Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] most [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is also the case that the two commonly used relationships with ratios often and 100 concern millimetres , centimetres and metres and are perhaps the units which most pupils use most frequently . |
| 2 | Not only were they more cheaply remunerated — at the church 's expense , mainly — and far more experienced in the business and technicalities of administration and negotiation , but their clerical status gave them a weight which most laymen could only acquire by aristocratic connections or by ennoblement ; lay chancellors , to be of any consequence , needed political and dynastic links , which could also spell danger for the king . |
| 3 | I do not now intend by beauty of shapes what most people would expect , such as that of living creatures or pictures , but … straight lines and curves and the surfaces of solid forms produced out of these by lathes and rulers and squares … |
| 4 | Wood engraving was a technique which most artists could not manage , so a craftsman was needed to translate the drawing ; on the other hand , an artist might be expected to do his picture on the stone , from which it would be directly printed . |
| 5 | The gap was less than the £1 billion deficit which most experts had feared . |
| 6 | Technology and passion unite to promote values which most clubgoers would cross the universe to avoid . |
| 7 | The explanation of this furrow was discovered in the 1960s and restored the reputation of a German geophysicist who proposed a hypothesis which most people disregarded . |
| 8 | So the hedges which most interest the historian are those which most fascinate the botanist . |
| 9 | If Douglas 's brutality epitomizes racial , cultural , and sexual domination in its most callously direct form , Gide 's self-description of remaining in the security of his room , considering it wiser not to intervene , becomes a resonant image of the hesitant complicities which most kinds of brutality and exploitation presuppose and in which most of us are implicated . |
| 10 | Probably sees worse h'self most nights . ’ |
| 11 | John Lambert wrote in the Daily Express that Maggie Smith was a ‘ rare commodity — a very funny girl whom most men would like to get serious with . |
| 12 | Instead of applications saturated with functions which most users will never need , Microsoft , Lotus and their rivals are starting to produce products which are easy to learn and use . |
| 13 | But over and above that , most Americans in the late eighteenth century believed that , in so far as government had any impact on their lives , it would be local government , it would be the government of their state and not the remote government in Washington which most people in the eighteenth century had never visited or knew anything about erm or li knew little of what it did . |
| 14 | Does it matter if a person derives some kind of sexual satisfaction from an act which most people or ‘ right-minded persons ’ would not regard as indecent ? |
| 15 | Feminists in the party claim there is a glass ceiling which most women can not break through to win the most influential posts . |
| 16 | Nor was the Treasury convinced by the repeated arguments for the costly increases in police manpower which most Home Secretaries felt they had to secure in order to demonstrate their credibility . |
| 17 | Predictably , she was not sympathetic to the boisterous ways of a young teenager , though she did not go so far as a Mrs Dudley who complained to Bloomsbury House that one of her fifteen-year-old lodgers , Willy , had ‘ broken the beading on a wardrobe and had also broken a chair ’ , offences which most parents of healthy teenagers would have accepted as part of growing up . |
| 18 | Too clever by half , they could encapsulate in a song-title what most bands could never express in a career — ‘ We Live As We Dream , Alone ’ , ‘ Capital ( It Fails Us Now ) ’ and ‘ To Hell With Poverty ’ with its neat rejoinder ‘ … let's get drunk on cheap wine ’ . |
| 19 | Too clever by half , they could encapsulate in a song-title what most bands could never express in a career — ‘ We Live As We Dream , Alone ’ , ‘ Capital ( It Fails Us Now ) ’ and ‘ To Hell With Poverty ’ with its neat rejoinder ‘ … let's get drunk on cheap wine ’ . |
| 20 | The greatest attraction of the alternative programme is the two free days which most players would have each week for rest , recovery from injuries and practice . |
| 21 | But then the doubles , the match which most Canadians viewed as their ‘ legitimate shot ’ , proved to be Sweden 's toehold comeback . |
| 22 | These developments have inevitably set in motion yet another of those educational bandwagons which most teachers have by now learned to view with extreme caution . |
| 23 | In early June Keating unsuccessfully challenged Hawke for the ALP leadership , in a move which most commentators agreed left Hawke politically damaged . |
| 24 | The only defendant to testify was Salaam , a move which most observers saw as having increased his chances of conviction . |
| 25 | The lengthy period which most party leaders have already spent in Parliament before gaining office certainly gives them time and opportunity to acquire suitable skills . |
| 26 | This is usually a painful process which most authors secretly hate ! |
| 27 | The aim of the Quebec commission — a 36-member panel of business , labour and community leaders in Quebec — was to recommend a new relationship between the 7,000,000-strong province and the federal government , a process which most observers believed would involve the holding of a referendum on the issue of secession similar to that which was defeated in 1980 [ see also p. 38092 ] . |
| 28 | The women , too , had to cope with all the household duties , including feeding men and hired hands with appetites honed by constant fresh air and exercise , with none of the labour-saving aids which most women took for granted . |
| 29 | The skills they possess make them a valued commodity which most organizations would be loath to lose and keen to gain . |
| 30 | the personal community charge which most adults have to pay |