Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the most " in BNC.
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| 1 | I persisted , rather surprised that somebody who really had done something was so reticent , when there are people , like me for instance , who bleat on about the most tawdry experiences . |
| 2 | Erm I think it would be nice if the grammar were checked from , we promised to give high priority in responding , surely we can give priority to responding , and as a small point , I was gon na go on about the most important road which of course is Breadfield Street |
| 3 | It also weighs in as the most comfortable waterproof jacket I 've worn . |
| 4 | That tour has , of course , gone down as the most exciting series of the century . |
| 5 | The drinkers , drunk as they were , full of glasses of wine , fell back from the man , who , with the rags he wore , had surprisingly clean white underpants — what struck Rab — raised his coat and squatted down as the most natural thing in the world . |
| 6 | In a constantly shifting scene it must go down as the most important symbolic change imaginable . |
| 7 | Since the disease is heterosexually transmitted in Africa , the group which has come in for the most blame for its rapid spread have been the many poor women who have been supporting themselves in Nairobi through commercial sex . |
| 8 | The implacable opposition of employers had forced wages down despite the most determined efforts of the trade unions . |
| 9 | Their front row trio , Johann Styger , Willie Hills and Keith Andrews , admitted that they had prepared on the basis that they would scrum down against the most successful England unit in history . |
| 10 | Officers wore scrimshaws as jewellery along with the most noble , holy decorations incorporating tiny slivers of the Emperor 's own armour from aeons ago , prior to the time when that Divine Immortal was prisoned in his prosthetic golden throne . |
| 11 | Just a spoonful of sugar of sugar makes the medicine go down in the most delightful way ! |
| 12 | Could always be relied upon to break down on the most dangerous stretch of the motorway . |
| 13 | But in the last round she had two fences down on the most difficult course , with Mandevilles Supreme , the mount of William Funnell , another of the finalists . |
| 14 | But just as crucial , if any new project is to avoid dereliction , engineers must investigate maintenance down to the most minute of details . |
| 15 | It never fails to amaze me how little some people know about the fish they are buying , even down to the most basic of aspects . |
| 16 | Not far behind this overall vision of justice came his anxious consideration that the particular saints of each church , for whom the present community was only the trustee , would demand from their trustees a full account of their stewardship down to the most minute particulars . |
| 17 | For most of human history political domination in the shape of empires , hereditary rulers , aristocracies , has been largely taken for granted , notwithstanding sporadic revolts , so that Mosca 's ( 1896 ) observation that ‘ in all societies — from societies that are very meagrely developed and have barely attained the dawnings of civilization , down to the most advanced and peaceful societies — two classes appear — a class that rules and a class that is ruled ’ , is no more than the recognition of a historical and , as he says , ‘ obvious ’ fact . |
| 18 | Most of them have a very good knowledge of English , even down to the most obscure idiom , but they are not always fluent in expressing their ideas . |
| 19 | LIVERPOOL 'S Irish Sea trade has been strengthened as the port 's Coastal Container Line links in to the most modern container terminal in Britain . |
| 20 | Here 's a tough but effective way of honing in on the most meaningful elements of your life . |
| 21 | It 's thought by many to be the most beautiful of the Cuillin corries and takes the hillwalker in among the most impressive peaks . |
| 22 | A brisk antipodean , she moved with speed and efficiency , despite being weighed down by the most magnificent chest Amiss could remember ever seeing in real life . |
| 23 | In March 1922 ‘ snobbish clerks ’ on the Moscow Kursk line , which had been on of the most revolutionary , in 1905 and 1917 , were refusing to attend meetings where common signalman and the like were to be found . |
| 24 | Dave Sims opened Northampton up and prop Andy Deacon bulldozed through to score what could well turn out to be on of the most important tries of the season … |
| 25 | What you yo were trying to achieve is the expansion of the built up area towards the ring road , and thereby having built development hard up er as it is at the moment the ring road goes through for the most part open countryside on either side of it . |
| 26 | " [ The transfer in 1860 ] between the Goldsmiths ' Company and the Corporation was carried through with the most perfect agreement and accord . " |
| 27 | The misguided enthusiasm spilt over into the most prestigious of journals . |
| 28 | This is an interesting book even for non-Southern devotees as he takes us through from the most menial shunting operation with grimy British Rail survivors to sleek passenger workings with shiny green locomotives . |
| 29 | The vertebrate fossils could thus be arranged in a historical sequence running through from the most ancient to the most recent geological periods . |
| 30 | However , despite the best efforts of the BBC and other giant mass publishing houses to clog the best-seller lists with the epitome of semi-literate publishing , literacy keeps breaking through in the most unlikely places , and nearly always from American rather than British programmes . |