and is an important form of non-verbal communication throughout life ; it can convey a myriad of positive and negative messages between people .
26 The most venerable and most formal mode of communication is the diplomatic channel .
27 Thus even the earliest and most modest collection of phrase structure rules would have been pregnant with new output ; and as the rules became entrenched so too would innovative effort and diagnostic insight become more relaxed and automatic , as words appeared newly combined in well-understood syntactic contexts .
28 L/Ap — shell length divided by aperture length ( Fig. 22 ) is the simplest , most convenient and most objective measure of shell shape in dog-whelks .
29 All that would be needed to perfect the system would be to eliminate the final and most tiresome source of error — the electors .
30 ‘ … the fundamental and most basic unit of resistance , and creative extension of control , on the shop floor .
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