Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the most " in BNC.
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| 1 | Intonation helps to produce the effect of prominence on syllables that need to be perceived as stressed , and in particular the placing of tonic stress on a particular syllable marks out the word to which it belongs as the most important in the tone-unit . |
| 2 | I should yawn my head off in a palace , and I should laugh during the most solemn ceremonies , and I should certainly beat my Ministers . |
| 3 | In this research , the investigators shall be examining the process of change under several different headings : the economy ; social relations ; and political institutions , drawing for the most part upon Soviet newspapers and journals , which have become a much better guide to the process of change under current policies of glasnost or openness . |
| 4 | they are between jobs and are taking time to search for the most appropriate job with the highest wage ( search unemployment ) ; |
| 5 | To search for the most appropriate policy-tools which will enable the government to achieve its economic objectives more satisfactorily . |
| 6 | The decision … is to be determined by the most worthless votes given for the most worthless candidates " . |
| 7 | The human conscience should be respected and revered as the most precious and effective thing that the human race , in its struggle to civilise itself , has available , and it can be used only by giving it the utmost priority in child training . |
| 8 | Our model adjusted for the most obvious of these ( age and smoking ) , but there may be other unidentified factors . |
| 9 | / All their products are made on looms designed and built by their own engineers , and recognized as the most technically superior weaving plant in the World / . |
| 10 | Restrictive practices concerned with crewing nationality are to continue for the most part until the end of the century . |
| 11 | In the most serious corruption scandal to face the government of President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro , the Comptroller-General Guillermo Potoy made public on July 17 a report which accused a former deputy Minister of the Presidency , Antonio Ibarra , of misappropriating US$1,000,000 in foreign aid funds intended for the most disadvantaged sectors . |
| 12 | They were not creative artists but they were and still remain for the most part arbiters of technique and the niceties of perfect performance . |
| 13 | A federal plan to finance the cleaning up of toxic waste — known as Superfund — was begun ten years ago with 1,200 out of the US 's 40,000 sites being designated as the most dangerous . |
| 14 | Why is it everyone goes for the most difficult car parking spot ? |
| 15 | Ten years ago I remember I used to think that it was our mental hospitals which later generations would regard as the most staggering and incomprehensible blind spot of our time , on which they would look back as we do upon the generations which burnt witches or tried by ordeal . |
| 16 | Ta Kung Pao , the Communist newspaper regarded as the most reliable voice in Hong Kong of the Peking leadership , displayed a poster reading : ‘ Wash away the shame of the country . ’ |
| 17 | DAN RATHER , the CBS News anchorman , once regarded as the most trusted person in America , has yet to answer charges that he aired faked battle footage and false news accounts of the war in Afghanistan in the mid-1980s . |
| 18 | This is usually regarded as the most sensitive aspect of secret service work . |
| 19 | Die Grünen is generally regarded as the most turbulent and self-destructive of the Green parties , but its internal quarrels are , says Sara Parkin in her guide to the European Greens , ‘ only a more flagrant example ’ of what goes on in all the parties . |
| 20 | is regarded as the most expensive grain in the world , and is n't really a rice at all but a type of grass . |
| 21 | For practical purposes , the culpable causing of another person 's death may fairly be regarded as the most serious offence in the criminal calendar . |
| 22 | If causing death is to be regarded as the most serious harm that can be inflicted , it would seem to follow that the most blameworthy form of homicide should result in the highest sentences imposed by the courts . |
| 23 | Intent to kill may be regarded as the most obvious and indisputable form of fault element for murder , but to some extent that depends on the meaning of ‘ intent ’ . |
| 24 | The Shedd is widely regarded as the most advanced oceanarium in the world . |
| 25 | Memorable especially are the Victorian rectitude of her mother 's grandfather , a public-spirited and popular governor of Hainaut and the introverted idealism of his nephew , Octave Pirmez , still regarded as the most distinguished Belgian essayist of his time ; and Remo , whose anguished pursuit of justice and truth through Germany and Greece ended with his sublime and absurd suicide listening to Tannhauser on his musical box . |
| 26 | The case of Islam provides an interesting example , because Islam is commonly regarded as the most strictly monotheistic of the Near Eastern religions . |
| 27 | But his own estimates , widely regarded as the most reliable of many recent projections , suggest that between 317 000 and 446 000 black South Africans will be HIV-positive by the end of this year . |
| 28 | The habitats which have been hardest hit by the post-war agricultural revolution are on land which was always regarded as the most marginal : the barest hilltops , the steepest hillsides , and the wettest valley bottoms . |
| 29 | With its large population and massive dependence on foreign exchange from oil exports Nigeria is regarded as the most vulnerable of the OPEC countries and has constantly battled to increase its production quota above the 1.3 million barrels per day laid down by OPEC . |
| 30 | They are an important source for two reasons : they indicate that the overload problem has been a constant since the Second World War and is not peculiar to the sixties , seventies and eighties , and that even what has come to be regarded as the most efficiently run administration since 1945 had serious difficulties in the handling of business . |