Example sentences of "[be] most [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 This in itself was unusual , as the high-ranking patrons would have been expected to display classical scenes in their houses , leading to the supposition that these intimate portraits of courtesans were most probably on view only in the private apartments .
2 It is at the level of explanation that the sexism of sociolinguistics is most blatantly on display , and I want to concentrate on it in the remainder of this section .
3 Such accusations lie not with counselling , but with a kind of primitive logic which associates pain with whatever is most closely at hand .
4 As to ‘ its effect upon national character ’ , Pearson thought that ‘ whether we are changing in the direction of a higher or lower morality is … the point that is most really at issue ’ .
5 It was most probably of timber construction , and a building of this type continued until the Norman period .
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