Example sentences of "[verb] the most [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We met the most morbid man in the world when we were there , he took us on a guided tour of all these famous murder sights — including the Dakota building where John Lennon got shot . ’ |
| 2 | We met the most morbid man in the world when we were there , he took us on a guided tour of all these famous murder sights — including the Dakota building where John Lennon got shot . ’ |
| 3 | In this day room we again met the most interesting folk . |
| 4 | Here he met the most notable trade unionists of the area , some of them with national reputations . |
| 5 | Large firms pursuing the most sophisticated levels of managerially-directed computer-control of production processes will confine traditional metal working skills to marginal remedial tasks . |
| 6 | I have consulted the most celebrated authors on comparative anatomy , but do not find any such structures of those parts described ; and as it is not known to you , I may presume that it has not been before taken notice of . |
| 7 | Last year , serious assaults soared by 45 per cent from 1991 , prompting Mr Sampson to warn the Tayside force not to be complacent in spite of a drive to target the most active criminals and make criminal intelligence more meaningful to beat bobbies . |
| 8 | Whereas other books ( especially those on semantics and pragmatics ) have often received unfavourable reviews , Style in Fiction has received the most favourable reviews of any book of which I have been an author . |
| 9 | ‘ It shows that students can reach standards of excellence that are capable of impressing the most critical judges . |
| 10 | In the next few months , Washington is going to try to transform the economic and regulatory environment of health care ( 13% of the economy ) , enact the most sweeping changes in the tax code since 1986 , lock into place a substantial reduction of the deficit and enact a five-year $165 billion ‘ investment ’ package in education , health care and infrastructure . |
| 11 | Government environmental and medical authorities in Northern Ireland , Britain , Germany , Holland , Belgium and the US have also been consulted and their advice has been incorporated in building the most modern asbestos using plant in the world . |
| 12 | Rolls-Royce , meanwhile , would concentrate on what it did best — building the most luxurious cars in the world . |
| 13 | One shop in the Isle of Man , which never did any stocktaking , unearthed the most wonderful collection of 1920s toys . |
| 14 | However , the communist revolution which involves the most radical change in property rights also involves ‘ the most radical rupture with traditional ideas ’ . |
| 15 | But the peculiar nature of the relationship between women and men means that women 's struggle for liberation is particularly delicate and difficult because it involves the most intimate facets of life and affects social and personal relations within the family . |
| 16 | ‘ We have , I believe , passed the most difficult point , ’ Mr Waigel said . |
| 17 | All over Paris people queued to buy a small bagful to heat their homes , and in the Rue de la Paix the most fashionable jeweller in Paris placed a lump of coal , surrounded by diamonds , in his window . |
| 18 | No definition is completely satisfactory , but any attempt at a definition must recognise that the pitch of the voice plays the most important part . |
| 19 | However , under the Community 's legislative procedures , it is the Commission which plays the most important role . |
| 20 | to extract and expound the most ordinary beliefs about the constitution of the world as pictured in the Elizabethan age and through this exposition to help the ordinary reader to understand and to enjoy the great writers of the age . |
| 21 | It 's good name for a band whose musical roots extend backwards and sideways through parents , grandparents , aunts and uncles in a maze that would throw the most diligent researcher . |
| 22 | Adam Smith made the most explicit statements in support of the idea that education improves the quality of labour and hence raises economic growth . |
| 23 | The hon. Member for Salisbury got to his feet and made the most amazing pronouncement in the two-day debate . |
| 24 | Don and Steven made the most accurate estimates of how long it would take Courtaulds InterSpray , the Group 's entry in the race , to reach Rio de Janeiro from Southampton on the first leg . |
| 25 | In the event , Ramsay himself made the most useful contributions to the debate , with the young Steward and Moray backing him , the Regent out of his depth and almost pathetically grateful for any guidance he could get . |
| 26 | Yet another senior parliamentary colleague , Ivan Lawrence , Member for Burton , a barrister and chairman of the party 's Home Affairs Committee , on 21 May 1992 made the most effective critique of the concept of subsidiarity that I have witnessed . |
| 27 | A very striking example of a philosopher dominated by the visual metaphor is Descartes , of all the one who made the most radical attempt to break away from the preconceptions of common experience and establish knowledge on purely rational foundations . |
| 28 | He beat the air with his hands and made the most heart-rending cries . |
| 29 | Teachers are probably more conscious of teaching knowledge and skills than they are of passing on attitudes , yet if , as former medical students themselves , they were to identify ideals in teaching the chances are that those ideals would be closely associated with one or two of their own teachers whose attitudes and behaviour made the most favourable impression at an impressionable age . |
| 30 | ‘ Not long ago , a cuckoo made the most almighty noise ever heard in Borrowdale . |