Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] most [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Official History of the Ryder Cup by Michael Williams is well researched and therefore surprisingly interesting while Ryder Cup ‘ 89 conveys the atmosphere of the event rather better than most instant histories . |
| 2 | In this country there is probably no river or wetland which is ‘ natural ’ in the sense that it has never been interfered with by man ; but river systems have two major characteristics which have enabled their wildlife in all its original complexity to survive interference better than most other systems . |
| 3 | One of those great Amazonian types who can do most things better than most other people ? ’ |
| 4 | In terms of sampling the curriculum , examinations do rather better than most testing programmes . |
| 5 | Perhaps because I knew from an early age that he was not long for this world , I tried to make his time in it as pleasant as possible , and thus ended up treating him far better than most young boys treat their younger brothers . |
| 6 | Their resale potential is , however , undermined by their standardized production , and , although they will probably hold their value better than most Indian , Chinese , Pakistani or Balkan items , they are unlikely to develop high investment potential over the longer term . |
| 7 | It remains true , however , that the Greeks see the cross within the context of the incarnation perhaps more so than most Western thinkers . |
| 8 | There are many reasons for this ; not only are leather corals very attractive , but they are also relatively hardy , much more so than most other coral types , such as stony corals , gorgonians or such beautiful soft corals as cauliflower corals ( Dendronephtya spp ) . |
| 9 | Yep , yep erm these officers are all trained in , in fire prevention work erm at the Fire Service 's technical college at Morton Marsh , and er they practise those skills they learn there over many years erm I 'm looking back , I mean the time that I spent in training schools and er and in , in the job er I suppose when you total it all up it must be two or three years away from home really , er in courses you know , in my day we went away on fire prevention training classes six months , six months ' course was the , so you went away to the Fire Service college which in those days was at Dorking , a lovely place in Dorking , and you did six months there solid , and then nowadays about thirteen weeks , the courses run about thirteen weeks , and you are constantly fire , fire officers from the ranks of erm probably a Sub Officer , leading fireman in some places , but Sub Officer onwards and particularly Station Officer up to the more senior ranks are away on courses regularly for , it 's really updating people erm new legislation coming in , new techniques coming in , erm which have to be these people have to be updated so they are very well trained , erm more so than most local authority people I would think , fire , fire officers are , erm purely because the job is such a wide range of , of things to deal with . |
| 10 | So whereas most financial services people er that come to us erm would have put down here er as you have , er in answer to our question , Have you qualified sales by telephone ? |
| 11 | More recently , studies of modern objects by archaeologists working in the sub-discipline of ethno-archaeology have sought to provide ‘ general and testable ’ laws of stylistic behaviour , strongly influenced by an extreme and exquisitely inappropriate form of positivism which took hold of the discipline in the 1960s , and appears to have been retained long after most other social sciences threw off its shackles ( e.g. Binford 1972 ; 1978 ; Gould and Schiffer eds 1981 , see Hodder 1982a and b for a critique ) . |
| 12 | Similarly , it is almost impossible to say exactly where most Chinese rugs were made . |
| 13 | ‘ And a Marine can live longer than most ordinary men , as you should know . |
| 14 | In its legislative and scrutiny activities , Westminster is one of the most active in Europe , sitting for far longer than most other assemblies . |
| 15 | Because Britain had been producing nuclear power longer than most other countries , this was a particularly acute problem . |
| 16 | When Seebohm Rowntree carried out his first study of poverty in York in 1899 , he found that around I per cent of the poor were old people , largely because most working-class people worked until they died , or were incarcerated in the workhouse . |
| 17 | The obvious problem with information about credit is that , the more people need it ( that is , the groups shown above as most ill-informed about credit , and most likely to use unnecessarily high-cost credit ) the more difficult it is to make sure it reaches them . |
| 18 | Just as most large organizations and systems have found important uses for the computer in accounting and housekeeping operations , so also large libraries , whether public , academic or special , have tended to put their acquisitions and other operations on to computer , and considerable experiment has been going on with the applications of computerization to information retrieval . |
| 19 | Since Jews deviated further than most other groups from the blueprint he had in mind , he needed to take particularly strong measures to make them conform to it . |
| 20 | Moreover , there are within it , more than most other subjects , marked political differences between the leading figures in the field . |
| 21 | Feminist psychology recognizes the importance of theory more than most other psychology , and it is growing increasingly sophisticated in its theoretical approach . |
| 22 | There is some comment has been made that a new settlement to the South or the South West of York would in some way undermine the urban regeneration erm of Leeds City Council , now I find this a surprising comment given that though people who are making that comment are also at the same time advocating much increased development allocations to , for example , Harrogate district , the main centre for which is erm , nearer than most conceivable new settlement locations to the South and South West of York . |
| 23 | From the middle of the sixteenth century there had , however , been some confusion in England , mainly because most continental countries had adopted 1 January as the beginning of their year , and had also assumed the same year number . |
| 24 | Large-scale industrialization and urbanization were bad enough as far as most Basque Nationalists were concerned ; even worse was the descent upon their homeland of tens of thousands of ‘ Spanish ’ immigrant workers , many of whom were affiliated to the Socialist UGT . |
| 25 | As far as most outstanding bonds are concerned this is still true but the picture has become more varied . |
| 26 | From now on , I 'll concentrate on the virtues of Granada 's resumed series which , like Jeeves , continues as far as most other viewers are concerned to give complete satisfaction . |
| 27 | As far as most nineteenth-century thinkers were concerned , it was obvious that the driving force of human evolution must have been a steady expansion of the brain , which merely continued the progressive thread that ran through the whole evolution of life . |
| 28 | Most significantly , and as far as most English observers were concerned most ominously , diplomatic relations with Rome which had been broken off at the Reformation were now restored . |
| 29 | The acceptance of tidied-up urban commons as an alternative to mown grass may be well in the future as far as most local authorities are concerned . |
| 30 | Even now most scholarly journals pay nothing and you are lucky to get a fee if you talk at a conference . |