Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the most " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's very amusing , and you 've explained it amusingly to us , but er , there 's a lot of truth , I think in er , what you say and er how can we , er make the best of these unwelcome guests who insist on turning up at the most inopportune times , when we 're trying to enjoy ourselves . |
| 2 | The field for the 1986 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe was the strongest the race had offered for years , adding up to the most valuable collection of bloodstock ever assembled fur a single race in Europe . |
| 3 | However , despite the best efforts of the BBC and other giant mass publishing houses to clog the best-seller lists with the epitome of semi-literate publishing , literacy keeps breaking through in the most unlikely places , and nearly always from American rather than British programmes . |
| 4 | For in a few days , this same man would be reporting back to the most feared woman in Britain . |
| 5 | Here 's a tough but effective way of honing in on the most meaningful elements of your life . |
| 6 | The vertebrate fossils could thus be arranged in a historical sequence running through from the most ancient to the most recent geological periods . |
| 7 | Of course , that sort of thing has a really limited audience and , because we were living in Hawaii , there was nobody there to watch us anyway , so we were coming up with the most insane stuff we could do , basically just to please ourselves ! |
| 8 | There are substantial grounds for regarding opting out as the most radical and successful experiment in state schooling for 30 years . |
| 9 | At the same time , however , he earned massive public support for standing up to the most widely feared and despised Soviet institution . |
| 10 | And when you think of a man earning about at the most two pounds ten shillings a week , one and sixpence was quite a sizable amount out of it , but eventually he paid it all off . |