Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] the most " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found it odd that they were building on the most exposed and inconvenient site on the hill , though the view was no doubt prodigious . |
| 2 | Other items of diet , including eggs , vegetables , meat and water , were examined in the most contaminated regions , but it was decided that there was no appreciable health hazard from these foodstuffs and hence that there was no need to implement bans on them . |
| 3 | The pages were crisp and white and were filled with the most marvellous pictures of animals wearing clothes . |
| 4 | The kitchen had one small window , the parlour two , one looking out over Brodick Bay , the other inland ; joined to this main building were various outhouses , each having a door , a window , a box-bed , a small deal table , a candlestick , and a wash-basin of its own : these were let for the most part to single gentlemen , though now and again she had also lady lodgers . |
| 5 | They were confined for the most part to the close proximity of the waterways and some parts of the country hardly knew them at all . |
| 6 | This was interpreted variously but making secondary education free , providing better facilities and raising the school leaving age were seen as the most obvious means to that end . |
| 7 | And standing on the pinnacle of course of this process of evolution erm er who were living in the most advanced societies and so on . |
| 8 | Three were selected as the most important : freedom , rationality and manipulability . |
| 9 | Finer grades ( such as Parian or Pentelic ) were used for the most important statuary , and lower-quality and more local marble , mainly from south-western Turkey , was used for the main architectural building blocks of the monument . |
| 10 | These articles were drawn from the most recent issues . |
| 11 | By contrast the prehistoric men of Europe were settled in the most fertile and advantageous areas of the country and did not have to fear more technologically advanced enemies . |
| 12 | Training administrators must get to know their members better in order to ensure that courses were provided at the most convenient time — this might mean narrowing the training period down to 3 or 4 weeks in the year . |
| 13 | From a record entry of 30 business plans , six were identified as the most promising and went forward to the final where they were interviewed by an experienced panel of judges . |
| 14 | It was the first two which carried most force and were backed by the most extensive social research . |
| 15 | The latest talks with Koresh were described as the most positive since 2 March , when he said he would walk out of the compound if an hour-long tape was broadcast . |
| 16 | During the Han period expression was given to the most vital of human concerns . |
| 17 | In experiments on the colon ( colonic transit ) , one cannula was positioned in the postcaecal portion of the colon ; a second cannula was placed in the most distal part of the colon that was accessible at the time of laparotomy . |
| 18 | During the course of May the government of South Korea was shaken by the most serious unrest since President Roh Tae Woo came to power in 1988 . |
| 19 | This latter business was undertaken in the most difficult financial circumstances and , even after the newly founded Bank of England had taken over from Herne , it was his credit that kept the artillery train in Flanders from starving late in 1694 . |
| 20 | He made his début for Essex in 1930 and during the 1930s was regarded as the most effective amateur bowler in English first-class cricket . |
| 21 | Second , in many communities where it was treasured at the most sophisticated level it was an exotic , even in some cases a mysterious substance , only to be secured from a distance . |
| 22 | Now the sky above Dividal was filled with the most glorious Lights I had ever seen , a shimmering waterfall of green light . |
| 23 | In no time at all the air was filled with the most appalling racket : croaking , hissing , squawking , mewling , quacking , squeaking , creaking , peeping , squealing , and hooting ! |
| 24 | Who the other call was to Jihan has never revealed , but it is certain that it must have been someone of the highest importance , and that her purpose was to obtain from the most authoritative source possible some outside indication of what was happening in Egypt . |
| 25 | Reading was voted as the most popular way of relaxing and getting to sleep . |
| 26 | As I squatted on the grass at the entrance to the trench , the stillness of the evening was shattered by the most awesome sound . |
| 27 | There was a time when in railroad terminal architecture it was considered as the most necessary adjunct ( or evil ) . |
| 28 | Two-thirds was owned by the most wealthy 10% . |
| 29 | She followed him into a tiny , brightly lit room that was suffused with the most delectable scents of cooking . |
| 30 | While the secret garden was returning to life , a man with high , crooked shoulders was wandering round the most beautiful places in Europe . |