Example sentences of "[verb] the most [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ It shows that students can reach standards of excellence that are capable of impressing the most critical judges . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Rolls-Royce , meanwhile , would concentrate on what it did best — building the most luxurious cars in the world . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Adam Smith made the most explicit statements in support of the idea that education improves the quality of labour and hence raises economic growth . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He beat the air with his hands and made the most heart-rending cries . |
| 14 | In the event , it was the Prime Minister who made the most personal attacks on her challenger in a series of last minute newspaper interviews . |
| 15 | Our costume designer was a cleaner at the town hall ; a wonderful woman called Fran who made the most wonderful costumes . |
| 16 | Even using the most advanced chips commercially available and the most powerful text compression algorithms , there is insufficient capacity to store even the simplest images let alone animations or video . |
| 17 | Our research stations are constantly using the most advanced techniques to evaluate and improve products and systems for the benefit of all our customers . |
| 18 | We must also check that software used on RBGE equipment is virus-free , is being used for official purposes , and that we are using the most recent versions . |
| 19 | to set objectives and plan programmes , designed to satisfy identified needs using the most effective methods , |
| 20 | Cornelia Knight has been lifted out of the category of femininity in which woman is famed for her ‘ beauty ’ , itself an effect of class ( food , clothes , health ) and an attempt is being made , using the most canonised resources of western art to imag(in)e for us a combination of femininity and intellectuality . |
| 21 | British nurses were among the best trained in Europe but — thanks to the restrictive practices of the medical profession — were given the most limited responsibilities . |
| 22 | She had always been given the most unpleasant tasks to perform , punished when she rebelled , as often she did , growing up without knowledge of love or hearing the sound of a kind word . |
| 23 | A precedent for this was years ago when the famous collector of Greek origin , George Kostakis , was allowed to leave the Soviet Union with a considerable part of his collection of Russian Avant-garde after he had given the most interesting pieces to the Tretyakov Gallery ( for part of his memoirs , see The Art Newspaper , No. 21 , October 1992 , pp. 20–22 ) . |
| 24 | Even when , after several hours , the majority of emigrants had set off , a group of young men wearing track suits remained in darkness at the back of the embassy , helping the most recent arrivals over the railings . |
| 25 | Chemists now know this is untrue , but they remain the most unreactive substances . |
| 26 | Bob was taken round the various barns which held the winter fodder and together he and George rode the most advantageous trails , which would get the ewes down from the heights most speedily . |
| 27 | There is no consensus view as to what constitutes the most desirable traits but qualities such as intelligence , initiative , self-confidence , enthusiasm are regularly featured in studies . |
| 28 | Like the labour movement in its formative period — like Chartism , or the early trade unions , or the utopian communities — the social movements of the 1960s were movements of liberation seeking an adequate doctrine and mode of political action to combat the most oppressive features of the societies in which they developed ; thus they directed their activities variously against colonial rule , domination by external economic powers , the rule of feudal-military elites , ethnic subordination , the subjection of women , or the domination of society by a rigid , centralized and bureaucratic apparatus . |
| 29 | The NI has campaigned consistently over the years for more emphasis to be placed on primary health care than on expensive technological options — in other words for local people to be trained to combat the most basic diseases , as in China 's revolutionary ‘ barefoot doctor ’ system . |
| 30 | I popped in for a short while to the Scottish Gallery in Cork Street , to see the most recent sculptures by Gerald Laing . |