Example sentences of "a [adj] and most [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had only met them once and they had seemed a friendly and most devoted couple . |
| 2 | With the money safe in his pocket , he felt a strange and most unfamiliar feeling of pleased anticipation stirring inside him ; he was really looking forward to his appointment with Nutty , to find out what it felt like to ride a horse . |
| 3 | Decorating a sheet of music with some pressed flowers is a charming and most unusual way of remembering a favourite song or composer . |
| 4 | It was a straightforward and most pertinent question . |
| 5 | This is a traditional and most unfortunate highland practice but nevertheless it is something that is currently accepted by the church and I would hope that the convenor in drawing up , or the panel in drawing up the leaflet , would take account of this . |
| 6 | This should be a gracious and most enjoyable evening . |
| 7 | And that was a delightful and most alarming sensation , when the long , airy arms of the West Wind reached down through the trees and caught him up , and the leaves were all shivering and clattering and trembling with her passing , and the straws danced before the house and the dust rose and flew about in little earth-fountains . |
| 8 | I had a new and most exciting adversary , a traitor in my midst . |
| 9 | These hints were followed up by many gentlemen : and I think I never saw Mr Loudon more pleased than when a highly respectable gardener once told him that he was living in a new and most comfortable cottage , which his master had built for him ; a noble marquess , who said that he should never have thought of it , but for the observations in Mr Loudon 's Gardener 's Magazine , as they made him consider whether the cottage was comfortable or not , and that , as soon as he did so , he perceived its deficiencies . |
| 10 | Finally Brooks of Clapham included a varied and most interesting collection of aviation memorabilia in their sale on September 15 . |
| 11 | His reputation as ‘ a venerable and most pious king ’ — the words of Bede — rested chiefly on his friendship with Benedict Biscop [ q.v . ] , |
| 12 | The diurnal raptors and small mammalian carnivores form a third and most extreme group ( Fig. 3.10 ) . |