Example sentences of "most [adj] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also recommended was the withdrawal from the townships of the most controversial of the security forces , the former Namibian counterinsurgency unit Koevoet ( " Crowbar " ) and 32 battalion , members of which had been responsible for rape and other assaults during " peacekeeping " operations . |
| 2 | I am most grateful to the Area Chairmen in the North East , Tayside , the Highlands and in London for their counsel and support . |
| 3 | I am most grateful to the Area Chairmen in Tayside , the Highlands and in London for their continuing counsel and support . |
| 4 | The most liquid of the market loans are money at call and short notice lent to the discount houses . |
| 5 | I hold him down , Nathan operates the most stable of the head torches , Odd-Knut operates the needle and thread and Tony takes the photographs . |
| 6 | As it also happens to be the only drinker on the Cherwell until you get to Islip , the murderous conspiracies and dark plots which so excite the Kidlington Kops amount to nothing more than the fact that when I opened my curtains that morning I saw the sun shining in a cloudless blue sky and decided to go for the longest and most pleasant of the river walks open to me . |
| 7 | Taylor , who had proved the most obdurate of the faction leaders at all stages of the ceasefire negotiations , was reported to feel angry and cheated over the Lomé agreement . |
| 8 | Benjamin seemed most interested in the charcoal braziers and sifted with his boot amongst the white ashes of the fire but , muttering to himself , claimed he could discover nothing untoward . |
| 9 | This drug duo may have been singled out because their penchant for fine racehorses and private zoos , not to mention murder on a massive scale , made them the most public of the mafia bosses . |
| 10 | I am — was — a doctor , first-generation professional class ; as you see , there 's no moustache , though I have the military past which men of my age could n't avoid ; I live in Essex , most characterless and therefore most acceptable of the Home Counties ; whisky , not gin ; no tweed at all ; and no boating . |
| 11 | Gillespie Park is currently being expanded to include some rail sidings , losing some of the original park in the process , but saving the most interesting of the wildlife habitats . |
| 12 | That team had co-developed VPix , probably the most popular of the MS-DOS emulators , with Interactive . |
| 13 | The most popular of the Fairy Basslets is known by many popular names , but very often it is called the Wreck Fish , or Lyretail Coral Fish Pseudanthias squamipinnis . |
| 14 | The most popular of the chameleon cultivars . |
| 15 | Menshevik and SR sympathizers dominated the soldiers ' committees ; among the peasantry the SRs enjoyed far more support than any other party ; the Mensheviks were most prominent in the trade unions ; together the two parties won large majorities in municipal duma elections which began in May ; and in June they dominated the First All-Russian Congress of Soviets and consolidated control of its Central Executive Committee ( CEC ) . |
| 16 | It is the largest and most central of the security forces : the Army and UDR take their orders from it . |
| 17 | The most serious of the plant proposals is probably that from Chile to delete from Appendix I ‘ dead specimens ’ of a magnificent and endangered tree known as alerce or Chilean false larch . |
| 18 | A joint declaration signed on March 1 by the three leaders followed three days of " reconciliation talks " , at which Capt. Blaise Compaore , the Burkinabe head of state , was understood to have exerted his personal influence with Taylor , reportedly the most intransigent of the faction leaders . |
| 19 | The relief-picture offering vases or rhytons were probably the most remarkable of the vase makers ' creations . |
| 20 | The most unpopular of the security forces is the Ulster Defence Regiment , the locally-recruited and predominantly Protestant force . |
| 21 | Once the most magnificent of the zenana buildings , it was the only one to be the exclusive residence of a single woman . |
| 22 | An illustration of this came when the Daily Mirror , for reasons of their own , carried a feature article about Oxford United and paid particular attention to Eric — one of the most regular of the chant leaders . |
| 23 | Sugar is the most addictive of the zero foods . |
| 24 | He was known to have developed a huge network of patronage , and was widely considered to be the most powerful of the opposition candidates . |
| 25 | A flagrant breach of truce in 1596 made history , and led to the creation of one of the most famous of the Border Ballads collected by Sir Walter Scott and others : the tale of Kinmont Willie . |
| 26 | As N. Cohn has shown , the image of the multi-headed dragon was a common illustration in the most notorious of the conspiracy texts — The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion . |
| 27 | The most notorious of the show trials was that of László Rajk in 1949 . |
| 28 | The feathery and delicate fronds of the ferns make them among the most beautiful of the foliage plants , and they attract a fanatical group of devotees dedicated to growing exotic species in inhospitable cities . |
| 29 | The conflict in Ireland is the most important of the case studies , and some of the broader themes have been selected to provide a wider perspective on this issue . |
| 30 | Finally , by far the most important of the planning tools for any concerned with repair , maintenance and alterations of buildings are Listed Buildings . |