Example sentences of "[pers pn] the most [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The topic of cohesion … has always appeared to me the most useful constituent of discourse analysis or text linguistics applicable to translation .
2 For me the most dangerous aspect of the job has been not so much the very real dangers in the field as the psychological vertigo of alternating for months at a time between the utter extremes of the planet ; from the film markets of California 's Hollywood Hills , where I rented an A-frame , to the remotest jungles of the East .
3 To you 't is prison , to me that prison is like a garden ; to me the most absolute state of occupation ( with the world ) had become ( a state of spiritual ) freedom .
4 The Yorkshire crowd gave me the most overwhelming reception , you know .
5 ‘ I ca n't explain , but it gave me the most terrible feeling .
6 Colin Patterson on the other hand writes what is for me the most scholarly paper in the volume , pointing out that , from the transformed cladist point of view , the much discussed and abused term ‘ homology ’ actually refers to those characters that define natural groups of organisms and need have no evolutionary connotations .
7 Even if you think me the most immoral bastard ever to walk the face of the earth , why would you react so personally ?
8 She used to tuck me in at night and tell me the most wonderful stories . ’
9 Mlle Adjani , who has a 13-year-old son , Barnaby , by director Bruno Nuytten , wo n't talk about the relationship , but does say : ‘ He has great Irish charm and used to give me the most poetic gifts . ’
10 To make this claim plausible — a claim which , it seems to me , lies in a grey zone between the conceptual and the empirical — I wish first to offer what seems to me the most likely account of the evolution of syntactic structure .
11 Main made me the most incredible clothes .
12 This theory seems to me the most sophisticated method at present available of conceiving the relationship between musical forms and practices , on the one hand , and class interests and social structure , on the other ; more sophisticated , say , than the theories of homology put forward by some ethnomusicologists and subcultural theorists , which suggest the existence of structural ‘ resonances ’ , or homologies , between the different elements making up a socio-cultural whole. ; Such theories always end up in some kind of reductionism — ‘ upwards ’ , into an idealist cultural spirit , ‘ downwards ’ , into economism , sociologism or technologism , or by ‘ circumnavigation ’ , in a functionalist holism .
13 Paris remains for me the most exciting City in Europe .
14 For me the most important skill for the instructor is the ability to demonstrate exactly what you should be doing .
15 West Indies , for their part , are simply playing their own game and , since it has made them the most powerful team in the world , can not see why they should deprive themselves of their trump cards just because other countries can not produce trump cards of their own .
16 Moreover , the large number of coins which have survived and the way they have survived in hoards has made them the most datable objects from the ancient or medieval worlds that we possess .
17 The important thing though is that invited to the lunch are the top literary agents in London and therefore it 's an opportunity for these aspiring writers to meet top literary agents and of course , we 've got the biggest publisher in the U K there — Collins , and so it 's , what the awards all about entree ; giving access and extending a helping hand to twelve aspiring writers every year and giving them the most terrific flying start .
18 Their fondness for congregating in a Tokyo park on Sundays makes them the most visible target of discrimination .
19 He , in retaliation , has launched against them the most concentrated onslaughts that he has been able to devise .
20 ‘ I would rate them the most improved team in the land over the past year .
21 But they do n't ask them the most important question : does your husband love you ?
22 At first she thought it was like a watch-tower , because the roof sloped down to the tops of the two windows , making them the most important things .
23 At first the Romans consolidated their position in central Italy , moving north only in the third-century BC , when the battle of Mediolanum in 222 BC won them the most important city on the Lombardy Plain .
24 When the debt counsellors see them the most urgent task is sorting creditors into priority
25 The popularity of Hollywood films made them the most obvious indicator of the general shift in world trade .
26 You select those instruments which give you the most relevant information at the time .
27 Our ‘ tailor-made ’ classes , planned to your needs , air to give you the most effective results .
28 On Sat 28th , for instance , you can witness the explosive talent of guitarist Jan Cyrka , who has teamed up with bass virtuoso Pascal Mulot to bring you the most lethal double-act since Smith met Wesson .
29 It has been said that working in advertising will give you the most possible fun you can have with your clothes on , and the same might be said of sharedealing .
30 But er I 'll tell you the most dangerous thing a tin of peas , if you put it into your pot there 's sugar in it , if you look at that , the ingredients
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