Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] the most " in BNC.

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1 In the US , mortgage-backed securities apart , credit card securitisation represents arguably the most important segment of the asset-backed securities market .
2 He also became arguably the most famous exponent of the instrument , along with Eric Haydock of The Hollies .
3 Apart from indicating status , each church represents perhaps the most important local focal place for any settlement , and we might spend a lot of time studying it in our local research .
4 So she did , sparing only the most intimate details .
5 This , however , is an over-simplified view as the current phase of uplift and volcanicity represents only the most recent episode in a complex history stretching back to the Mesozoic ; moreover , the history of this vast mountain system differs greatly from one part to another .
6 But the deliberate use of McCarthyism by the leaders of the Republican Party as a weapon against the Democrats offers perhaps the most convincing explanation of its success .
7 There is obvious merit in good insulation , using only the most efficient kitchen appliances , heating systems and such .
8 USING ONLY THE MOST PRACTICAL OF MODERN MATERIALS .
9 Many companies , using only the most casual euphemisms , offer these services , so we spent a day on the phone talking to detective agencies listed in Yellow Pages , asking them what they had to offer .
10 The group seems to have been given only the most broad and general of aims .
11 He suggested that cattle grazing in the ideal landscape should be any other colour than black and white , ‘ which make together the most inharmonious of all mixtures ’ .
12 To achieve these conclusions , Shucksmith used perhaps the most widely used method of ‘ demand curve analysis ’ based on monetary values , the so-called ‘ Clawson method ’ ( Clawson , 1959 ) .
13 But evolution ploughed on remorselessly , enabling only the most adaptable to go on to the next stage .
14 In our history lecture I grasped only the most basic nature of this ‘ wunderkinder ’ warrior creed , but it was something which I was to find permeating the Legion at every level .
15 Chapman insisted , too , that his players should have decent club conditions , and the Highbury dressing-rooms were rated the best in the country at a time when most clubs were content to provide only the most spartan of facilities for changing and cleaning .
16 The committee considered the ‘ offence ’ to be compounded when an answer claimed to be pursuant to an earlier reply ‘ but has only the most tenuous link with it , ’ she said .
17 The student taking a written examination , however , very often has only the most rudimentary knowledge of the skills necessary in writing down his thoughts rapidly and accurately and in mastering the subtle techniques of being a successful examinee — techniques that have no connection at all with the amount of knowledge he may possess .
18 As a friend of mine — who has only the most ephemeral links with any religious tradition — put it recently to me : " We must learn to be channels not engines ! "
19 Not even Adams could believe that Linighan , felled and battered by a 19th minute elbow in the face from Wednesday 's Mark Bright , would be the man to provide perhaps the most fantastic finish to a four-hour saga which had been marked mostly by wretched mediocrity .
20 This changes , subtly , the colours and tones down the most garish of shades .
21 There are many repeating features in this book , and one such is Dickens ' amazing ability to conjure up the most absurd but believable characters .
22 Here is carried out the most theoretical physics of any in Britain .
23 Last week the first practical steps towards such a union were taken when leaders of the RPR , UDF and UDC met and agreed to form a tactical group to work out the most effective means of opposing the government .
24 He was just saying : Tweed is somewhere ahead of us but in this fog — Then he let out the most chilling yell — Ahhhhhhh — and the link went blank . ’
25 The jammers , at a cost of $3.5 million per plane , are designed to identify radars , single out the most dangerous ones and then transmit electronic signals to deceive or interfere with the radars of the hostile air defence weapons .
26 At all levels of church life there is an urgent need for role-models to encourage even the most prejudiced and most embattled to rethink their ways .
27 Almost all PCBs are believed to enter the oceans via the atmosphere , enabling even the most remote parts of the globe to become contaminated .
28 I would n't trust even the most loving one not to leave when another man offers more . ’
29 So long as the world was politically , and militarily , if not economically , permeated with British influence , school geography could safely and fruitfully explore even the most unlikely regions .
30 Be that as it may , the most desperate measures were necessary to provide even the most slender chance of defeating the malevolent hordes .
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