Example sentences of "[noun pl] most [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the institutions most usually approached for funding here ( The Arts Council , RTE , Commercial business ) are n't clamouring to pour money into film , both Giannaris and Gibbons feel that with persistence and imagination ( albeit in voluminous quantities ! ) the now microscopic organism may eventually become multi-cellular . |
| 2 | The vegetables most commonly grown in the garden were also grown in the fields : these were the bean and the pea , the basic ingredients in most medieval peasant recipes . |
| 3 | Among them was Roger Perks , head teacher of Taverstock School in Birmingham , one of the authorities most strongly opposed to opting out . |
| 4 | Consisting originally of 326 items , the collection was assembled by Thomas Coke , who acquired the majority of the drawings in Rome between 1714 and 1716 ; so they represent the work of artists most highly regarded in Italy at that time — dominant masters in Rome of the high Baroque . |
| 5 | Usually the classes and groups most adversely affected by soil erosion are politically weak , disunited and spatially separated . |
| 6 | Yet the poem stands apart from the attitudes most commonly expressed in her work , and , given its obscurity , it is necessary to be cautious with respect to its specific meaning . |
| 7 | There are , to be sure , competing and contradictory images most clearly seen in militarized public demonstrations , but these are frequently and misleadingly labelled as the activities of student radicals or Red Army factions . |
| 8 | The " mosaic units phenomenon , observed by Moore , and proposed as a " spontaneous occurrence of order from randomly selected particles " offers further corroboration : certain sizes of tesserae and motifs are shown to provide maximum adaptability of design , because they are proportional to the abstract units most frequently produced by " processes of spontaneous ordering " . |
| 9 | The rate of accumulation in those branches most closely tied to investment ( machinery , metals , construction ) reached 25–35 per cent per year , implying a doubling of the capital stock every three years or less . |
| 10 | If artists have to address the fact that AIDS-sufferers shuffle off this mortal coil faster than most of the rest of humanity , perhaps the arts most closely linked to the body can express the idea best . |
| 11 | The simplest large intestines , exhibiting a vestigial caecum and no sacculations , are found in the rat , cat , and dog , which are the animals most frequently used in studies on colonic motor function . |
| 12 | The birth control methods most commonly used by working class families were as readily available in 1870 as they were in 1950 . |
| 13 | The prefixes most commonly used in this way are Kars , Indo and Mori . |
| 14 | The doubts most clearly arose over the question of Idi Amin 's expulsion of the Ugandan Asians in the summer of 1972 . |
| 15 | From these profiles it will be established which , if any , indicators most clearly differentiate between groups at different income levels . |
| 16 | The labels most readily ascribed to an older person are ‘ demented ’ or ‘ senile ’ . |
| 17 | The bones most recently found in the docks will be reburied . |
| 18 | Following the announcement by CEGB in 1980 of five sites to be investigated as possible locations for a new nuclear power station in South West England , the investigator surveyed the attitudes and beliefs concerning energy issues , and nuclear power in particular , held by residents of the communities most closely affected by these proposals . |
| 19 | On closer examination , however , it was immediately clear that Franco did not trust the Falangists in the areas most closely related to the exercise of real power ( i.e. to the control of the force of arms ) : all three defence Ministries were in the hands of military men well known for anti-Falangist political sympathies . |
| 20 | In most cases this has meant that steel fences and wire grilles have been built around the Ends and the areas most frequently occupied by young visiting supporters . |
| 21 | However , there was a significant absence of such discontent in East Anglia and Kent , two of the areas most severely affected in 1381 ( 78 , p.145 ) . |
| 22 | Delegates discussed ways of compensating 50 Third-World countries most seriously affected by the Gulf crisis and criticized the international community for failing to respond adequately to the consequences of the economic blockade of Iraq . |
| 23 | There is no evidence that the court circle in East Anglia , including those elements most closely identified with the queen , was inimical to Gloucester , or that the duke regarded them as rivals for power in the region . |
| 24 | There is no evidence that the court circle in East Anglia , including those elements most closely identified with the queen , was inimical to Gloucester , or that the duke regarded them as rivals for power in the region . |
| 25 | The most outspoken supporters of these methods , such as John Holt would argue that learning involves activity , one of the elements most obviously lacking in a classroom dominated by ‘ chalk , talk and writing ’ . |
| 26 | Mr Wood said he had gone to investigate after people had been seen in the area with bull terriers , the dogs most commonly used for fighting badgers . |
| 27 | An omen that more conservative counsels might yet prevail was given within weeks of the promulgation of the Emancipation Statute when the Tsar dismissed the officials most closely identified with reform , headed by Lanskoy and his deputy ‘ Nicholas Miliutin . |
| 28 | In practice , cooperation in British libraries most often centres upon interloans , information services , shared cataloguing , and the mutual promotion of each other 's resources . |
| 29 | In the past year , Ross has fired the two curators most closely associated with the Whitney of the 1980s . |
| 30 | The walls of the buildings most commonly consisted of a single row of vertical timber planks or baulks with wattle panels inserted into grooves down their edges . |