Example sentences of "[art] most [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His term as Mayor coincided with one of the most turbulent periods in English history . |
| 2 | The town lies in North Morazn , one of the most turbulent areas of El Salvador . |
| 3 | Occasionally I would have preferred a more urgent tempo for the most turbulent responses , such as ‘ Seniores populi ’ ( track 6 ) and ‘ Tradiderunt me ’ ( track 10 ) . |
| 4 | Arguably the most turbulent priest in the Anglo-Saxon experience , Wilfrid spent a great deal of his mature life entering into and returning from exiles imposed by English kings with whom he had quarrelled . |
| 5 | The most stupefying performance , however , came from Cecilia Gasdia , a voice of evidently limited power ( the second part , made up of arias , showed her physical limitations , notably in ‘ D'amor al dolce impero ’ from Tancredi ) , but her dash , her sinewy vocalization , her miraculous phrasing , the skill with which she marshalled the resources of her voice , all conspired to make the first half ( La Separazione , Mi lagnerò tacendo , Bolero above all ) a miraculous experience . |
| 6 | Luckily , basic preventative measures and healthy lifestyles are within the reach of even the most impoverished Solomon Islander who , in the case of malaria , can greatly reduce chances of possible infection with a combination of fixing drainage , making or buying mosquito nets and learning more about how the disease works . |
| 7 | I came across one of the most pitiful things I have ever known . |
| 8 | It is the most pitiful thing in the world . |
| 9 | mites of the most prized vintages , |
| 10 | In America the first so far discovered dates from 1674 , but the most prized plates , e.g. those of Washington and Paul Revere , occur a hundred years afterwards . |
| 11 | Black was decreed to be the only acceptable colour ( though a few white hairs in the switch and a little white on the udder were permissible ) and the most prized colour was an almost chocolate brown-black . |
| 12 | A house is one of the most prized possessions in our society . |
| 13 | An interesting example of the latter would be vandalism — often picked on as being a particularly ‘ inexplicable ’ activity in conventional motivational terms ; yet in the early years of the film industry the destruction of property ( especially the most prized objects such as cars ) constituted the most popular film content , and still draws large audiences today . |
| 14 | To own land was to possess , not only a symbol of status , but also the most prized source of wealth and power . |
| 15 | Sadly , one of the most prized wildlife trophies remains the head of a mountain gorilla . |
| 16 | He also succeeded in winning pledges from the rulers of Valencia , then perhaps the most prized city of Spain . |
| 17 | I had been away for the weekend and David Bowie is not the most domesticated person in the world . |
| 18 | Even the most avid mycologists dislike being shot over a chanterelle . |
| 19 | Not a city but a metropolis , with enough mazy back streets and alleys and passageways to satisfy the most avid intriguer . |
| 20 | They are about the most helpless creatures available ! |
| 21 | ‘ The most devastating evidence about the scale of the problem was ‘ presented to Parliament ’ in 1980 . |
| 22 | The most devastating attack comes from Gilder ( 1979 ) , who has provided empirical evidence on the costs of educational , sewerage , public transport and health facilities in rural areas . |
| 23 | Here , at the site of the most devastating explosion in human memory , we wished to demonstrate both the unity and the fragility of the earth by blowing soap bubbles across the crater . |
| 24 | I 'd never seen a white blues band playing so good and this kid , Jimmie Vaughan , was playing some of the most devastating guitar I 've ever heard in my life . |
| 25 | The most devastating critique of the proposal to create incentives to efficient behaviour from a modified profit system and ‘ deferred prizes ’ comes from Wade . |
| 26 | This proved to be a fateful oversight since one of the most devastating criticisms to be levelled at Keynesian macroeconomics in recent years has been that it has such shaky foundations in microeconomics . |
| 27 | Eagleton , for example , describes socialist realism as " one of the most devastating assaults on artistic culture ever witnessed in modern history " , and refers to its principal Soviet advocate , Zhdanov , as " Stalin 's cultural thug " . " |
| 28 | A telephone call with the most devastating news followed . |
| 29 | The deal will eliminate heavy intercontinental missiles and multiple-warhead missiles , the most devastating weapons mankind has ever devised . |
| 30 | At the same time the inner part lies too high for it to be entrusted to the cellos without probable results of the most devastating nature . |