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

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1 What I have always said is that way you set up supervision behind the programme is the most crucial , so therefore if I can sit down and help them to set up the most strenuous type of supervision to go along with the equipment , then they feel safe and the community feel safer that none of them will go out and commit another crime .
2 They also say it was government research which slipped back the most between 1973 and 1981 and that industry needs to be allowed to make profits before upping R&D .
3 Stephen Greenblatt 's self-confessional epilogue to his Renaissance Self-Fashioning which appeared in 1980 articulated a change of emphasis which marked out the most pronounced critical practice of Renaissance literary criticism in the past decade — the New Historicism .
4 In 1710 he was visited by the noted German traveller Conrad von Uffenbach , who sought out the most eminent instrument makers in London .
5 ‘ Are n't you missing out the most likely possibility ? ’ he said .
6 To his astonishment , Johnson yelled angrily at him and there broke out the most serious row the pair is reported ever to have had in their long association .
7 They sought out the most profitable lines produced in the most efficient of their plants operating with the cheapest labour available .
8 Commission officials say that they sought out the most talented people in each field , regardless of gender or race .
9 THEY thought it was all over at the BBC 21 years ago when they switched off the most famous football commentating voice of all , Kenneth Wolstenholme .
10 In the spring of 1942 they carried out the most effective sabotage raid of modern times , destroying the St Nazaire ( French coast ) battleship dock and preventing the Tirpitz — the most powerful battleship then afloat — from moving to this possible base for raids on American troop and weapon convoys .
11 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 . ’
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